Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 1, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 183 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, AUGU%T {, 1918 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS LULL IN HOSTILITIES ON THE SOISSONS- RHEIMS FRONT Contending Armies Appear to Have Become Exhausted By Two Weeks of Incessant Fighting ONLY RECIPROCAL BOM BARDMENTS REPORTED Notwithstanding That Huge Reinforcements Have Been Sent to the German Front in the Soissons-Rheims Salient, the Teutons Have Not Had the Hardihood to Endeavor to Throw Back Their Antagonists — At the Apex of the Battle Line Near Fere en Tardenois the Germans Are| Showering the American Positions With Great Quantities of High Explosives and Gas—Great Fires Behind the German Lines Indicate the Destruction of Further Vil- lages Which It is Intended to Evacuate. decreased their ent of Ger- offensive is at- the armies of have , for, not- hat huge rein- them in their were sen of dire peril, they have lacked the hardn 0 endeavor to throw | back their antagonists and recoup their losses. The fourtesnth day of the great al- ed offensive which has resulted in driving back the Germans from the farne n northward across the ver and in materially bending tern and western side of | pocket with its mouth run- ross-country _ thirty-six iles Soissone to Rheims, saw little n the part of either of the <—except in the na-| rocal bombardments t witnessed violent at- Germans to expel the | French from the valu- | they hold north of_the | rezion of Fere en Tar- along the western side of pear Oulchy 1 Chateay, troops are holding with e wedge that has been salient where Scot French driven eastward into the enemy line. These efiorts were entirely fruitless. A watchful eye is being kept by the Germans on the Americans standing at the apex of the battle line near Fere en Tardenois, and the enemy guns are showering their positions with great, quantities of high explo- sives and shells. The enemy also continues alously to guard with huge effectives the extreme eastern and western flanks of the salient to ward off possible surprise atiacks. The latest Berlin official communi- cation asserts that more than 4,000 prisoners have been taken Dy the Germans in the past few days and that since July 15 in excess of troops have heen captured. Great fires behind the German lines indicate the dastruction of further vil- lages which it is intended to evacuate and press on. northward to a chosen battle line. With the approach of the com- mencement of the fifth year of the war the German emperor evidently real- izes the seriousness of the situation. In a proclamation to his army and navy he tells his men they are facing the hardest struggle of the war but that they will be able to foil “the desperate efforts of the enemy.” What may result in aggravating the already serious situation hetween the Germans and the Ukrainians is the assassination of Field Marshal Von Bichhorn, the German dictator in the "kraine, and his adjutant. They were killed by the explosion of a bomb thrown by a native in Kiev. 19 ENLISTED MEN IN GERMEN PRISON CAMPS Ten of the Men Named Are From Con- necticut. July 31.—Names of men of the American , held in Germany of war, were announced the war department. The camps where they are held ows ammelthurz: Corporal War- feriden, Conn.: and Warren. Mounds- Ernest A. Freach. New ang Warren E. Thomp- Sergeants Henry Plymouth street. eNw Frank L. Smith, Re- F. Nolan, Ha ck Miller, Ever- New Haven, Conn.; Ed- Patenande, West Haven, Woods, 107 Conn Mass. Conn court A Conn Camp Limberg: Coleman amn ridgeport. Conn. *hiladelphia Conn. Corporals James Remington street Roy Congleton, of Miles Dunning, Forest- Patrick Meehan. Spring- and Lee Whitehead, Jef- Privates Leonard Colburn, 18 Orciard street. New Haven, Conn.: Edward N. Doherty, Newton Center, Mass.: John McCartin, 50 Thompson street, New Haven Conn.. and Patriek Wall, County Leltam, Ireland. Camp Landshut: Sergeant Thomas Buffum, Paris, France. GRADUATED EXCISE TAX ON USE OF AUTOMOBILES Has Been Agreed Uoon by the House Ways and Means Committee. Washington. July 31.—A federal graduate excise tax on the use of wutomebiles rumning from $10 a year on cars originally retailed at not ex- ceedt $500 to a 360 tax on $3.000 cars, and $20 additional for each $300 above $3.000, was agreed to today Ly the house ways And means committee, which is framing the new $8600,000 - 000 revenue bill. The tax applies di- | reetly to the owners, while the tax of ten per cent on gross sales of auto- mobiles and five per cent on gross) sales of auto trucks, agreed to vester- day, applies to the manufacturers, pro- ducers and importers of cars The tax on use of cars is based on the original listed retail price of the car, regardless of the vear of manufacture. The committee also agreed to a tax of two cents per gallon on the pro- daoction of gasofine and a federal excise tax of $5 a year on the use of motor WOULD LIKE TO BE GOVERNOR OF BAY STATE. — Col. W. A. Gaston Enters Contest for the Democratic Nomination. MARCEL KNECHT TALKS TO K. OF C. WAR SECRETARIES Mere Than 100 Who Are About to Sail For France. New York, July 31. Comparing Knights of Columbus secretaries who have been accepted for overseas ser- vice to French pioneers and mission- | aries, Marcel Knecht of the French high commission addressed here today more than 100 of .the war workers about to sail for France. “As you are our allies forever not forget to get in close touch with our brave soldiers” said M. Knecht. “Our French population, old men and women, boys and children. everything, their houses, even their old churches bombarded and destroy- ed. Give them comfort and prove your magnificent Christian spirit and brotherhood. Remember that you are going there as Americans, “The Knights of Columbus tried to help and entertain American soldiers without distinction of creed. In France you will follow the same in- spiration_and not only cheer the French Catholics, who represent a majority of our population, but also the Protestants, the Jews ana every Frenchman with whom you are now brothers in the cause of humanity.” LIBERTY LOAN CAMAPIGN IS TO OPEN SEPT. 25 Will Run Three Weeks Instend of Four as in Previous Campaigns. Washington, July 31.—The campaign for the fourth Liberty loan will open Saturday, September 28, and continue three weeks, ending October 19, it was announced tonight by Secretary Mc- Adoo. In fixing three weeks as the length of the campaign for the fourth loan in- stead of the four weeks as in previous loans, treasury officials plan for a more intensive campaign. A shorter campaign.. it was said, also will enable more business men to enlist as work- ers. The date of the campaign was an- nounced at this time in order-to allow campaign organizations to prepare for the sale of bonds and to prevent the planning of other campaigns which might interfere with the flotation of the loan. Although official announcement has not been made, ahe amount of the loan probably will be $6,000,000,00¢ and the rate of interest which the bonds will bear 4 1-4 per cent. Should the treas- ury decide soon to place on the market certificates of indebtedness redeemable next June when taxes are paid, the amount of the loan may be reduced. A GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL WAS MURDEDED IN KIEV. Killing of Von hhorn Has Created Consternation Among German Officials Boston, July 31—Col William A. Gaston, a banker of this citv, todsy formally announced his candidacy for the democratic nomimation for gover- nor. I believe that as governor,” he sald, “I can the more contribute to the support of President Wilson in his Zreat of winning the war than 1 can in any other way:" Colonel Gaston s state chairman of the advisory ~om- mittee of the war indpstries board There are two ofher announced candidates for the nomination—R. H. Lobg, a shoe manufacturer of Fram- inghwm, and Frederick W. Mansfield of this city, who received the nomina- London, July 31.—A despatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says the murder in Kiev Tuesday of Field Marshal Von Eichhorn, the Ger- man commander of the Ukraine, has created consternation in German offi- cial circles and that it is expected the German government will demand im- mediate and exemplary punishment of the assassin under the threat of occu- pying more land in the Ukraine The German newspapers, the corre- spondent adds, unanimously assert that Germany must interfere with her. full strength 1 Rssia if Germany does not desire to lose what prestige she still has in the east. . 4,000 allied | do} have iost| have | fined. jat Harv Cabled Paragraphs Spanish Court o Mourn Czar. Madrid, June 31.—The official jour- nal announces that the Spanish court will go into mourning for thirty days for Nicholas Romanoff, former emper- or of Russ GERMAN AGENTS DICKERED FOR BOSTON JOURNAL Owners Became Suspicious and* Block- ed the Negotiations. New York, July 21.—Anthony Ar- noux, one-time military critic of the Boston Journal and author of a his- tory of the European war which was said to have been popular with pro- Germans, was recommended as a “mil- itary expert” to Dr. Edward Rumely, of the Ncw York Evening Mail, by Georze Syivester Vierick, declared Depuly Attorney. General Pecker here tonights Mr. Becker, in giving out ad- ditional testimony obtained by the ex- amination of Vierick, also quoted Charies E. Ware, Jr., one of the own- ers of the Journal in 191& Examined by Mr. Becker, Mr. Ware said that “all the Germans in Boston were crazy about Arnoux’s articles in the Journal, altliough not approving. the cditorial policy of the paper. Aruoux, he said, had been’engaged to take charge as a military expert soon after the war began. He had not been employed on any other paper, but had Leen practicing law in New York, where he was born. Mr ulso Lern| Ware, according to Mr. Becker, told of negotiations which Dr. rd Dernburg and Dr. Hugo sichweitzer, who died in New York st vear opened with him looking to the purchase of the Boston Journal by German interests. Mr. Ware said that the paper. was in financial difficulties, but $78.000 of a needed $100,000 had been raised. The paper was experl- encing _difficulties in obtaining the cther $22,000, he said, when Dr. R. Huer enting the Baver Chem- ical in boston, and Dr, Ed- mund Mach, = former professor and author of “What Ger- many Wants,” undertook to help them. Dr. Huertz, he said, called on Dr. Dernburg in New York. and later came to New York to see him. On hig re- turn, Ware told Mr. Becker, he said there was a good chance of zetting the money, and Dr. Schweitzerls name was mentioned. Warev said he asked whether Dr. Schweitzer was putting up the money himself and Huertz re- plied that he might be “representing others.” made Ware believe that they some axe to zrind” and he did not accept the $22,000. The Journal later was sold to the Boston Herald when examined by _Mr. d_he was born in New York r. Becker said he had a let- ter in_wuich Theodore Johann Ritter; a publisher and hcokselier of Boston, wrote to Arnoux cn March 11, 1818, that his “History of the European War” had “sreat rossibilitiss” even at that time, and “we have at last suc- ceeded in convincing the Vierick com- pany of the great possibilities of your history and they are eager at pres- ent tc start their propoganda.” A nuniner of other letters from Rit- ter were made puhblic by Mr. Becker in one of which ‘he expressed the: belief that “we cam sell’# good many since this is the only pro-German history. of the war in the English language” and in another that “it should be In the li- brary of every fair minded person and of every German sympathizer.” Rit- ter has since been internad. WILSON SENDS GREETINGS TO CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS At Dedication of New Headquarters Building in Boston, July 31.—A message from President Wilson conveying friendly greetinzs and _congratulations was read tonight at the ceremony incident to the dedication here of the new headquarters building of the United o icty of Christian Endeavor. Mem- bers of the society in this country and abroad contributed to the general building fund. A service flag with 140 stars, each representing 1,000 members from this country with the colors, was among Boston | the decorations. Rev. Francis C. Clark, founder and president of the organiza- tion, “Our_brave Endeavor allies in Eng- land, Canada, Australia and France, Ttaly, Japan and China deserve a ser- vice flag decorated with as many more glorious stars, nearly, if not quite, 300,000 in all INDIAN TRIBE TO DECLARE WAR AGAINST GERMANY. The Onondagas of New York State— Tribesmen Imprisoned in Germany. Syracuse, N. Y. July 31—Edward ohl, adopted Onondaga Indian and adviser of the tribe, announced tonizht he had been delegated by the Onon- dagas to draft a_declaration of war against Germany for the imprisonment of 17 members of the tribe at the out- break of the war in 1914. The Indians put in prison were a part of circuses. The Indians were insulted and beaten by the Germans and Austrians and finally imprisoned for their own protection. but later their release was obtained. By the terms of a treaty with Gen- eral George Washington and 23 chiefs of the Onondaga tribe in 1783 the Onondagas were declared a separate nation in the United States and both sides alWays have respected the treaty. BUQYING UP SPIRITS OF GERMAN PEOPLE President of Reichstag Has Dreams of a Victorious Kaiser. Amsterdam. June 31.—The president of the German reichstag, Herr Fehren- back. in response to a congratulatory address made to him by the people of Freiburg, said: “T joyfully look forward to the time when I can offer the victorious kaiser the thanks of the German nation. True, we are far from that vet, but we must not lose courage, even if some more hundreds of thousands of Americans come over. There is no doubt of final German victory.” CELEBRATED SUCCESS OF THE ENTENTE OFFENSIVE Inhabitants of Liege, Belgium, Incur Displeasure of German Governors. London, July 31.—The Maastricht newspaper Les Nouvelles says the in- habitants of Liege, Belgium. held an enthusiastic public demonstration over the success of the entente offensive on the Marne salient, during which the Marseillaise was sung. Because of this, the newspaper adds, the German gov- ernor has ordered the curfew rung. at seven o'clock in the evening for sev- eral weeks and the city also has been . tinue o Ex-Czar Collapsed at Execution Post More Foodstuffs Than a Ypar.Ago‘ WAS PROPPED UP AND SHOT BY LARGER STOCKS ARE IN DEAL- BOLSHEVIKI % ERS' HANDS HAD 2 HOURS NOTICE Received Announcement of Sentence of Death With Caimness and Sub- sequently Wrote Several Letters. Amsterdam, July 31 Given two hours in which to prepare for the end, Nicholas Romanoff, for- mer’ Russian emperor, w taken out by his executioners in a state of such collapse that it was necessary 1o prop | him against a post, says the Anzeiger, of Beriin. have received from a high Russian personage an account of the emper- or's last hours. Awakened at 5 a. m. Nicholas was awakened at five o'- clock on the morning of the dayv of his execution by a patrol of a non-com- missioned officer and six men. He was told to dress, and was then taken 10 a room where the decison of the Soviet council was communicated to him. H: was informed the execution would be carried out in two hours. The former emperor, it is added, re- ceived the announcement of the sen- tence i He returned to hi lapsed in a chair. Lokal- bedroom and col- After a few minutes he asked for a vriesti with whom he 1nattended. was allowed to remain. Subsequently he wrote several letters. Unable to Rise From Chair. When the escort arrived: to him to the place of execution, N las attempted to rise from his chair. bui was not able. to his feet. once he fell dow: to stand witho place of execution was (by A. P)— which claims to of. Geath with great calmness. The priest and:a soldier were obliged to help him get The condemned man de- scended the stairs with difficulty and As he was unable support when the veached, he SURVEY MADE JULY 1 Exceptions Are White Flour, Buck- wheat Flour, Sugar and Canned Corn Big Increase in Whole Wheat. Washington, July 31. — Stocks of foodstuffs in dealers’ hands are gen- erally larger than they were a year ago. A survey made July 1 by the depart- ment of agriculture shows increase in the most important foodstuffs_except- ing white flour, which was 51.1 per cent. less than a yvear ago; buckwheat flow 4 per cent. less; rice 41.1 per cent. less; sugar per cent. less, and canned corn 12.1 per cent less., Percentages of Increase. Quantities of whole wheat and gra- ham flour were 139.1 per cent. larger 4.8 per mix- than a vear ago; rve flour cent.: corn meal 116.5 per cent. ed flour 1008 | cent.; barle; per cent.;. bean r cent.: oats 33.6 per cent.; canned salmon 17.5 per cent.; condensed milk 121 per cent. and evaporated milk 36 per cent. CAPT. AUBREY W. VAUGHAN PLACED UNDER $10,000 BOND. Pleaded Not Guilty to Charges of Con- 3 spiracy to Rob the Government. New York, July 31L—Capt. Aubrey W. Vaughan of the quartermaster’s reserve corps, Ielix Gouled, a manu- : 1 facturer, and David L. Pedell, a law- yer. pleaded not guilty to changes of conspirac yto defraud the zovernment in connection with army raincoat con- tracts in the federal court today. Bail was fixed at $10,000 in the cases of Captain Vaughan and Gouled, and Podell was put under $3000 bonds. was propped against a post. He|® fegerai poen tacs 5 8 prosecutors charged that raised his hands und to DelGouled. who has a small factory tryving to were 3 fired and he fell dead WiRE CJMUNICAT]ON s UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL.| Lines Were Taken Over by Postoffice Department La Night. Washington. July .. .31.—Control telephone and telegraph i taken over at midnight ton postoffice department and their opera- tion placed u r ‘the general super- vision of a special committee created for the purpose by Postmaster, Gen- 1 “the companies will con- ‘im tlte ordinary course through the regular channels and that all officers and employes will continue in the performance of their -present duties on the same terms of employ- is, however, to co- ordinate the facilities of the various companies to tme best interest of the eral Burleson. : Mr..Burleson. announced . that ‘unt further ment. The plan public ang the stockholders. Tnvestiigations mittee composed of First Postmaster General Koons. Lewis, commission. and William H. Lamar. solicitor of the. posteffice denartment David J. will be continued so that ail possible information can be secured before any changes are undertaken ALLIED AVIATORS ACTIVE ALONG THE WHOLE FRONT of into wire conditions being conducted by the special com- Assistant former, member of the’ tariff at Weehawken J.. obtained seven or eight jarge contracts for the manu- facture cf raincoats for ment on consideration of the payment of a “coramission” of 5 per cent part of which, they said, was divided with Captain Vaughan and other officers of the United States army. Millions of dollars, it is said. were involved in the contracts. Captain Vaughan, .when arraigned, protested his innocence. adding that he kne wonly two persons mentioned in se. " Captain Vaughan, who is 39 s old, joined the officers’ reserve s in April. 1917. He h: wife |and “four children in Newton. Mass. | Before joinipg the army he was an i i gineer for ihe Saco-Low- el Mackine. company «at. Lowell, Mass. AERIAL ACTIVITY OF AMERICANS HAS INCREASED Owing to the Fact That the Weather Has Cleared. With the American Army in France, July 31—(By The Associated Press.) —Aerial activity was greatly increased today owing to the fact that the weath- er. after several weeks of storms, has cleared. American aviators under- topk reconnaissance missions, chiefly, but the pursuit machines also were up. Two American fliers attacked two Ger- man scouts over Montsec, in the Woevre, and drove one enemy plane down. The Germans put over a heavy bar- rage in the Woevre sector this morn- i e i inz. It lasted more than half an hour In Aerial Combats Juiy 28 and 29 and it probable that they seut in- Fourtesn Enemy Airplanes Were | {aniry_across behind the barrage. But Disabled. Paris, ‘Tuly 31.—During the fighting on July 28 and 29 the allied aviators were active along the whole front of the battle between the Aisne and the according to the Havas cor- Marne respondent at the front. On July 25 French and leys and upon railroad stations militarv objectives in the same region. On July 29 and the following night 36 tons of hombs were dropped, fires and explosions being caused. There were many aerial enemy forced to land disabled. CONTINGENTS OF JEWS ARRIVE IN PALESTINE Men Who Have Been Trained in Can- ada and England. New York, Jul Jewish reziment enrolled in British forces near Jaffa, LOANS BY FRANCE TO ALLIED AND FRIENDLY NATIONS Mi For 3,015,000,000 Francs. Paris, July 31.—M. Klotz. minister of | finance, today introduced a-bill in the | chamber of deputies authorizing the 3,015 000.000 franes to allied and ifriendly nations in addition to the 7.166.000,000 already ad- a Russian zovernment to advance vanced. The new amount Inclndes sum necessarv to pay the coupens for six month: OBITUARY. Henry Shaler Williams. Havana, July-31. Henry Williams of Tthaca. today of pleurisy. He was 1 years old. Protessor Williams was well known as ‘a geologist. His research work in CCuba resulted in the development ot oil fields in the Island. Henry Shaler Williams was born in from Yale in 1368. He held the professor- Tthaca in 1847. He ' graduated ship of mutual science in the U versity of Kentucky from 1871 to 1872 the same university ‘from 3880 to 1892, He also _held professorships. at = Cornell and Yale and has been emeritus pro- and was professor of zeology in fessor of geology at Cornedl since 1012 Professor Williams was: the author of |ers and Albertus W. Catlin to be tem. numerous works‘cn-geology, British bombing planes dropped over twenty tons of projectiles upon cantonments and roads in the Ardre and Vesle val- 2nd combats during the course of which fourteen machines were shot down or 31.—Safe arrival in Palestine of the first two contingents of the American Jewish legion was announced tonight by the Zionist or- ganjzation of America. Recruited last spring, the men have been trained in Canada and Tngland and wil! join the Tondon and already on-the firing line’ with the ster of Finance Introduces a Bill Shaler Y., died here their fire was entirely wasted, as the positions had been evacuated The destruction of a German balloon on July has been verified and an- other was brought down yesterday. NEWS DIRECT FROM THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Satisfactory Progress Made on the Aisne-Marne Front. With the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, July 31—§ p. m— (By The Associated Press).—General Degoutte, commanding the army on this front, expressed to the corre- spondents today his satisfaction at the pregress already made and the hope that the advance would continue until the Germans were forced beyond their new positions. It had been a keen satisfaction to him, he said, to have American co- operation in the battle, and he was frank in his praise of the manner in which the Americans were carrying out their part. =ome of the officers now in the line ke had met at the time of the Boxer rising in China, when he was a captain. The Ameridan forces now occupy the hills beyond Seringes and Serzy. 510 LOCOMOTIVES HAVE BEEN ORDERED FOR FRANCE About 10,000 Freight Cars Will Be Ordered Within a Few Days. Washington, July 31.—The war de- partment has ordered 510 locomotives for military railroads in France from the Baldwin Locomotive Works at a total cost of about $25.000,000, it was announced today. About 10,000 freight cars for service in France, costing about $1%000.000, will bo ordered with- ina few days OVER 300,000 POUNDE OF SMOKELESS POWDER BURNED Warehouse of Dupont Powder Co. at Carney’s Point Destroyed Wilmington, Del.. August 1.—Fire of unknown origin early today destroved a warehouse of the Dupont Powder Company at Carney’s Point, on the Delaware River opposite ity. - | More than 300,000 pounds of powder was burned, causing a loss of about $200,000. No one was hurt. Promotions in the Marine Corps. ‘Washington, July ?1.—These promo- tions in the marine corps were approv- ed today by Presiden: Wilsoa: Briga- dier General John A. Lejeune to be a permanent major general; Brigadier Genefal L. W. T. Waller {o be a tem- porary major general, and James E. Mahoney, Be: Colonels Charles G. Lon: Wendell " Ne- Radford,” John T. Mey iamin H. s Fulle le, Cyrus porary brigadier generals, the govern- | Condensed Telegramsl ‘l; The harvest of wheat and oats is in full ‘swing. An Allied Chamber of Commerce has ! been organized in Buenos Aircs. The War Department announced the organization Yale Univer: | i f a signal corps unit at Major-General Baron Marschfall has | become chief of the German Emperor’s | military cabinet. One man was killed when the Am- erican steamer Tippecanoe was® tor- pedoed ‘and sunk .Thursday. Sy George Sylvester Viereck was author of the German plan to buy a paper in each of thirty leading American citiés. *Thirty persons were killed and 60 injured when a ' Japanese munition train blew up at Shimonoseki, Japan. Yesterday’s casualty list reveals that a soldier named Shannon, of 222 Wil- braham road., Springfield, Mass., has died. The sale of War Saving and Thrift Stamps announced by the Treasury amounted to $85,055015 for the week of July Dedication of the new headquarters building of the United Ch: ociety of ian Endeavor took place yester- in Boston. Thomas Francis Anson, the third Earl of Lichfield, was found dead with a gunshot wound in the head at his estate in Stafford. Bertha Hchter, 12 years old, of Ho- boken, N J,, was drowned while bath- ing in the Housatonic river at South Britain last night. All men civilians attached to the army are prohibited in a .War De- partment order from taking gold with them to foreign port: of Washington. Pa. airplane accident while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. Major-Gen. Williams, chief of ord- nance, announced that an airplane flare having a brillianey of 400,000 candle power has been perfected. Coal movement by railroad in the eastern region thi month increased from 153 543 to 192, cars over the corresponding time last year. Reports have reached the te de- partment in a roundabout that Ambassador Francis and all the allied diplomats left Vole~1 July 23. —_— Secretary Houston reported to the Senate that practically all the phos- ‘hate rock produced in this country is being used for agricultural purp: The biggest appropriation demanded since the begging of the war will be submitted to the House of Commons tomorrow. It will represent £700,- 000 000. O. H. Cheer of McCann & Co., Pitts- I'burgh, joined the Food Administration as a volunteer export in the retail dis- pouitry. | - Striking shoe cutters at a mass mee at Brockton, Mass., refused to return . to work on recommendation of ithe state board of conciliation and ar- bitration. | _The American Flint Glass Workers’ Union was granted another increase in wages by the National Association of Manufacturers of Pressed and Blown Glassware. Dr. Von Kuehlmann, former Ger- man foraign secretary, will be a can- didate for the reichstag at a coming by-election in Berlin, the Vossische Zeitung Eighteen persons, indicted for al- leged thefts of beef from the army quartermaster’s department, pleaded not guilty in the federal court in New York yesterday. A freight steamer bound north through the Cap Cod canal ran into the Sagamore hizhway bridge during a heavy fog early Tuesday, demolish- ing the structure One hundred and twenty cranemen at the Fore River and Squantum plants of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding cor- poration, who struck Tuesday, returned to work yesterday. Forty-five Cambridge men who ar- rived at Camp Devens yesterday pro- tested when they learned they had becn classified as conscientious object- ors by their draft board. The Department of Agriculture an- nounced that, though lack of shipping 40,000 tons of nitrates from Chile, con tracted for delivery in February, can- not be shipped this year. Commandeering of the yellow pine industry of the south may be resorted to by Chairman Baruch of the war in- dustries board unless the government's needs are fully supplied. Two coffee cencerns were ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to dis- continue the distribution of premium coupons redeemable for articles of un- |equal value based on chance. The price_of milk to the consumer in Greater Boston during August and | September has been fixed at 15 cents |a quart and 8 1-2 cents a pint by the New England regional milk commis- sion, Decisions by the war labor board on ages and workifiz conditions of street r conductors and motormen in vari- jous cities, inclucing Boston and Provi- !dence, .probably will be handed down | today. | George Ehret, the New York brewer, { who property recently was taken over {by the government because of his | residence in Germany since the United | States entered the war, is now report- jed to be in Dermark | A delegation of labor leaders under i Bourke Cockran, of New York, called lat the White House to ask the Presi- | |dent to transfer the case of Thomas | Mooney from the California state court { to the Federal courts. i | The Cudahy Packing company of IChch-:(\ was ordered by the federal trade commission to discontinue its practice .of -ompelling to maintain the compal | price of “Old Dutch Cleanser.” jobbers Members of the Cuban mission, which is authorized to negotiate a sale of the 1919 sugar crop to the United Sttes, conferred in New York with the Inter- national Sugar Committee. The price- fixing was % for the government. Flight Cadet George Ruple Wallace, | was killed in an| tribution of butter, eggs, cheese and; fixed re-sale | WARS COSTING U.S. $50,000,000 A DAY 3 America’s Expenses Are Running About:SO Per Cent Higher Than Those of Great Britain - OUR NATIONAL WAR DEBT IS $12,500,000,000 The United States Has Superseded Great Britain as the Financial Source From Which the Other Allied Nations Draw, But the Loans Made By Great Britain Still Exceed By One Quarter the Aggregate of Loans Made By This Country—United States is Now Collecting About ;4,- 000,000 By Taxation Annually. Washinston, July 31 (by A. P).— America’s war expenses now are run- ning about 30 per cent. higher than those of Great Dritain, it was shown today by comparison of treasury re- poris and a newly ed British financial statement. Owing to the shorter time the United States has been in the war, however, her natio war debt is only one-third as larze a that of Great Britain. and the indi- vidual burden of taxation in \this country now is only about one-half as much as it is in England. Although the United largely superseded Great Britain as the financial reservoir on which the other aliied nations draw, the aggre- zate of such loans by this country still is one-fourth less than Great Britain's. The monthly cost of the war to the United States now is about $1,500 000 - 600, inc! loans to ailies, while Great Dritain’s expenses are running in the neighbornood of $1,000,000,000 a month. The United States is spend- ing about £50000,000.000 a day, or more thun $2,900,000 an hour. The nation’s war debt is now a little less than § 500,000,000, as_compared with Great $35.675.000,000. Defore the war, both nations col- lected about the same amount _of taxes every year, approximately $1.- 000.000,000. Now Great Britain collects 70,000,000 and the Uniteq States ut’ $4000 006 000, but the population in America is doublt that of Great Britain. 1f this country's taxes were proportionately as heavy, the Ameri- can people would be called on to fur- nish annuaily about $5,000,000,000 by | ixation, or the amount which the treasury proposes should be raised this year under the new reventie bill now being framed by the house ways and means committee. 4 States has STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF BELL TELEPHONE 004‘ KAISER ISSUES PROCLAMATION o] TO GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY. Warns Them That They Are Facing the Hardest Struagles of the War. Calling Upen All Employes of the Line! to Maintain Their Loyalty. New York, July.3l—Theodire N. Va‘le, president of the American Bell Telephone Company. today issued a statement to all emploves of the Bell lines asking them to continue to show Ftheir fine sense of oblization and loyalty and fidelity to the public ser- vice” under zovernment control, which begins tonight at midnight that they have displaved in the past. The state- ment was issued after a meeting held by the company’s officers to discuss continuation of their duties under the federal regime. Tt was indicated that it was expected that the companv’s af- fairs_would run along virtually as usya.l. - J Ar. Vail said AHat -at ‘4" conference in Washington the postmaster-general asked co-opération and ' assistance! “He was equally emphatic in the state: ment of his desire to conserve the ser- ice and properties of the companies with a, view to returninz them when { called upon to do so to the owners in | as zood condition as received” ° Mr. Vail added. ‘Tt was his desir> that the owners should receive just compen- sation in the full sense for their use. “The postmaster-general, until oth- er instructions are issued, desires that e conduct of operations shall con- inue as heretofore and also states that no changes. will be made until after consultation and full and careful con- sideration.” Amsterdam, July 31.—Emperor Wil- liam has issued a proclamation, dated Aug. 1, addressed to the German army and navy, saying that they are facing the hardest struggles of the war and expressing his own and the country’s confidence that they will be able to he desperate efforts of the en- says a Berlin despatch received The proclamation reads: “Serious vears of war lie behind.you. The German people. convinced of its just cause, resting on its hard sword and trusting in God's gracious help, has, with its faithful allies. confronted a world of enemies. Your victorious i fighting spirit carried the. war in,.J }first vear inte -the enemy's country 2nd preserved the homeland from. the horrors and devastation of war. “In the second and third years of the war, you, by your destructive blows, broke the strength of the enemy in the east. Mednwhile, your comrades in the west offereq a brave and victo- rious front to enormously superior forces. - “As the fruit of these victories, the fourth year of the war has brought us peace in the east. In the west the enemy was heavily hit by the force of your assault. The battles won in re- cent months count among the highest deeds of fame in German history. “You are in the midst of the hardest struggle. The desperate efforts of the enemy will, as hitherto, be foiled by your bravery. Of that I am certa and, with me, the entire Fatherland. WOULD CUT PRODUCTION , OF PNEUMATIC TIRES In August and September 50 Per Cent. Less Than Last Year. ANOTHER PEACE LETTER BY MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE Read at a Conference of His Support- ers in London Yesterday. London, July 31.—Another letter on peace prospects. written by the Mar- | a quis of Lansdowne, was read at . : Conterence of his Supporters today:| New York July 3L—Fifty per cent. | This Tatest utterance proposes no new | cut in_production of pneumatic tires | policy; it consists largely of criticism |in August and September, as com- of the allies for their failure to state|Pared with the same months last year, their wa1 aims more specifically and | Was asked of the rubber industry in & | urges them to take advantage of any |letter from George X. Peek. commis- opportunity for a discussion of terms. | Sioner of finished products of the war e Shict impartance of Tord Tans. |industries board, which was read De- downe's letter is that he is the only|fore 400 members of the trade at a British statesman of first rank who | meeting here today. This reduction i< listed n his own country and|Yould be exclusive of government bus- | abroad, whe! o erwise, | iness. 3 O e O e wes| . Mz. Peck in his letter also asked for given the greatest publicity in the |'eStriction in the manufacture of all £ = other rubher articles, pointing out that the amount of crude rubber being con- sumed is far in excess of the import tonnase licensed. After assertion by small manufac- turers that the request would work a hardship on them, the war service committee of the rubber industry adopted a resolution asking that the restrictions be altered to allow an out= put of automebile casings and tubes during August and ‘eptember equal in volume to the average monthly pro- duction for the first six months of the vear. This resolution was sent to Mr. Peck. countries of the central powers, where s insisted they represent a power- n of British thought. eauchamp presided over the Ruckmaster. few and conference, and Baron former lord chancellor, pacifist members of the commons attended. A s letter from Arthur Henders bor leader in the house of commons, was read. and a lords The n Laosdowne ietter has been ally received in political cir- s he zeneral parliameatary opin- ion is said to be well summarized in the comment of “one member of the house of commons: “The letter is sim- ply an elongation of Lansdowne’s pre- vious pronouncement but it is an elongatior. leading nowhere TO CO-ORDINATE FOOD SUPPLY AND EXPORT: COMMUNITY GARDEN HAS BEEN OPENED IN BOSTON Commission .is to Be Composed of Two. Men from Each of the Allied Countries. Tondon, July 31.—Announcement was made tonight that the committee of representatives appointed by the food controllers of Great Pritain, France and Italy and the United States to study various programs of food sup- ply ‘and transport and co-ordinate programs amonz the various com: modities with shipping, and supervise their execution will be composed of two men from each country, The Pritish members will be Sir Johm * Beale chairman, and F. L. Turner, gecretary. The names of the other representatives will be announced later. To Prevent Waste from the 30,000 Home Gardens There. Boston ol BTN from 30000 home gardens in metro- politan Boston - a community market was opened today in Horticuitural hall by the Siffolk county food administra- tion for the sale of fresh vegetables. Investigation disclosed that the war gardens were producing food faster than owners could dispose of it and the community market was inaugurat- ed to meet the need. A small charge was made upon every sardener offer- ing products, Prices were below market levels: DUCHESS DE CHOISEUL WINS FRENCH GOLD MEDAL Formerly Claire Coudert, Daughter of Frederick R. Coudert of New York. Paris. July 31.—Th Duchess de * Choiseul has been awarded the French gold medal for activity. in hospital work, according to an_announcement made ‘by the Official dournal today. The duchess formerly was Claire Cou- dert daughter of Frederic R. Coudert, a New York lawyer. H Duchess de Choiseul has heen. active in relief work since the i bogan, devoting her ajtention partic- also ‘declared against any word |ularly to the care of - tuberculosis® or act. hy themselves or others that|French soldiers. Last year she was would obstruct the maximum output |awarded the silver medal for hospil of the plant. | work. MACHINISTS PLEDGE LOYALTY TO WILSON. in the Fore River Yards Tele- goraphed Resolutions. 1,500 Quiney dred machinist: vards of the Bethlehem lcorporation today telegraphed resolu- tions of jovalty to President Wils Voluntars shop meetings adopted the resolatiors, which included pledges®to , July 31—Fi in " the forezo gladly personal advantages and | comfor pursue . that-the government might its course to bring about a il termination of the war. The