Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 9, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin, .Service Flag 163 VOL. LIX—NO. " POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, JULY 9 “1918 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS FRENCH Capture Chavigny Farm and the Slopes to the North and South of It TAKE SEVERAL HUNDRE D PRISONERS IN ATTACK On the Somme River East of Amiens and North of Hamel [made, it was assumed that the New the Australian Forces Have Swept the Germans Back Over a Front of More Than a Mile, Thus Straightening Out an Awkward Angle Italians Have Forced the portant Positions—There Are Indications That German Troops May Be Sent to Large Bodies of German a New Offensive Against (By The Associated Press.) Continuing their aggressive defence in the face of the impending German offensive @long the western Mattle front, the French have once more ati- tacked the enemy southwest of Sois- sons. Launching their blow from the eastern side of the Retz Forest, north of Longpont, the French have ad- vanced over a front of approximately two miles taking Chavigny Farm and the slopes to the morth and south of it. Several hundred prisoners were captured by the French in their sud- den attack. This assault may be linked up close- Iy with the recent offensive operations at St. Pierre Aigle and gives the French a new front line from Long- pont north as far as the southern lim- it= of Ambleny, a distance of almost eight miles. Australian troops holdigg positions astride the Somme river of Ami- ens and north of Hamel have swept the Germans back over a front of over a mile and straightened out an awk- ward angle held by the Germans since the Australiang and Americans carried their lines forward In their spirited at- tack on July 4. . Berlin mentions local attacks in the Cljignon sector, which is held by Amer- jeuns, and between the Marne and Rheims, S Sy Itdlian forces operating on-the ex treme left wing ‘of the amea%., in A'hania h positions ) river. which flows into the Adriatic erhout twenty miles nerth of the town of Aviona, ene of the most important piaces in southern Albania. Vienra admits that the Austrian “advanced posts have been withdrawn to their main positions.” This report from Austrian headquarters probabiy refers to the action mentioned in the French official statement on Sunday night. Tt was said by the war office at Paris that French and Italian forces had in the Line — In Albania the Enemy to Withdraw From Im- Moscow in the Near Future— Troops Are Concentrating For Italy, : seized heights in western Ali had held them against counter-attacks. Although the movement is as yet not fully developed, it may-be that a se- rious offensive operation has been ini- tiated there. Italian naval vessels would be able to co-operate with the land forces and if the line is pushed back a very great distance, a re-loca- tion of the enemy lines running over the mountains into Macedonia might be necessary. The fighting north of Avlona has heen going on for at least three days, which indicates tiat it may be more than a mere local action. Events are meving with rapidity in Russia since ‘the assassination of Count von Mirbach, the German am- bassador, at Moscow. Rumors of a counter-revoiution at Moscow come from various sources, but other des- patches say that the uprising has been crushed, and several hundred of the | revolutionists are under arrest. Germany seems on the eve of rele- gating the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty to the “scrap of paper” categery, for there are indications that German troops may be sent to Moscow in the near future. There are large Teutonic forces within 300 mflés of Moscok and it i» reparted that they ace beingeheav- ilv _reinforced. Despatches say' that Fraperor William _hae. forbidden the Germaa foreign: e 10 ‘negotiate .in apv. WaY with Russian emissaries, and act in 4he drama that is being’ playéed on what was formerly the eastern the- atre of the war. There is a threat of a new offensive against Ttaly, this time ‘directed from the Trentino front and carried througi by large. Austrian forces led by Ger- man shock units sent to that sector of the Italian line. Large bories of (Ser- man troops are reperted concentrating preparatory to launching the blow to revenge the utter defeat of the Aus- trian attempt to enter’ the Venetian plains. | N. Y. DEMOCRATS TO DISCUSS GUBERNATORIAL MATERIAL. Committee is to Meet in Syracuse To- day—Hearst Mentioned. Syracuse, N. Y, July 8—Out of a mass of gossip and rumot preliminary to the meeting tomorrow of the com- mittee of 42 upstats New York demo- rrats who are to suggest possible gubernaterial material to the demo- cratio conference at Saratoga later in the month, only one fact seemed to have filtered tonight. That was the announcement of Willlam H. Kelly of Syracuse, the chairman, that the com- mittee tomorrow certainly would not limit the recommendations to one cau- didate. Another feature of the gathering of the delegates was the announcement of Charles . Rattigan, collector of the port of Rochester and former warden of Auburn state prison, Lhat he was vigorously opposed to any movement that might have for its object the nomination of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Rattigan was the first committeeman found who would con- sent to being quoled as voicing anti- Hearst sentiment. Mr. Hearst's probable relation to the democratic sitvation this fall was one of the foremost topics of conver- sation among the early arrivals. This was occasloned: By the published an- nouncement earller in the day, which the steering committee of seven ap- parently coposidered worthy of cre- dence, but which Jater turned aut to be unauthorized, that Mr. Hearst had definitely decided to enter the prima- ries, WESTERN UNION ‘CO. . DISCHARGES UNION MEN. More Than 100 Dismissed from the New Orleans Office. New Orleans, July 8.—More than 100 Ehtravh operators, members of the Commercial Telegraphers’ union of America, employed at the New Or- ans office of the ‘Western Union elegraph company,- have been dis- missed, according to .union officials te- right. The action of this morning. when all men who admitied affiliation with the union.were told their services were no longer needed, was repeated lrhen the night force reported . for uty. W. A. Porteous, manager of the New Drleans office, stated that the men werd dismissed on instructions re- reived from divisional headquarters at Dallas and said that the Western Uin. fon policy in regArd to union men was tc well known that any operator affil- fating himself ‘with the union knew it was equivalient to & resignaiion. 100 Discharged at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., July 8§.—Officlals of the Commercial Telégraphers’ ‘union of America tonight said 100 members of the union had been discharged during the day by the Western Unjon Tele- graph company -here’ because of’ union membership. H. C. 'Worthen, general manager of the 'southern division of 1he Western Union; said that anly % en_were out and that none had left work since Sunday 5 7 WOULD FOREID MANUFACTURE OF BEER AND WINE AFTER NOV. 1 Prohibitionists Are Confident of Vic- tory on Final Roll Call in Senate. Washington, July 8.—Legislation providing for virtually absolute prohi- bition during the war was reported to the menate today after the agriculture commitiee had agreed to drastic changes in the Norris amendment to the $11,000,000 emergency agricultural appropriation bill by which the sale of distilled spirits. beer and wine, ex- cept ter export, would be prohibited after next Jan. 1 and that manufacture of beer and wine be stopped after Nov. 1. Consideration of the uncontested committes amendments to the emer- gency measure, which bezan last Sat- urday night, was yesumed today and dry leaders had hoped to reach the prohibition amendment, but prolonged consideration of the telegraph-tele- phone resolution prevented. Prohibi- tion leaders hope this section will be takew up tomorrow and are confident of victory on the final roll call Strong opposition is expected in view of opposition by shipping board offi- clais to taking beer away from ship- vard workers. As originally proposed, the Norris amendment would have prohibited the sale of distilled liquors and the manu- facture of wine except for export af- ter . next June 230 and the manufacture of beer three months after the agri- culture bill. became 2 law. The sale of wine, however, would not have been stopped. Under the amendment as reported today, the removal of distilled spirits held in bond would be prohibited after Jan. 1. except ynder regulations pre- scribed by the commissioner ef inter- nal revenue with the appreval of the secretary of the treasury. The com- = sigge apLears 1o be set for a newl- missioner also would prescribe regu- lations for the sale and distribution of wine for sacramental, medicinal and other non-beverage purposes. ONE MEATLESS WEEK A MONTH IN GERMANY Will Begin in August, Accerding to the Berlin Tageblatt. Amsterdam. July: 3.—Regulations providing ‘for one meatiess week a nonth ic Germany will begin fn Au- gust, according te the Berlin Tage- blatt. In. the reichstag on Saturday Députy ‘Matzinger, & member of the center party, protested against any| furtner -supplies of grain- being sent te_Austria, : Deputy Wils, a socfalist, declared that a further reduction in rations was | unbearable. Many people, he sald, had | i 1o idea of the misery prevailing among the masses. Unemployment was in- creasing in Berlin and the wages were insufficient to procure the necessary According to the Berlin Vorwaerts, Herr Von Waldow, president of the Geérman food regulation board, speak- ing in-the reichstag on Saturday, cre- lated a sensation by foreshadowing the imposition of a meatless week. The Roumanian Senate adopted the peace treaty. Cabled Paragraphs Spanish Cortes Passes New Espionage Act. Madrid, July 8.—After a long dis- cuesion, the néw act for the repression of espionage has been passed by the cortes, the government having de- clared the law indispensable in main- taining the neutrality of Spain. AMERICANS IN PRISON CAMPS IN GERMANY Of 70 Named, 62 Are From New Eng- land—21 From New Haven, Washington, July 8.—Names of 72 additional American soldiers held in prison camps in Germany were an- nounced tonight by the war depart- ment. Addresses of two of the men were not given. Of the other 70, 62 were from New Englund states, with 21 from New Haven. Conn. Although no announcement was England men were taken prisoner dur- ing the heavy fighting in which units from that section were engaged early in the present year. The men, their addresses and the known camps in which they are held follow: Camp Limburg: Corporals: I.eo H. Buyanoski, Terry- ville, Conn.; James F. Scleman, 7% Pine street, New Haven, Conn.: Miles S. Dunning, West Haven, Conn E. Congleton, West Philadelphi: Privates: Angelo istol, : Leon S. Bernard, Hopkinton, James S. Brennan, Cambridge, Richard A, Brightman, Fall Mass.; Frank Butler, 245 Shel- ton Avenue, New Haven, Conn.: Leon- ard Colburn, 518 Orchard street, New aven, Conn.; Herbert Coliings, 18 Hillside avenue, New Haven, Conn.; Lory M. Couch, New Milford Joseph d’Anna, New Milford, 3 Harold F. Dolan, 35 lley street, New Haven: Raymond E. Hilldale nue, Haverhill, M. Albert Garand, Johnsburg, VCt.. Newman S. Gee, Car® ibou, Maine: James C. Goldrick, 38 Arthur street. New Haven, Conn: James Goodwin, Everett, Mass.; Fred Hager, Prospect, Conn.; Herbert Hall, 582 Woodward avenue, New Haven, 4 M. Lufkin, Providence, B. Kenny, orwalk, T. Lynch, Brooklyn, John T. McCartin, 285 James street, New Haven, Conn.: Michael J. McDermot, 18 Rosette street, New Ha- ven, Conn.: Joseph M. McNamara, 389 Grand avenue, New Haven, Conn.; Clifford N. Markle, 358 Edgewood ave- nue, New Haven. Conn.: Hugh P. Mar- E ron, Norwalk, onn.; Albert James Maynard, 482 Main street. New Haven, Cenn.; Charles Morson, Sdze Hill Road, New Haven, Conn.; Ernest D. Mouquin, Bristol, Conn.: Edward A. Olson, Bristol, Conn.: James E. Pe- tochelli, Pawtucket, R. L: William L. Quinn, Swampscctt, Mass.: Austin M. Ready, Jersey. City, N. J.; Clarence H. Riedel, Bristol, Conn.; Dascomb Rowe, Barnet, Vt.; John Samak, Kovei, Rus- sia; Stephen L. Torok, Darien, Conn.; Patrick Wall, 55 Vernon street, New Haven, Conn.: Edward Green, not identified: Leslie Allen, not identified Camp Hammellburg: < Corporals: Warren Nelson F. Waters, 1238 Dixwell ave- New Haven, Conn. Privates: Edward F. Clarl Ville, Conn; Chester Darma; ville, W. Va.; Krnest A. Collins- Mounds- French, 42 Irvington street, New Haven, Conn.; Arthur Heon, Johnsburg, V" B. William Paul Wal- Lemiux, Middletown, Conn . Peterson, Middletown, Conn. Pierce, Haverhill, Mas: 265 Cedar street. Dennie F. Sween: Con- aress’ avenue, New Haven, Conn.: Warren E Thompson, Portland, Conn.: Howard N. Webb, Ansonia, Conn.; Walter S. Wclf, New Bedford, Mass.; Louis G. Ziegra, Deep River, Conn. Camp Darmstadt: Corporal: Franklin J. Damon, B ton, Mass.; Ralph Harney raming- ham, Mass.: William Kiuth, 205 Springside avenue, New Haven. Conn. Royal J. Lacourciere, 55 Grove stree Meriden, Conn.; Eric E. Lee, Provi- dence, R. L Privates: Norman C. Elliott. Web ster, Mass.; George Evans Newton, Hartford Conn.; Carlisle Tieman, Dayton. Ky. Camp Giesen: Private William C. Nelson, Wenat- chee, Washn. . Camp Unknown: Privates: Edward J. Murray, South- ington. Conn.; Anthony L. Penda, of Bristol, Conn.: Battiste Guzzipoli, rank not given, Springfield. Conn. DRAFT EVADERS IN ARKANSAS BATTLE WITH ALLEGED They Are Reported to Be Fleeing and Setting Fire to the Woods. Little Rock, Ark., July 8&—The tele- phone operator at Heber Springs late today, reported that fighting was tak- ing placs in the hills near that town betw. . alleged draft evaders, a de-| tachment of national army soldiers, a company of the Fourth Regiment, Ar- kansas National Guard. and sheriff's posses from three counties. The op- erator said that the sound of firing had been Leard in the town all afternoon. No report had been received here to- night of the engagement. At noon. according to the telephone operator. the evaders were reported fleeing and setting fire to the woods so the smoke wop'é conceal their movements. The posses were said to be in close pur- suit, OBITUARY. Edmund A. Wetmore. New York, July 8.—Edmund A. Wet- more, distinguished lawyer and edu- cator. and who has been counsel in many important patent litigations in the United States during the past 30 years, died at his home here today. Mr. Wetmore was at one time presi- dent of the American Bar association (1800-1901) and for many years an overt‘ of Harvard university, serv- ing ween 1839 and 1008, He was educated at Harvard, from which he graduated in 1850, and received h iegal educailon at Columbia. Yals, | Hamilton college and his alma mater! conferred degrees of LL. D. upon him i The bhar association of New York, the Harvard, University and Republi- can clubs of New York and the Gen- eral Society of the Sons of the Keve- lutionn honored him at various times with the presidency of their organiza- tions. He was born in Utica, N. Y. June 3, 1838. Charles Mallory. Greenwich, Comn, July R— Mallory, former vice president Mallory Steamship compa heart trouble-at his home Byram Shore, today. His age was 7. He retired from the company in 1506. Mr. Mallory was born at Muystic, Conn. His wife and two hrothers, Henry and Robert, survive. He was a member of many clubs, New York Evening Mail Enemy Property DISCL%URE MADE BY ARREST OF DR. EDWARD A. RUMELY $1,361,000 IS INVOLVED It Is Charged That Rumely in Purchase of the Newspaper Acted in Behalf of the Imperial German Government. New York, July S—Dr. Edward A. Rumely, vice president and treasurer of the Mail and Express company, pub- lisher of the' New York Evening Mail, was arrested here tonight in the office of Attorney General Lewis, charsed with perjury in a report to A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian. The warrant was issued by a federal commissioner upon the complaint of Attorney General Lewis, who had been conducting an investigation for some time into the affairs of the Mail. Acted for German Government. The attorney general charged that Rumely purchased the stock of the Mail and Express company in June, 1915, from Henry L. Stoddard. and that in doing so he acted on behalf of the imperial German government. The complaint against Dr. Rumely charges that in making a report to the alien property custodian regarding the transaction he failed to disclose his relation with Count Von Bernstorff, German ambassador to the United States, and Dr. Heinrich . Albert, commercial attache of the German embassy . Payments Were Concealed. The attorney general charges that the German government paid to Rumely, in several transactions con- nected with the purchase of the Mail, $1361,000. The payments, it was al- leged, were concealed until their de- tails were discovered by investigators for the department of justice and the New York state attorney general. In an announcement tonight of the arrest of Dr. Rumely. Attorney Gen- eral Lewis declared that the money was paid to Rumely from deposits of the German government standing in the name of Dr. Albert, or of Albert and Von Bernstorff, jointly, in this city. The total so far traced, he add- ed, is $1,361,000. The transfers of money, Mr. Lewis said, were concealed in this manner: How Transfers Were Concealed. “Albert procured various banks where the German government had ac- counts, to issue cashiers’ checks to the order of one Walter Lyon, a mem- ber of the former Wall street firm of Rensworf, Lyon & company. This J4firm, in turn, ‘paid the money over to Rumely or to the §. 8. McClure News- aper - i “had been or- ganized by Rumely for the purpose of the transaction. In some cases, Albert drew the money in cash and delivered it to the attornevs of the embassy, Messrs. Hays, Kaufmann & Lindheim, who took the cash to Rensworf, Lyon & company. They in turn made pay- ments to Rumely. In one transaction $75,000 in bills was handled in this manner. Rumely then drew his notes to the order of Walter Lyon. covering the transfers in money, and pledged stock in the S. 8. McCiure Newspaper corporation to secure the loans. Concealed Relations With Von Bern- storff. “Dr.- Rumely, in his report to the alien property custodian, made no dis- closure of his relations with Albert or Von Bernstorff or the imperial Ger- man government. Instead, he report- ed that he owed $100,000 to Herrmann Sielcken, now deceased, upon a note, and he also reported that the notes which he had given Renskorf, Lyon & company, accompanied by a pledge of the stock of the S, S. McClure News- paper corporation, had been surren- dered to him in exchange for the $100,000 note in September, 1917. In other words, by giving his note for $100,000 he had obtained a return of notes agzregating in excess of $1,- 800,006 anq stock representing a co trolling interest in the Evening Mail. Made False Statements. “Rumely has claimed recently that it was Sielcken who put up the money in the transaction. Previously, he had stated Mrs. Busch had contributed to the fund. Mrs. Busch, however, de- nies it and the Columbia Trust com- pany, executor of Hermann Sielcken, as well as Mr. Sielcken’s partners in the firm of Cr¢ elcken, state that so far a know, Mr. Sielcken had nothing to do with the tran on. Dr. Rumely’s interests were varied, |for besides being engaged in the newspaper business, he was secretary By of the Rumely Company of Laporte, Ind., which manufactured agricultural implem and, as founder of the In- terlaken school, of which he is-presi- dent, has written several hooks em- bodying ~ novel ideas on educational matters. Moreover, after having attended the Univer: of Notre Dame and the Univer: of - Heidelberg, he studied at the University of Freiburg. which in 1906 granted him the degree of doctor of medicine, Attorney General ILewis declared that - Mrs. Busch, referred to in his statement, was Mrs. Adolphus Busch, widow of the St. Louis brewer, who was questioned recently by ment "’ officials upon her return from Germany. Committed to the Tombs. Dr. Rumely was committed Tombs by United States Commission- er Hitchcock. Bail will be fixed to- morrew morning. Aithough the attorney general's statement termed Dr. Rumely “vice president. and treasurer of the Mail and Express Company,” the newspa- per's editorial page shows him to be vice president and secretary. Statement by Attorney General. In. a statement issued late tonight Assisiant State Attorney General Becker said: “The entire amount which went intc the purchase of the Evening Mail was to the derived from the sale of German war untry, a bonds in th citizens furnis quire the pape and American the money to ac- ich was to be used i for the. purpyse of carrving oo Ger- made with Hen- , there is no evidence that it was German monsy. Mr. Stoddara retired, from the rmanazement cof the paper and still holds moest of the. out- standing bonds. When the ' TUnited States declared war against Germany, Mr. Stoddard . threatened to foreclose the bonds unless the Evening Mail ex- govern- | . Stoddard knew | i ST SO Norwegian Steamer | Sunk in Mid-Ocean TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER PICKED | UP ELEVEN OF CREW 3 OF CREW DROWNED Shippers Are Warned That Submarines May Be Encountered Between Lati- tude 35 and 45 North. An Atlantic Port, July 8.—A trans- Atlantic liner in port late today brought news of the sinking at sea of the Norwegian steamer Augvald. The liner brought in eleven men, part of the crew, whoy were picked up while adrift. The rescued men are seclud- ed aboard the liner and no details of the sinking could be learned. It is said the Augvald was sunk by a subrzrine. A warning has been sent out that submarines may he encountered bhe- tween latitude 35 and 45 north. On July 5th an enemy submarine was in latitude 42.32 north, longitude 43.50 west. Three of Crew Drowned. Another neutral ship. the Norwegian steamer Augvald, 2,098 tons, bound from a French port for Baltimore, has fallen a victim of a German subma- rine, A trans-Atlantic liner in port today brought the news of the sinking of the Augvald in mid-ocean on June 23 and also landed eleven members of the crew of 27 men. Three of the crew were drowned and the remaining thir- teen are unaccounted for. Picked Up By Liner. The rescued men were picked up by the liner after having drifted helpless- 1y for 11 days, subsisting most of that day on seaweed and rainwater wrung from their clothing or caught in their caps. According to members of the crew the steamer was stopped by shellfire, the crew ordered into two hoats and the ship sunk with bombs, Lifeboats Became Separated. Captain Egge, of the Augvald, left the ship with twelve men in his boat and it hecame separated from the oth- er lifeboat containing four{een of the crew. For two days the latter boat drifted about and was then upset in a storm. Three of the men were swept away and the others managed to right the boat and bail her out. They lost all their fuod and fresh water and even their oars were gone. Drifted Helplessly. Drifting helplessly, the men began to suffer for want of food and water. Sea- weed was eagerly snatched up and chewed and everv device they could think of was resorted to to catch rain watgr. There was a succession of rainstorms and the men were almost continuvally "drénched. Finally on July 4 the rescue shim came over the hori- zon. $200,000000 FOR ELECTRIC CENTRAL POWER PLANTS. Congress is to Be Requested to make Appropriation. Philadelphia, July 8&—Plans have been decided upon to ask congress for $200 000,000 to finance the erection of huge electric central power plants in various parts of the United States to meet the needs of the country’s war industries, according to a statement issued by William Potter, federal fuel administrator for Pennsylvani: The proposed legislation is in line with the efforts of the national fuel administra- tion to save coal, transportation and supply of electric power. Mr. Potter E the territory most affectedq em-| s Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New | eastern Ohio, northern West Vir- ginia, and, indirectly, New England. PRICE OF ALL HARD COAL IS TO BE ADVANCED From 30 to 50 Cents Per Ton—Result of Increased Freight Rates, Hartford, Conn., July S.—Coal prices in this state are im tely to be in- creased from 30 to per ton on all sizes of anthr according to announcement made the state fuel administrator, Thomas W. Russell, todav. as a result of an| increase of 40 cents per ton in freight rates allowed b e government. The price in thi: 1 be advanced 40 cite larger than pea, w cents to $10.70 per ton. In other points in Connecticut it will be raised vary- ing amounts according to freight mile- age from distribution cente; TWO AMERICAN AVIATORS KILLED IN COMBAT, Alan Ash of Chicago and Warren T. Hobbs of Worcester. | With the Ame July §$—(By The A Alan Ash of go,a member of the | Lafayette flying squadron, has been| killed in a combat with several Ger- man machines over Soigsons. His machine when falling was seen to| burst into flames. | Warren T. Hobbs of Worcester, Mass., another member of the Lafay- ette flying squadron, was killed on June 26. Forced to fly low because of engine trouble, he was brought down by anti-aircraft guns. pressed loyalty to this country in ev- ery way." Bondholders to Take Possession. New York, July §.—The bondholders of the Mail and Express company wiil take possession of the Evening Mail tomorrow morningand “we will see to it that the true Americanism for which we stand will be reflected in the col- umns of the paper,” said Henry L. Stoddard. president of rhe company, in a statement tonight. My. Stoddarc said that he had known for two weeks the government was searching the source of the funds w whick Dr. Rumely purchased the BEv ring Mai; from him and_ his associates, but that he was sstounded tc hear the money was secured in the manner charged. Asserting that he was gratified, the investigators had expressed- confidence in his ignorance of the trarvsaction, Mr. Stoddard declared that “it is true, as Deputy Attorney General Becker states, that just before ‘this country entered the war. I insisted to. Dr. Rumely that the course of the paper should be unswervingly, unhesitatingly and aggressively patriotic and loyal.” Many a man who thanks he is a|ported to_the senate without amend- ofulhe man who can't self. : martyr is only a chump. i 2ih ]Te\arhcrs' association. {land. The war department announced last night that the officer was forced to land in Swiss territory last June Condensed Telegrams ed 5307 British ships in eight months, | 1 i i ! ! Several aerial attacks occurred on! Dunkirk but no bombs were dropped. ; The French Ministry of Agriculture has regulated the price of horse mea. Berlin announced the reduction of | the potato rations from three pounds to one. i Professor Prytz, minister in the Nor- | wegian cabinet since April, 1917, re-! signed. Three Cuban soldiers convicted of assassination were put to death by a firing squard. Police conducted a raid in New York against loafers arresting twenty-three and summoning fifty. The Costa' Rican Congress passed a resolution proclaiming July 14, Bastile Day, a national holiday. Henry Wright, a negro, British sub- | ject, was arrested in Harlem for ing “To Hell with America.” Three more deserting German air- men landed on the island of Mannedo, of the south coast of Denmark. Two Swedish aviators were killed | while testing a new seaplane during a flight across the Bulf of Bothnia. { Five men, four Austrians and one Russian, were arregied in New York for failing to file alien questionmaires. | James P. Glynn, of Winsted, was| renominated for Congress from the Fifth Republican Connecticut District. Secretary McAdoo is rapidly recover- i ing his health, according to a report received at the Treasury Department. The war department yesterday asked and obtained permission to locate anti- aircraft guns on the Boston public garden. Senator Swanson, of Virginia, was appointed chairman of the Naval Com- mittee, to succeed the late Senator| Tillman. ! Foreign Minister Kuehimann answer- | ing a questioner in the Reichstag told him Germany is not preparing for a campaign in India | The Guatemalan Government issued a decree taking over German interests as a war measure and named Daniel B. Hodgman as administrator. the Italian embassy, at announced that 16,000 shipping in addition to were launched in June. A report to ‘Washington, tons of steel wooden ships Walter L. Merrill, a soldier at Camp Devens, was seritenced by general courtmartial to 15 years for breaking confinement on Jan, 16 and for deser- tion. The Senate confirmed nominations of eight brigadier generals to be major generals in the National Army and of forty-one colonels to be brigadier gen- erals. The strike of operatives of the! Amoskeag and Stark cotton mills, in; Manchester, N. H.. was settled. Manu- | facturers agreed to pay a 15 per cent increase. ! German soldiers are pillaging trains carrying food supplies in Germany. Machine guns have been put on some trains with orders to shoot to kill any pillagers. Two 40,000 ton type battleships au- thorized by Congress will be constryct- ed at the Brookiyn Navy Yard. Secre- tary Daniels approved the building ways there. Dr. Miller, Reese Hutchinson, West Orange, N. J., for several years chief engineer of the laboratory in West Orapge. owned by Thomas Edi-} son, resigned. ! of | A new type of battleplane was tried | out successfully at the Hemnst(“dd“ Aviation Field. The machine has a| speed of 150 miles an hcur and can | climb 1,000 feet a minute. At the request of Colonel Roosevelt | the House adopted a resolution restor- | ing to him the $40,000 awarded by the | Nobel Prize Committee for his services | in behalf of internation peace. He | will donate the money to the Red Cross. Tests conducted for several weeks ' at the Mineola aviation field have proved that deaf mutes make excell- ent material for aviaters, according to an announcement made by officers of the New York Institute for the In- struction of the Deaf. To prepare the coming generation | of Jews to live in Palestine, the fur- ther teaching of Hebrew and study of modern Palestine geography in He- brew schools is advocated by the offi- cers of the New England Hebrew Lieut. James C. Ashengen, an avi: tor of the American iona forces, has been i 25 because he ran out of gasoline CONTEST IN SENATE OVER | i CONTROL OF WIRES AND RAD|O}“ House Measure Was Reported With- out Amendment of Recommendation. Washington, July 8—Efforts of the administration to secure immediate disposal by the senate of the house resolution authorizing the president to take -over telegraph, telephone, cable and radio systemhs during the war stir- red up a bitter fight today in the up- per house in which the administration won and then lost a parliamentary ad- vantage. The resolution was buffeted bhack and forth between th2 senate inter-! State commerce committee and the senate floor, in a stormy controversy | over the question of holding hearings or hastening senate debate and a vote. | No decision was reached or progress made and both factions prepared for renewal of the struggle tomorrow. Reconvening after defeat in the house last Saturday of their summer | vacation programme. senators today almost immedi control - took up the wire! res with leaders plan- on ning to expedite tlie senate's action as|I% requested by President Wilson. At A special meeting late today the Interstate Commerce Committee with Reduction in Prices -of Cotton Products HAS BEEN APPROVED BY PRESI- DENT WILSON FROM 20 TO 30 PER CENT To Apply to Ci n as Well as Gov- ernment Purchases—To Be Effective Until Next October 1. Washington, July 8.—Prices for cot- ton products showing reductions of from 20 to 30 per cent. as compared with quoted market prices were ap- proved today by President Wilson. The prices were agreed upon at con- ferences between the price-fixing committee of the war industries board jand a committee yepresenting cotton goods manufacturers. The new prices are: ' The New Prices. 36" 48 x 48 3.00 yard sheeting 60 cents per pound. 36" 56 x 60 4.00 yard sheeting 70 cents per pound. 38 1-7" 60 x 60 5.35 yard print cloth 83 cents per pound, 38 1-2 80 x S0 4.00 yard print cloth 84 cents per pound. Prices on standard wide and sail duck were fixed at 37 1-2 and 5 per cent. from the list and standard army duck 33 per cent. from the list. The war industries board an- nounced that a corimittee is at work on a list r‘omprisin? full linte of sta- ple cotton fabrics Yor the purpise of establishing prices. This list is ex- pected to be afmounced in a few days. In Effect Until Next October. The prices announced today are te remgin in effect until next Oct. 1. Be- fore” that date the industry will meet with the price-fixing committee to agree ypon prices for a further period of 90 days. The new prices affect chiefly cottor piece goods of which the government is a heavy purchaser. They apply, however, to civilian as well as govern- ment purchases. The price-fixing committee's. actior with regard to finished cotton is be- lieved to be the forerunner of price- fixing on virtually all other commodi- ties of which the government is a large purchaser. WASHINGTON SILENT ON POLICY TOWARD RUSSIA A Statement From White House Like- ly in the Near Future. Washington, July 8. — Absolute si- lence was observed among high offi- cials and dinlomats today concerning the w policy toward Russia ta which the United States government had arreed.~ There were intimations that a statement from the White House was under consideration but it could not be established that this was likely to be forthcoming in the immediate fu- ture. The feeling zrew that the details of the lines of operations to he pursued under the plans discussed at the White House confarence Saturday had not |been worked out, and that even when this had been done silence might be expected for a time hecause of the possikility of jeopardizing the pro- gramme by perm’iting official inform- ation of it? nature to reach Germany. The attitude which the entente allies and America should adopt in dealing with Russia has been discussed from so many angles in the press that one official remarked today any announce< ment that mizht be made of anv actual operations revealing its nature could not come' as a surprise to the pub- le. ‘A conference a‘ the Whita House during the dayv lasting an honr between President Wilson and the British am- hassador was immediately connected with the Russian situation, which it i known, is the subject of active changcs between entente canitals and Washington. Tt was assumed that the ambassador called to hear of the con- clusions reached Saturday when the | president went over tha question with the state, war and navv secretaries and the chief military and naval offi- cers. LARGE THEFTS FROM NEW HAVEN HARDWARE FIRM Two Emploves of the C. S. Mersick & Co. Held For Hearing. New Haven, Corn.. July 8.—Charg- ed with theft of goods valued at sev- eral thousand dollars from C. S. Mer- sick and Comnany a bhig hardware firm city. William Reed of New Ha- ven, a department salesman fos $he company, and Carl Lourie and Bafnev Guhresky, employes of a local plumb- ing concern, were arrested late today held under bonds for a hearinz in po- lice court. An additional charge of conspiracy has been placed ' against them. According to the police the men have adniitted heing implicated in the thefts. which it ‘s claimed have con- tinued over a period of several months, and included the disapnearance from stock of a varied assortment of plumb- ing snpp! with a_considerable reg- ularitv. Lourie and ' Gubresky, it is alleged, unknown to their emnloyer. used one of the latter's automobiles to arry awayv the stolen zoods. Former Governor- Rollin S. Woodruff is presi- dent of the Mersick Company. GOVERNMENT DEFEATED IN PANAMA ELECTION, American Soldiers Acted as Watchers at the Polls. Panama, July 8 (by A. P.).—The government forces were defeated yes- in the elections to the national bly. which ‘chooses a president. American soldiers acted as watchers at the polls, ang the election was quiet The only untoward incident reported was that of Father Polo, a priest, be- ing killed at Santa Isabella, near Co- lon. The opposition apparently will con- trol the assembly by a fair majority When the assembly meets it will ele~t a president to fill the unexpired twc years of the term of the late Presi- dent Valdez. Other important questions <o will come before it ,including a constitutional amendment permiitips one not horn in- Panama to become vesident. This measure is believed to be in favor of E. A. Moralés, who was born in Colombia, and who was little discussion and by & vote of 4 ol 2, decided to dispense with hearings on the resolution and ordered it re- ment or recommendation. formeriy, a ministed to the United States. Success never roosts on the bannéy nlz'wnm Py ~ rgh