Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 19, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 146 AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE HAS FAILED N ITS OBJEGTIVE In the Venetain Alps the Invaders Are Stalled By the Resistance of the Allies ATTACKS HAVE BEEN QUICKLY REPULSED e g The Allied Troops Have Delivered Counter-Attacks, Regained Lost Ground and Inflicted Heavy Casualties on the Enemy—All Along the Piave River From the Mountain Passes to the Adriatic Sea Fierce Fighting Is Going On —On the Montello Plateau the Italians Have Strength- ened Their Positions Barring the Way to the Venetian Plains—Austrian War Office claims the Capture of 30,- 000 Men and 120 Guns—The Allies Have Taken 5,000 Prisoners—Iinfantry Operations on the Battle Front in France Continue Virtually at a Standstill—Several At- tempts By the Germans to Penetrate the American Lines in the Marne Sector Have Been Smashed By the Ameri- can Gun Fire, The Austrian pincers are not closing jany gains of ground in the mountain upon Italy with the precision of last|region, saying that all their counter- attacks were repulsed. Italian armies of General Cadorna| <Concerning the fighting along the from the Julian Alps to the Piave river | Piave it asserts that the Austrians have gaineq ground points and that the battle is following its intended course. the gains on the Montello plateau and The upper jaw in the Venetian Alps | progress on the southern wing, which runs from Fossalta to Mestre, are October, when they forced back the and from the northern mountain re- gions almost to the plains of Venetia. In fact, they do not seem to be closing at all. is stalled under the resistance of the British, French and Italian forces, and | claimed. the nether one secms to lack the force necessary to bring it across the Piave river and push back the Italian troops which are clogging its path. unable further to advance their lines since their initial onslaught last week. sector eastward to the Piave river all their attacks have been quickly re- pulsed by the allieq troops, who, in |5,000 their turn, have delivered counter- Unofficial advices are to the effect that the Austrians have thrown 14 bridges across the Piave along a front of about 14 1-2 miles between the }hnm loop. and the Conegliano rail- attacks, regained lost terrain, inflict- ed heavy casualties on the enemy and taken a considerable number of pris oners. g Ali along the Piave river, froni the. mountain passés through which the torrent wends its way southward on its race to the Adriatic sea, fierce|their gunfire. fighting is going on, especially on the Montello plateau; in the region of the famous Zenson loop and further south|a ta standstill, from Fossalta to tihe marsh country around Capo Sile, some twenty miles east of Venice. that the enemy everywhere is being} bars the way from the northeast to the Venetian plains, the Italians have northern edge of the plateau and re- pulsed two enemy attacks to advance on the northern border. Likewise to the south near Maserada and Candelu attempts by the Austrigns to effect new crossings of the Piave were frus- trated with heavy losses. From Vienna comes a variant re- port. It does not concede to the allies — e e e SHOE OPERATIVES REQUEST COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL. 20 PER CENT WAGE INCREASE RAID BY AMERICANS WAS Dozen Captured Seventeen Germans|Petition to Be and Two Machine Guns. Paris, June "American Pep,” La Liberte recouants 1 nincident on a “quiet” sector occu- few days’ training in the trenches, it was decided to carry out a little raid | days. under the direction of a French sub- lieutenant. The raid was completely successful, all the enemy being killed or taken prisoner. some time to the destruction of ma- chine gun emplacements and dugouts. ‘But when the time came to return it was discovered that a dozen Ameri- |facturers. cans were missing. They could not possibly have been captured, si the leader of the party decided to wait a few minutes. Soon the missing men reappeared, escorting seventeen Ger- mans and carrying two machine guns. They explained that the raid was a sort of lesson which they had master- ed so guickly that they had gone on and entergd the German second line and brought back some samples of prisoners, to demonstrate their apt- ENTITLED TO RECEIVE $10 Widow of Charles W. Cranney, Who Was Murdered in a Hotel in Boston. Boston, June 18.—The widow of |stitute. Charles W. Cranney, formerly head waiter at the Hotel Essex, who was murdered in the dining room of the Lotel in August, 1916, by Stellianos Zacharachi, a discharged waiter, is entitled to receive the benefits of the ruling of the industrial accident board teday. rel. but =olely by reason of Cranney’s employment as head waiter, his widow is entitied to receive a payment of $10 2 week for 400 weeks. ARMY LABORATORIES TO BE TRANSFERRED TO YALE try and Bacteriology. New Haven, Conn, June 18—An- Gene: rouncement was made by the Yale training of the personnel for all of the mobile laboratories in the Amer- month from Leavenworth, Kansas, (o ACCUSED OF STEALING was brought here Mass. The men were arrested here. " Linquist is said to have declared he was going to Mexico to sell his booty to German agents. Linquist and Burt admit the which, it was said, covered a period of four years. The men are charged th getting employment in airplune, mu-l“, pitions and arms factories, worl them for a short time and suddenly; decamping with the stolen propert: emplo: Consolidation of In addition, the Austrian war office says the number of prisoners taken in the fighting has increased to 30,000 ; and that 120 guns, in addition to mine In the Alps the ‘Austrians have been | throwers, machine guns and war mafe- rial, have been captured. The prison- ers taken by the Italians Monday at Everywhere from the Asjago plateau|one point aggregated 1,550, which would bring their total and those of the allies well in the neighborhood of Wway bridge, but that the Halians are heavily engaging the enemy points and have the pontoons under The infantry operations on the bat- tle front in France continue virtually but the allied and German guns are roaring on various sectors and it is not improbable that fighting on a large scale will be re- The TItalian war office announces |sumed somewhere shortly. Ancre, south of Albert and west of held along the Piave. On the crucial | Serre, the British sector of the Montello plateau, wiiich | engaged in mighty while spirited acti along the French sectors near Mont- strengthened their positions on the| didier and between Montdidier and the Aisne. The French continue daily te regain ground taken from them in the recent German offensive south of the Aisne and also to take prisoners in_their enterprises. Several attempts by #e Germans to penetrate the American lines Marne sector have been smashed by the Aemrican machine gun fire, and Germans are is noticeable urged to invest one day's wages each month for the next six months in War S: Presented to the Brockton Shoe Manufacturers. —Under the heading| Brockton, Mass., June 18.—A re- quest for a 20 per cent increase for nearly 12,000 operatives will be pre- pied by American troops. After a|sefited to the Brockton Shoe Manu- facturers association within A committee of businessagents of several labor unions announced to- day that they would tender the re- quest in behalf of all classes -of oper- taken pr ey fop | 2tives except the outters whose inter- ; e raiding party devoted itself for |ests are being looked after by their} own executive board. Contracts for |4 U-BOAT DESTROYED BY more than 2,000,000 paire ¢ shoes are being filled by local manu- | ST IR (N iPasnnge.-s Pe;c SERVICE MEDAL PRESENTED TO GOVERNOR M'CALL By the National Institute of Social Sciences. Boston, July 18.—A liberty service| medal was presented to Governor Mc- Call today by the National Institute of Social Sciences. ness. companying the medal said it was given in recognition of the foresight of the governor in- making ready for war, in calling a conference of New A WEEK FOR 400 WEEKS |England governors, when war was de- 5 g PR clared and in supplying meang communication between the soldiers and their families. Taft is honorary president of the in- A statement ac- the mouth of Chesapeake Eas shelter in response to warnings anchored near an American subma; officers of the vessel stated. ~An inte change of wireless messages follow in which the submarine crew is re- ported to have told of its victory The U-bcat was sighted while the American craft was patroiling with jonly her periscope visible. ageording |, ito the story. ithing range a torpedo was released, and tv onds later microphones rec rific explosion. Rising to the surface the American submarine on the Jookout for survi coming to the surface was the only trace of the vanquished r = Former President GRACE LUSK SENTENCED TO NINETEEN YEARS: For the Murder of Mrs. Mary New-| workmen’s compensation act, by a man Roberts. Wankesha, Wis., The board finds that as the shooting | Lusk, who was found guilty of mur- not arise out of a personal quar- |der in the second degree for slaying Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, wife of Dr. David Roberts, former state vet- erinarian, today was declared by a board of alienists to be sane and was sentenced by Judge Martin Lueck to nineteen years imprisonment, IN COMMAND OF THE ALLIED Training Will Be Mainly in Chemis- FORCES IN THE NEAR EAST. PERIOD FIXED FOR MILITARY ‘Wilson in a proclamation tod: the period between 7 a. m. Ju 9 p. m., September 3rd for the y | tration for military duty o! me Alaska who have reacied ik jority since Sept 2, 1917. ernor of Alaska is authe: a tablish registration places and to point officials to carry out the provis- ions of the selective sel General Franchet d’Esperey Succeeds | Guillaumat, rporation today that, at the request| Athens, Greecs, e of the surgeon-general's office, the | Franchet d’Esperey has been appoint- ed commander-in-chief of the allied forces in the near east in succession ican army will be transferred next|to General Guillaumat, who has been made military governor of Paris. Gen- Yale university. About 250 men are|eral Franchet d’Esperey was tendered ed. Training will be mainly in!a luncheon today by Premier Venizelos . chemistry and bacieriology. of Greece. June 18.—General nlanation for a rainy day. lo19 NORWICH, CON Cabled Paragraphs Admiral Paget Dead. London, June 18.—Admiral Sir‘Al- fred Paget died suddenly l;zt night. Admiral Sir ‘Alfred (Wyndh: was a son of the late General Lord Alfred Henry Paget and was March 20, 1852. ) Paget FROM MUNITIONS PLANTS Three Men and a Woman Taken into Custody Had All Important Parts of Browning Gun. New York, June 18.—Three men and a woman were taken into custody to- day and accused of stealing from mu- nitions plants throughout the country plans and blueplints valuable to the American and allied governments. They were* charged with violating the espl act. Gus Linquist, a draughtsman, Leo Burt, a stationary engineer, and Franz Strohmier, said to be an enemy alien, were the names of the three men as given by the authorities. Pending! further investigation, they would not identify the woman being held in con- nection with the alleged thievery. She| Admini from Worcester, | According to the authoritics, both One of the allegedly stolen plans was identified by an official of the Reming- ton Arms Company of Bridgeport. | Conn;, as a Browning gun bluep which had been stolen from the Rem ington plant. Linquist and Burt, it was charged, also had rifled among other places the drafting rooms of Allen and Loone, De- | troit; the Simplex Motor Company and the Mehl Manufacturing Company, of Roseile, N. J. Strohmier, whose real name is Er- nest Frank was interned as an enemy tected iles in plants where they were| @ blueprints of gun equipment® and motors. The drawings seizedj when th were arrested, they said, ! were copies which they made after | taking the originals hcme from the factories, to which they were later re- turned. The prisoners admitted they had made working dra ing heavy mach'ne gun, French air- plane motors, airplane parts, sgun sights and time fuses. They offered no explantion of their possession of virtually all the important parts of a Browning gun. vings of the Brown- 50,000 WORKERS IN STATE FOR W. S. S. DRIVE 60 Per Cent. of Adults Will Give Towns Perfect Enroliment. Hartford, Conn., Ju Throughout the entire length and breadth of Connecticut, enthusiastic responses are in evidence evervwhere regarding plans now under way for National War Savings Enlistment Day, according to announcement made by Howell Cheney, State Director for the Connecticut National War Savings Committee. Beginning this week a force of approximately 50.000 patriotic War Savings workers will begin tak- ing the most -thorough and compre- hensive house to house canvass ever undertaken in the state of Connecti- cut. Everywhere wage earners are being ngs Stamps. ctories, - stores, insurance comryé nies other commercial organizations are lending enthusiastic support. The state director has set a quota of 60 per cent. of the adults in each community as a perfect enrollment and effort is being made therefore, to secure 1,000,000 adult war savers in Connecticut. 1,000,000 pledged cards have been distributed in every city, town and rural community. These pledges will be taken by the house to house canvassers and everywhere as- surance has been given that Connec- ticut will again og over the top. The quota of the state assigned by the treasury department of War Sav- ings Stamps to be sold during the present year is $26,000.000. Up to the present time over $4,000,000 have heen sold. The state director is confident after the results of Registration Day AN AMERICAN SUBMARINE | tic ! por; ship Bri: An Atlantic Port. June 18. iman subroarine was destroyed { American submarine off the Vir !coast several days ago, according to {a report broughi here today by pas-| sengers aboard an American ‘steam- ship. The crew of the U-boat perish- ed, according to the report. Officers of the vessel gclaimed t¢ have becn told the story of the combat by mem- bers of the American submarin crew. The American lner had pu ircied about ors, but o REGISTRATION IN ALASKA For Men Who Have Reached Their Majority Since Sept. 2, 1917, ‘Washington, Jmme —President e law. The wise prophet lays up an ex- Reguatos Fr h Conservation of Beef the Americansin Prison - Gamps in Germany AN ADDITIONAL LIST OF EIGHTY- mentary estimates of $63,235000 for | guns. born ( UNTIL THE EARLY FALL Roast Beef on Mondays, Boiled Beef | at the Midday Hartford, Conn. June 18.—A plani 10 conserve beef until the early fall'list of ty-four Amer having been put into cffect, a question ! i - ! arose as to uniformity of rezulations, ican Red Cross was announced tonigh the national food #dministra- Dy the war department. Most of t nt a’ message to federal food men named previousiy had been r ator Robert Scoville, sug- |Ported as missing by General Per- B 3N E""l“ghd:mgi}n fhic three of whom we cef. 2 Me eati c o-| Eight officers, three of w! vi el B serving with Irench and English fiy- | Vanderbil's L ing squadrons, are includeq in the list. ! gesting unifornti The Regulations. | S i The regulations will be: Roast heef | They are: = . - o hot or ‘cold will ‘he served | Capiain George C. Frecland, West-| heflS1 only on Mondays at the midday meal; aturdays at v form, hamburger, on_Thursdays cnlv at the midday meal. liver: food administration does not tise the day the regulations. tention focussed on those which beef is served and thereby in- crease the consumption of beef. Violators Will Lose License. with the notice will have j Mmal A letter to all public eating places| outlining the beef regulations will he sent out by Mr BROOKLYN ROAD CHARGED WITH “INEXCUSABLE NEGLECT”: In Employing Women Conductors a Young as 14 Years. New York, June 18.—Charging the! ooklyn Rapid Transit company wit! conductors as young as “detrimental jury here today urged the immediate enactment - of legislation “‘to protect| manhood “of ‘the the :gelf-respec Ty, The inquisitors, afts 1 tion covering several weeks, reported|Philadelphia: Carl Sudock, 470 Oak that the street raijway company had street, New Haven, Conn.; Arnold D.| hired women of questionable character | Umoa, Middletown, Conn. “‘an investiga- and drug addicts and that they often were required to work more than ten|- Ao ioior Thomas Buffum tErench The conditions at the| ,iiation service); no address; Ser- geants Harold W. Tucker, Providence, o R. I; Daniel Brandon, Putnam, N i eral and partieularly as affecting many | \oianica John F. Cronin, 102 Main street, Portland, Conn.; August H': Chapman, Colchester, Conn.: Peter | Plant, Quincy, Mass.; Corporal Edwin W. Barnes, West Haven, Conn.; Pri- vates Frank J. Aliano, Bristol, Conn.; hpurs a day. car barns, the grand jjury sal ‘were “injurious to the community n gen- decent and self-respecting women now employed or desiring employment by the railway -companies.” Admitting that the war imposes. in- dustrial hardships on all classes, thai findings stated that, despite them, ‘i these eritical times advantage should : i 4 3 not be taken of labor conditions. but | Sntkonik, Webster, Mass.; Percival . all emplovers, whether individual or| corporate, should be ing the best of service.” violation of ‘existing law had been| however great, would warrant the continuance of the conditions revealed. no exigency, NEW RATES ON EXPORT IMPORT FREIGHT On a Basis of Over 25 Per Cent. In- crease to Become Effective July 25, Washington,- June 18. Springs, Y, Dor- and import freight. on: a' basis| oesies Mase. Desens O atmienor New rates on of something over 25 per cent. increase jover ‘existing. rates -was ordered today | Charlestown; Mass.; Teodore have been counted that pledges|by the railroad administration to..be- amcunting to many millions of dollars come effective next July 25. wil: be secured. modifies the recent rate orders which if N Daniel E. Sala, cancelled existing export and import tarifis and dpplied domestic rates to { that traffic 1t was found. that domes- rates applied to exports and im- ris in many cases were unreasonably hizh. Jf carried oug, the order would {have provided for many increases of 300 and 400 per cent. This | Conn. the railroad ad-| . o specific Corporal 'Gzorge D. McHugh. 109 tion “has drafted’ a Ta i . % i e and Tyler street, New Haven, Conn.: Pri scale- of rates to apply on expo; Most of these are more than-present s run_ far above Representatives of. the rail; ministration. in. conference - this. week | Waseka . Minn.; i i traffic| Leesburg, Va rs will frame new. regulations | Bowmar aven: Tsal passenger mileage,. good At Landshut. the United States at the hgé“:‘:: Lloyd W.- Litchfield. Needham, Mass. Ithough many SENATE AMENDMENT : 5 5 > i At Camps, Names Not Known. DE.FEAT.ED IN HOb.!E! ~ Captain Howard Francis Kane, Ma- Canferring Rank. of Lieutenant Gen- | Chias, Mec.. Corporal Arthur F. John- jerai on Commandant of Marine Corps. 8.—Tbe -house 72 to 44 rejected lgAPPOmTED DIRECTOR OF mendment to - the naval-ap-i QUARTERMASTER PURCHASES ' z bil! conferring the rank. of | oA genera) on, the .comman ,“a-lcmml George F. e marine corps and creating (the rank of major general for.two Of | Lo Oytnel- Wpod, the corps staff officers. Defeat of the amendment follk | spirited ' debate charges nett. commafldmnlnt og ththcori:;.l had started a campaign for the end- & i £ ‘ment as soon as the naval bill was W vy SHmadier Sheamel By sent to the sénate by the house sev- ‘eral weeks ago. .PERSONAL TAX OF STATE oA e “ail | Orleans State. of or marine corps of !taken two weel TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS FOUR REPORTED Wednesdays ‘and ~Saturdays, Steak | - H. Chapman of Colchester and Arthur ', on Thursdays, All i | Number From Connecticut. ! Washinston, June 18 Barnard J. Gallagher, V ek on ! ville, Conn.; Second Lieutenant E | Melv Howard M. Garton, Providencs George L. Hawley, Hartfor At Darmstadt. Vincent Allen, ‘Norwalk, Conn. William R. Hier, Bristol, William Hopke, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Thomas A. Lysett, Providence, R. 1 ski, 61' Crown street, Union Perlmutter, North Providence, R. 1.; I Waverly: L. Everett, Mass. At Giessen. vates Louis J. Goldman, Philadelphi At Villingen. d od-{ Lieutenants Bernard J. Gallagher, . McKeesport, Pa. Flying. corp (Frenck aviation service). J. Milan, "South ‘Boston, Mass. 2 Washington, June 18-—-Appointment owed 8ot . Colone! George I. Downey as di- vere rector of quartermaster purchases !were made that Major General Bar- | it;" sypervision over methods and policies of purchasing, was announced quartermaster here, will - direct the 8 OFFICERS INCLUDED Adillard Barbeau of Danielson, August An additional ns reporied renditure durinz the current fina n German prisen camps by the Amer- yuuarter was 6,848,000 pounds. , Minn. Lieutenant William H. Jenkins, Lees jburg, Va.; IMirst Lieutenant Elmer D. ! | Mackey, McKeesport, Pa.; Aviatori“an early peace without indemnity.” | Y, Py-products | mhomas Buftun, French aviation ser dneys, brains and tripe, may Fipeheno address A i\l ward A. Kocenne, Rochester, N. Y.;| Sergeants Eugene F. Sharkey, 26 Koot Every public eating place is expect- | &venue, Ansonia, Conn.; Waiter J. ed to comply with the rezulations on | Reynolds, 502 Orcharq street, New a voluntary basis and in case of vio- |Haven, Conn. lation the food administration 3 give public notice through the newspa- : Barry, Olive sireet and Grand ers and will notify dealers to stop | tue, New Haven, Conn.; J ensed dealer who does ; 84ne, Orange, Conn.; Harold Berg- ; 1 Tow! s w Haven; n, | Erving A. Dresser, Bristol, Conn.; Corporais Thomas F. Jack Bath- briola, tol, Conn.; Privates Adil- | ilard Barbeau, Danielson, Conn.: Lester! ! Bigelow, 749 Dixwell avenue, New | Albert Decsi, Lrooklyn, ! z. Antoine J. Gasznon, Dristol, g | : Raymond C. Kiroy, 50 Wolcott New Haven, Conn.; John| nudson, 23 Reed street, New Haven, | A1l e 3 Srploying | Conn.: Joseph. P, Leary, 14 Warwicki coopment is pooled 14 | street, Middletown, Conn.; William J. vears and subjecting them - to-condi- | Lilly, Southington, Conn.; Harold E. to their physical | Masterson, Stamford, Conn.; John A. mental and moral well being,” a ;rmll\iurpm‘. Amesbury, Mass.; Claude J. 1 | ishe Nejson, Bristol,.: Conn.; - Michael M. Olje, . Pequabuck, Conn.; Herman| Reichman, - Philadelphia; - Joseph = A. .{Roach, Ridgefield, “Conn.; Earl C. Rodgers, Danville, Vt.; Louis Sandler, Barnes, West Haven, Conn.; William Cardwell, Cranston, R, L; Harry C. compelled by | . 5 PN, ¥ suitable and adequate legislation 0| Gaacroge e hor i, C s provide for the health and morals of | walter Chimiel Brooklyn, N. Y.; Les their women workers, thereby i"s“r',l}ir R C(lark’ Et ortu(g str‘elet, e‘?;' The opinion declared that while no | Giooa” avoms Mawe® Havon Vel 593 Ernest de Martino, Hartford, Conn.; Enoch H. Dolle, Quincy, Mass.; Oliver T. Elliott, Boston; Maurice B. Fisch- man, Lamberton . street, New Haven, ‘Alfred M. Gesner, Hadlyme, Frank Gillespie, ~Dorchester, three months bert V. Johnson, 10 Court street, New Haven. Conn.; Lee W. Lamere, Lake- . H.; Lewis R. Lenhart, Somer- William H. Sefton, Fairhaven, y Swanson, Springfield. Mass. Ellis M. Young, -William H. Jenkins. lmer D. Mackey, 2212 Lieutenants - Hugh 'Gugan (Royal Herman Whitmore son, Middletown. Conn.; Private John Downey Named by ‘Wood, acting quartermaster-general. Calonel Downey, who has been depot | Bajtimore and Detroit. E}o_nflensad -'T_élegrams William C. Porter, of New York, was ‘appointed to the Aireraft Board. King Ferdinand, of Bulgariz, has ac- .cepted the resigpation of his cabinet. Secretary Baker submitted supple- The French Government at the re- quest of the Pope reprieved three Ger- mans. Lieutenant Paul Baer, American ace, | 'missing since May 22, is a German prisoner. Sickness ressmbling that which Henry Cohn, Pittsburgh, dealer in United States flags was arrested and | interned as an enemy alien. Great Britain's daily averaze ex President Wilson was electad Fire started in a woodyard in the viile, Conn.; Lieutenant kdward A.!tenement district of Lawrence, Mass., ewed or hoiled beef or beef hash on- | oenne, Rocheste e o e s (e bl v on Wednesdays and Wisconsin Secialist ilwaukee went on r Nearly 200 successful candidates for Hugh Gugan, Uritish Royal IFlying admission to the lirst Naval Distei corps, no address given, and Lieuten- | Hiom Dotlant 'Herman Whitmore, no address | worl and restaurants (o 2Aver lgiven, krench aviation ssrvice. or even the routine way of following| The list follows: It does not want at- ! At Limburg. 630 Capiain George C. l'reeland, \Vest-’weekgl) Jificers’ School at Harvard started Delegates to the fifty-second G. A. rchester, | encampment at Ithaca June 25-27, will | q Charles J. Szilanskis, South pe exempt from the three-cent rail- Scoville tomorrow. | Norwalk, Conn.: Bugler Vincenzo. La- |road rate. 5 Eugene V. Debs may be arrested. 'he Department of Justice is insti. ating his alleged seditious utterances t Canton. 4 One thousand boilermakers and iron- workers in the James Sons' drydock struck because a non- union man was employed. Three manufacturers of oleomargar- ime pleaded guilty in the United States Court of defrauding the Government of the 10 ¢ents per pound tax. Elmer Parker Howe, 66, one of the founders of the United Shoe Machin- ery company and for many years its seneral counsel, died at Boston. Because, they cl Four ambulances were presented to the government of France at York by the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Charles M. Schwab was present at the successful launching of the 6,450- ton ship South Pole, built for Emergency Fleet Corporation, at Balti- more. John Durand, of Lowell, Mass, a hotel proprietor. was sentenced to in Greenfield jail for selling liquor -to men in military ser- vice, The Geological Survey reported coal production higher. An average of more than 12000,000 tons a week is bejng maintained by the bituminous mines. The House passed a resolution turn- ing over to the President a fund of $150.000,000 as an individual war fund. Part of it will go te supporting the . | Creel Bureau. Firing thrice at Clarence L. Potter ; land believing that he had killed .him Arthur’ Markert, 30, turned his revol- ver on himself and committed suicide at Pittsfield, Mass. A strike of 40 doffer boys forced the closing of the spinning mill of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company at Salem, Mass,, throwing nearly 700 em- ployes out of work. Permanent increase of the enlisted personnel ,of the navy from 87,180 to 131,485 provided in the naval appro- priation Dbill as, it passed the senate was approved today by the house: Chairman Taft and Walsh, of the ‘War Labor Board, will try to adjust the threatened strike of 20,000 em- ployes of the General Blectric Co., who demand higher pay and shorter hours. Modification of railroad embargoes where necessary to facilitate the movement of - wool, particularly Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and New England manufacturing cen- ters was announced by the railroad ' administration. Mrs, Frank L. Briggs, wife of the astor of the Union Evangelical church -of Springfield, invited by the parish to fill the pulpit and assume the other pastoral duties ‘while her husband is abroad in the Y. M. C. A. war service. twelve purchasing’ and distributing zone offices and supply depots reeent- GUARDSMEN -ABATED {Tyrestablished by the war department. 4 By the City Council of Bristol—Also: ‘. The Chief Troubl All Men in the Service, ® . | i G projectiles in great quantities. | A 10-cent reduction in the price of e is promised, but we fear that the feduction will have a good deal of trouble - finding the consumer.—New the At the request of the United States |ad el nt, the United States Steel on is about to undertake der the auspices of the national work council of the Y. M. C, A. He|For 47 years he was inspect manufacture of heavy artillery and Wil‘l return to the university in the|local steam boiler inspection and im- autumn, - Resignation of Harry A. Wheeler as federal food Adminisator for Tii- nois was, announced. Mr, Wheeler re- signed in order to give more atten- tion éo the chamber of commerce of nited States of which he was recently reelected president. President Jacob Gould Schurman of the soldiers in the mp!. 2l | the zov ¢ ito 1he S 0 i ant James Staley, a rve arioy membership in the French Academy of | afhecy. 3 Moral and Political Sciences. The Government has accepted W. K. I { more money The bread ration for the city of | contracts wl Vienna has been lowered frem 1260 to | 6 ams (less than 1 1-2 pounds) | Epocha, of Rome, says the pope will | shortly publish a white book on the attitude of the Holy Sea throughout the war. i tection of other cases of fraud. Prince Ivesato Tokugawa, at the head | will be tried by courtmartial. ave-{of the Japanese Red Cross mission ! {to allied countries, has left Japan for America. 1iment war orde The Railroad Administration abol- d the rule 6f per diem charges for use by one line of another line’s cars. Shewan and aim, they have not| received promiséd back pay. repairers in New. York Central Rail- road shops at Dswego, N. Y., struck. 500 car New the 0 [ass., has been Loot valued at more than 54,000, said by the police to be a part of near- ly $60,000 worth of men's and wo- men's wearing apparel stolen E.|stores in and _about Boston has been recovered in New York, W: from A Reserve Army Officer Arrested CHARGED WITH ACCEPTING MONEY FOR A CONTRACT LIEUT. JAMES C. STALEY | Arrest Was Made By Federal Agent: wept Spain recently was reported as! F Johnson of Middietown Among the ; “Pidemic in Germany. : Wheo Had Followed the Officer Dur- ing Inspection of Plant of the True- fit R=inreat Company. Washington. June 18.—The trail v nent's pursuit on war contracts today le. rest in New York of Iieutcn- profitee on a ch of epting money jfrom the Truefit Raincoat Company o iNew York for a contract which =~ he prom 1sland home, called | dle Hour, for a war hospital. ed to proc! ile arrest e, made by depert- incoat company acted in co-opera- liose proprietor: ith the government to detect the tion w { fraud. Had Received Money. The secret agents arrested him.im- | mediately after he was said to have received a sum of money from Joshua : Rosenthal and Louis Wener, proprie- {tors of the plant. It was charged ! that he had told them he would expect as soonm as they got the h they sought for 50,00¢ ncoats costing nearly $250,000. Lieutenant Staley is about old and came originally from Iowa. After being arrested today he made a complete confession of his part in the transaction. department of justice T officials said, and gave ‘much valuable information which may lead to the ge- An Extensive Scheme. The shadow of complieity in the ex- o scheme bv which commission made millions out of, govern- by actinz as middle- for manu- facturers today extended to scores of jbusiness men an attorneys in Wash- New York, Boston and .other nd even to a few secretaries of ten: agen men in obt: ing contract members of congress. Many of the Men Were Amateurs. were landed. mot! government was required to pay. Other Arrests May Be Made. ment of contingent fees. Thompson digested the evidence con- uments. negotiating a war order. PLANTS IN SEVENTY In the Government's Crusade Against War Contract Grafting. 000 contr cts 'involving. plants in sued mund. justice, Dr. Demund and Dr. S'dne; thirty manufacturing and supplv hous- es ar. cathered up all their bo t said. clared. HINDENBURG SUFFERING vate Sanitarium. ‘ashington, ads that Hindenburg took no respom- sible part in the recent offensive on the western battle front, the work belrx;? chiefly done by General Luden- —a ey OBITUARY. Frank S. Allen, Hartford, Conn., June 18.—Frank 8. _Pre 1 Allen, at one. time inspector of steam Cornell university will leave in the| boilers for the state and well knowa near future for France, where he wifl {in engineering é&ircles throughout the un- | country, died at his home here tonight. war | He was born at Lyme, N. H., in 1843. of illezi years He These men. many of whom were am- ateurs in the game of soliciting war contracts, promised to use their influ- ence with government officials, army officers or members of congress to as- sure the awarding of contracts to spe- cal concerns, and in turn were to re- ceive compensation if the contracts A large proportion. of these cases, =f diselosed by correspondence and other documents seized in the simultaneous raids yesterday on offices of several hundred manufacturing plants and for- warded today to the department. .of justice, were not prompted by sinister s. officials believe, and prosecu- tions will not follow. Many others, however, appear the result of carefully planned piots to squeeze millions from contractors, who in turn were to add the contingent fees to prices which the Officials intimated that other arrests may be soon made In connection with the charges on which fcur men are now under indictment here—conspira- cy to violate federal laws forbidding the sub-letting of contracts and pay- Secret agents of the department of justice, treasury, war and navy de- partments were at work today on new phases of the disclosures in Washing- ton and elsewhére, while a corps of in- vestigators under the direction of As- sistant Attorney General -Huston tained In the thousands of seized doc- Attorney General Gregory took the latest information on the raids to the cabinet meeting, and cabinet members 2nd heads of al lexecutive departments making contracts received the "attor- nev general's recommendations, ap- proved by President Wilson. for in- sertion in future contracts of a clause hinding the contractor not to payv eon- tingent fees nor employ middlemen in CITIES ARE INVOLVED New Yorlk, June 18.—More than 300.- cities throughout the country. are em- braced in the government's nation- wide crusade against war contract grafting, according to.a statement is- here tonight by Dr. John E. De- In connection with the department of Pfeiffer, special agents of the treas- ury depariment, are looking into armv v contraets in New York. eity “Yesterdny we visited more than record and other important papers,” he One person, an army officer,. has been arrested already, and others are pending as a result of information ob- tained in the inquiry, Dr. Demund de- FROM NERVOUS'DISEASE. He is Reported as Confined in a Pri- Geneva, June 18.—The Tribune says it learns from a reliable source that Field . Marshal' Von Hendenburg is suffering from an acute nervous dis- ease, that his mental capacity is much affected and that he is confined in a private sanitarium. The newspaper or for &