Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 18, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 224 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS . FRANCO-SERBIAN OFFENSIVE CONTINUES N MACEDONIA Are Taking From the Bulgars Positions They Have Held for Two Years — Detachments From the Allied Forces Defeat Bolshevik Troops in Vicinity of Archangel ditions. General Petain’s veterans are forg- ing ahead slowly but surely in their grim .and desperate struggie for the Gobain forest which the Germans ve been ordered to hold at all costs. Not only is the position a natural cit- but the Teutons have fortified it v The Associated Press.) While Serbs and their French allies are wrestling from tRe Bulgars some of the strongest positions they have held in Macedonia for® the past|St. cars, Marshal Foch's forces are y at the German he western front in the face = successfu re determined resistance. in every way their ingenuity could|Mass: Edward G. - Bralotie, - Man | East furnished the most [devise. Notwithstanding the ‘ifficulty | chester, N. H.; Nicholas Cappucelo, . news of the day, how-|of their task, however, the French are|Boston, Mass.; Edward J. Conley, he offensive which has been|moving on, taking prisoners as they|Greeneville Junction Maine: Armand there seems not only the|go. o4 |Horton, New Haven, Conn.: Guy H.| ceiful but the most preten-| On the American front the past 24 |Merrill Springfield. Mass: Homan miny months. It appears|hours have been the quietest since|Miller, Brockton ,Mass. 4 abable that a further advance by [(General Pershing’s command launched e he Franco-Serblan troops will nec- | its frresistible drive against the St.| TUESDAY AFTERNOON'S LIST. > the recall of the Bulgarian|Mihiel salient. There are indications| . % ity < ‘which have been loaned to|that the Germans intend to retire be- |, tied (o action 14; missing in ac mperor William to_ bolster the Teu- |hind the Hindenbure line in this sec- | 532, [0 ghoyaded severely 60; died of resistance in France and Fland- | tor. They are burning villazes along | oq*degtee umderormomrs 6r pron. the Moselle and in other sections. This | 7%y 7 DLkl official Sertlan report declares|procedure usually is a preliminary to| ' 5 reconstituted army of the but not beaten little king- < taken not only 3,000 prisoners ut an important park of cannon. The admit having retired but de- | Detachments of the allies have rout-| Private Thomas Meuse, Reading, e attack has been checked 10ed Bolshevik forces in the vicinfly of | Mass . - d north of Gradeshitsa. There is| Archangel and it is reported many of . of Disease. to indicate, however. that the|(he Red Guard officers went over tol po o i e i an he Serbs and French has|the allies when their men fled in panic. | go g "“ g - Erickson, ew held up. The Austrian peace note appears al- | * e T the fighting in the west|ready to have become almost ancient Wounded Severely. rded by military ecritics as|history. The blunt and unmistakable| Corporal Mechanic Charles O. ’ ¢ prelude to further heavy|refuszl of President Wilson to parley ! Thiese, Thompsonville, Conn. foe by the American,|with the Central Powers except upon| Private Stanley Joinrog, Basthamp- s French armies. the terms he previously ~has laid {ton, Mass. The sh advanced their lines |down seems to have voced the sentic Missing in Action. “hily at several points. They are|ments of the Entente. ey are v < A Ao, . teady progress in the in-|likely to let the reply of the United ne:r{\‘lf,f Frank A. Cosentino, Gard tment of St. Quentin. a difficult | States suffice for all as they Aid in the 3 _ ek AL e B even undtr most favorable con- of the Papal neace proposal 0 'BEATHS. 1N HEW ERGLAND — = S 2 s FROM INFLUENZA IN 24 HOURS REV. J. N. LACKEY ACCEPTS CHAPIN, SLAYER OF WIFE, Boston, S PROHIBITION NOMINATION | fartford, Conn., Sept. 17.—Formal| New York, Sept. 17.—Charles B.|jgurs ending tonight. In Boston hers otificatior. of his nomination for gov- | Chapin. city ‘editor of the New York | vere 35 deaths from influenza, inchad. rmor on the prohibition ticket was|Evening World, noted for the skill|ing three naval.men, and 57 from en to Rev. Dr. J. Newton Lackey |¢kill with which he directed his re : a meeting in Olivet Baptist church, ning. Truman J. Spencer of | teries, today in a police station de-|heen badly crippled by ihe spread hi who was chairman of the |scribed how he killed his wife. Yes-|the gisease, u’tp\e deaths |¥om x:f tate convention made the address to|terday he shot her in their apartment|fienza were reported o RO, in the Hotel Cumberland and today | " Fvery effort to check the spread of Dr. Lackey, accepting the honor, |surrendered himself to the police af:|iafluenya was being mads ang. the aid in part after stating that he fully | ter failing to carry out plans to end|health authorities in this city said ealized what the responsibility was: | his own life. | tiiey felt confident they had the situa- The problem of winning the war is moking a cigar and continually | tion in hand. ¥ pars interest to every loyal|pressing his hands on his head, he| A¢ the forts in' Boston harbor it Ameri at is our first and fore- | said that he had been driven to the |y stated that all the hospital beds most ¢ other tasks are of sec- |deed through desperation caused bY|ywere occupied by influenza patients. ondary importance. Loyalty to our|the demands of his creditors. At Camp Devens there are 3500 cases, ountry, therefore, demands that we| Approach of a poiiceman, he de-|1.iiniy among negro soldiers from the fress everything that militates | clared, prevented his suicide in Pros | south, rainst us in our gigantic task or|pect park, Brooklyn. where;he Went! The American Red Cross tonight is- “r< ws in our grest pur-|after shooting his wife. ued The greatest step we can take to- yps i tonight to the Tombs prison. The inq awaiting orders were requested. (o ! rds winning the war is the suppres. | case may be presented (o the grand | report at once at the headquarters of ¢ the liqour traffic. * * ® +It|Jury tomerrow, i ste manhood when the nation eeds its best.” Dr. Lackey urged ratification by the ext legislature of the federal prohi- | nendment GERMAN TEXTBOOKS TAKEN FROM WEST HAVEN SCHOOL —Tvery Haven New Havenm, Conn, Sept. 17 textbook in the West school, near here, disapy nt, presumabiy throv of patriotically inclined per- Monday classes in the study of had the necessary books and in the desks at clove of ses- sday morning nonme of the an 100 German works could be When the school closed last 123 pupile were in the Gi fin m nd 108 some n classes dropped to but few 2, West Edward C. Stiles, | Haven school sys. 1del, was Heid without hail, torney o'clock yesterday to Chapin, shé lited for half an hour, A re- | ne minutes a retreat. Another victory SURRENDERED HIMSELF | porters in the solution of murder my: MeGee, had bought a and nfair to MeGee shot Chapin his wife morning said ng ver regained after consciol Mr. promises to prosecute the offenders, if | the murder, decided that aught. At this American Headquarters in France, their identity. Whether the district | able thing to do was to surrender him- | Sept. 17. — (Reuter's.) — Magnificent I replace the text books is still an|self.” A request which he made to-|work of the American aviators under pen question. night to attend wife's funeral to- |most difficult weather conditions mu - morrow has been refused. | not he forgotten in telling the story of BRIDEGPORT MACHINISTS Mr. McGee said that Chapin, a rel-|the St. Mihiel victory. To them was TO RETURN TO WORK TODAY [ative of Russeil Sage, had told him |entrusted every kind of mission which | Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 17.—Presl- |his life story, relating how he had|fal's to a flving man’s lot. but the t Wilson's order to manufacturers |founded a small paper in the westtask in which they distinguished © to reinstate employes seeking to | When he was a boy and had risen o be | themselves most, perhaps, was ha- return Irom strike generally ‘will be | ity editor of a New York dally. rassing the enemy’s withdrawal from accepted tomorrow with the possible — - the deepest part of the salient. exception of two plants where govern- ment orders have been withdrawn as result of strike conditions. These are the Liberty Ordnance com- plant of the American Can com- and the Feeney Tool works. The anagement of these plants admjtted night that the men would probably e re ted within 48 hours, or as work could be found for them. | ug of machinists tonight re- a resolution that all men not employed should return to work oday under the assumption that the vresident's order will be complied ¥ith OBITUARY. Cardinal John M. Farley. Mamaroneck, N. Y., Sept. 17.—Cardi- ngl John M. Farley, archbishop of New York died at his country home here togight. The aged prelate had been sinking rapidly since he suffered a re- lapse last Saturday after partial re- overy from an attack of pneumonia. indeed, for the last three days phy- sicians attending the eardinal have cen expecting his death hourly. Al- though he rallied today from several sinking spells, no hope was entér- tained for his recovery hortly after 3 p. m. it was evident that the end was near. At his bedside were three doctors, Bishop Hayes of New York. Monsignar Carroll. the cardinal's _private eecretary, Vicar General Lavell and Monsignor Mooney. “The end came peacefuily and beau- titully” sald Bishop Hayes, Several priests in the room, who were saying prayers for the dying, were unaware that death had come until the ghysicians stepped back from the bed The cardinal was stricken with hypostatic pneumonia at hi§ summer home here about six weeks; ago. He was born April 20, . 1842, at Newton Hamiiton, County’ Aramagh, Ireland, the son of Philip and Cath- erine (Murphy) Farley. His father was an innkeeper. Both parents died when the boy was only .7 years old, and he was left largely ‘to make his own way, He succeeded in getting a fair education at St. Marcartan's, a college in the neighdorhood of his home, and he proved to be not owly a brilliant student but s popular one, for he was known as the comedian of his class and 2 peacemaker among his fellows. i INFLUENZA AT CAMP DEVENS NOT ALARMING 17.—In_or®r ailay anxiety over the epidemic of in- fluenza which has filled the has pital at Camp Devens with patients, Lieutenant Colonel C. C. McCormack, division surgeon, newspapermen at the cantonment to- day the exact status of the disease. He vointed out that although there had been 3,500 cases, this represented a small proportion of the population of the camp and that already six hun- dred_men had been discharged from the hospital Ayer, Mass., TAX ON PICTURE THEATRES ‘Washington, Sept. 17.—Salaries up- ward of $3,500 a week each to motion picture absorb profits of business. although the rentals in the United States and Canada amount to 370,000,000 a vear, the senate finance committee was toid today by Willlam A. Brady and Walter W. Irwin, rep- resenting the motion picture industry. ‘They appeared to protest against the proposed increase from 10 to 20 per cent. in the tax on admissions and an additional tax of 10 per cent. on rent- als in the new war evenue bill. Vaughn, torney, hundred feet. Sept as cured. JURY FOR TRIAL OF ARMY RAINCOAT GRAFTER® { Nw York, Sept. 17.—A jury was se- lected this afternoon at the trial in the federal court of Captain Aubrey W. Gouled, a promoer, and David L. Podell, an at- with de- frayding the United States govenr- ment in the sale af army raincoats. Taking of evidence will begin tomor- row. U. 8. A, Pelix who are charged had _selected 1o be placed over theip zrav McGee stated that C said he had gone to Maine last June to commit suicidg but had decided it leave behind him ife, who was marfied to him in Mil- waukee. Mr. her death he ceived morning newspapers from the | This fall the number|hellboy and later left the hotel. After describing {ments yesterday has started an investigation and | editor, on reading today an Chapin’s McGee said explained There has been recorded for the American, PBritish and French on the newly constituted eastern front. 'hapin was taken According to Assistant District At-. Chapin “told him that not only had he intended to ecommit- ! icide in Washington four vears ago but that he had intended to kill his | wife there: cemetery | men Mr. plot a hapin confess bere at Accordin: usness. hos to been oniy three deaths fraceable to|“ceiling” to use the airmen's tech- the disease. The majority of the|nical term, was little more than a e ate, Lghit. thousand feet high and the dense i rain occasionally made everything in- OPPOBITION TO INCREASING visible a few vards away. but not one the HARTFORD AVIATOR ONE OF TWO KILLED IN TEXAS Gingsville, Texas, Sept. 17.—Lieu- tenant Davidson of Elizabeth, and Lieutenant Gillette of Hartford, Conn. were killed here today when | the airplane in which they were fly- ing went into a nose dive and crashed to the ground from a height of several The men were members of an airplane squadron temporarily attached to Park Field here. in a monu- also | e move- the ceount of | instead of me he has no clue | committing suicide, “the only honor- to the have film N3, Cabled Paragraphs 66 German Plains Accounted For. London, Sept. 17. — Sixty-six Ger- man airplanes were accounted for by the British along their lines vester- day. Seven of the hostile machines were destroyed in one engagement b. a British squadron. Sixteen British machines are missing. 325 NAMES IN LATEST ARMY CASUALTY LISTS Washington, Sept. 17.—The foliow- ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 37; missing in ac- tion 12; wounded severely 74; died of wounds 16; wounded, degree unde- termined §; died of disease 1; wound- ed slightly 1; total 147. New England men are: Wounded Severely. Corporals — Mechanic William H. Stoddard, Springfield, Mass. Privates—John T. Achilles, Roxbury, Killed in Action. Private Charles H. Cleland, Water- bury, Conn. Died of Wounds. pt. 17. — Influenza and aused more than seventy in New Englard within the 24 pneumonia death, pneumonia. In Brockton and nearby towns, where the shoe factories have a mobilization call for nurses. nurses enrolled in the Red Cross Ali {the New England di ciety- here. Two thousand sailors at the Com- maonwealth Pier were transferred tem- rorarily to the old miltia muster rounds at [Framingham. Several hundred cases of influenza have heen | reported among the sailors at the | vier. In the First Naval Districz 170 new cases were reported, a &ecrcase of 87 from vesterday. At the headquarters of the Second Naval District in New- port, R. I, it was said that there was 197 new cases in the district and 1301 mong the civilian population of New_ t. Rear Admiral Joseph W. Omon commandant of the Second District, said “On ion of the so- | i | | i | the whole the situation shows marked improvement and it is believ- ed that the heizht of the epidemic his heeri passed.” MAGNIFICENT WORK BY THE AMERICAN AVIATORS! A careful study had been made of the roads by which the German trans- port must move and these observa- tions turned out to be strikingly ac- curate, showing that the Germans had thougat out quite as carefully as the Americans the exact spot which would remair open longest. This was the gap between Vigneulles and Thiau- court with St. Benoit as the center. Tt thus happened that the American air- men found the transport trains exact- v where they expected to find them and their attempts to enforce delay were most daring. Owing to the weather conditions the of the selected roads was left unat- tacked. Ths aviators swooped down into the woodland roads, flving only forty feet from the ground to make sure of their targets. Lorry after lor- ry was wrecked and wagon teams torn to pieces by skiltully dropped bombs or machine gun fire. NEWBERRY SPENT $176,568 IN SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN ‘Washington, Sept. 17.—Investigation begun by the department of justice into expenditures of funds in recent senatorial and congressional cam- paigns in a number of states may be followed by inquiries by the senate elections committee into expense ac: counts of candidates for nomination to the senate. A resolution authorizing the com- mittee to inquire into expenditures in the recent primary in Michigan, in which Truman H. Newberry received the republican nomination. for senator, and in any other state where large expenditures appear unwarranted, wa¥ introduced in the senate today by | Senator Pomerene of Ohio; democrat. | | In offering his resolution Senator | Pomerene filed a_copy of the expense account of Mr. Newberry in his cam- | paign, which showed total contri tions of $178.875 and a ‘otal espendi- | ture of $176.58%® Contributions to the | fund, according to the report, ranged from $1 to $99.000. The Cook—Is Dibbs up vet? The Butler—He is. 1 carried him| up myself at 3 o'clock this morning. —Michigan Gargoyle. that rounder Van | YALE ONLY UNIVERSITY |son Phelps Stokes, secretary | eering, | hetween the Scottish Rite Masons of Further Restriction in Brewing of Beer After Oct. 1 No Foodstuffs| Except Barley, Malt and! Hops May Be Used—Good Stock on Hand. Washington, Sept. 17.—Use of any foodstufis except barley malt and hops in the brewing of beer and near- beer after next October 1 is prohibited by a proclamation signed today by President Wilson. The president pre- viously had ordered the brewing of all_beer stopped next December 1. The proclamation signed today was not made public nor did the food ad- ministration issue any statement ex- plaining the conditions vhich had caused it to recommend the action to the president. It was understood, how- ever, that the purpose was to conserve stocks of corn and rice. which in re- cent vears have been largely substi tuted for barley in brewing. In announcing the new- order, Food Administration officials said ~ today that even after the breweries are| shut down December 1 they will have ! on hand in their vats sufficient stocks | of beer to last from two to six momths, The sale of this will not be prohibited. TEN PERSONS PERISH IN A FIRE AT NEWARK Newark, N. J,, Sept. 17.—Trapped in a cloak room on the top foor. eight girls, a boy and a man perished here today in a fire which destroyed the plant of the American Button com- pany. Another girls was killed when, seeking to escape from the flamnes, she leaped from a window. e other girls were injured, several fatally. - At 2 oclock the factory hummed with the industry of more than 300 young womtn engaged in making but- tons for army ang navy wmiforms. At 3.30 the building was a flame-swept ruin, the top floor of which formed a tomb for workers who had been driven into the cloak room by fames and smoke. At 4.30 the fire virtually was extinguished and the task of identify- ing victims begun. The girls on the lower floors made their escape, some by jumping and others by the fire escapes. Most of the dead and. injured were working in the carding room at the top of the building. It is belieeq that when they found escape by means of fire escapes and stairways cut off they fled in a panic to the cloak room, where their bodies later were found huddled to- gether. All were burned beyond rec on and it was only through trin- kets and bits of scorched attire that dentification was at all possible. Driven into the cloak room, which had but one window, only one girl summoned up courage to jump to the street below, She died almost imme- diately of her injuries The fire started in cans of lacquer stored on the second floor, according to Supt. Frederick W. Goerdes, who said that an explosion resulted when a defectively insulated electric wire came in contact with one of the cans. The flames spread rapidly to the | Toof and meafly a hundred men and | girls at work on the third floor found that not only.was escape by ‘means of interior stairs cut off, put that their only other means of exit. a fire escape, was swept by flames which. spurted throngh windows. It was the signt of this seemingly impassabie barrier that threw the girls into a panic. Several girls jumped from windows, but most of thém ran the zauntlet of flame and | reached the street by the fire escape. Most of the workers on the top floor also descended the fire escape and those who perished lost their lives only when they climbed back after de- scending part way. Running into the cloak room, they closed the door behind them, thinking to shut out the flame, but the door was soon burned down. One girl was een on the window sill and evidently | was preparing to jump to the ground when suddenly shé toppled over back- | wards. Several sailors and soidiers. who hastened to the fire, attempted to reach the upper floors and rescue the workers, but they were driven back by smoke and flames WITH ARTILLERY TRAINING | New Haven Conn. Sept. 17.—An nouncement was made today by An-| of Yale | University, that Yale would have the ! only artillery training school connect- | ed with any American university and | that in addition all men being pre- | pared for laboratory positions in field, base and mobile hospitals ard mobile laboratories abroad would be trained at the Yale Army Laboratory School. It had previously been made known that Yale would be the center of the training for siznal corps work. Major Samuel A. Welldon, a grad- uate ‘of Harvard, the Fort Sill School of Fire and the artiliery school at Me- ucon, France, will be in command, as- sisted by officers of the regular army and Yale faculty men who have taken specia!_training. The Yale naval trafning unit will be continued ~as will _the intensive training of special soldiers in engin- chemistry and premedical tudies. The university's dirmitories wil: become barracks and the univer- sity dining hall the mess house for stulents and soldiers sent to Yale for specialized work, The making of Yale a center of ar- tillery training follows the commis- sioninz of 168 Yale men of the Re- serve Officers’ Training Corps who | were sent. this summer to Camp Jack- | son, South Carolina. and previous| fraining in college made them avail- able for training rec at the Unit- ed States army artiliery camp. 106TH ANNUAL MEETING SUPREME COUNCIL OF MASONS | Boston, Sept. 17.—Prussianism was bitterly arraigned by Barton Smith of | Toledo, O., sovereign grand com- mander of the supreme council, An- cient Accepted Scottish Rite of Iree Masonry, in his allocution at the 106th annual meeting of the northern juris- diction of the order heve today. “That which would destroy all that we love must itself be destroyed,’ he declared, “‘until every vestige of the malignant growth of Prussianism has been eliminated and the world re- stored to health, happiness and hope. George W. Hugo, grand minister of state of the southern jurisdiction, brought greetings from Masons of the south to their northern brothers. Sir Joha Gibson, past sovereizn com- mander @ the supreme council of Canada, said that the cordial relations the United States and Canada had been strengthened by the war. " This evening 120 candidates from various sections of the northern juris- diction received the 33d degree, form- ing the largest class in the history of the rite. A Reign of Terror in Central Russia Citizens of the Entente Na tions are Reported to Be in Danger — Work of Bol- Washington, Sept. ‘1 reaching the State department today from a neutral country hrew mnew light on the situation in central Rus. ia, where a reign of terror conduct the Bolshevilki has made ' the positions of the populace tragic in the extreme and is endangering citizens of the Entente powers, who have been unable to leave the country. Declaring that the outside world cannot have a true conception of tie actual conditions, the despatches said that since May, the Bolsheviki extra- ordinary commission pgainst the counter-revolution h: conducted a campaign of wholesale murder. Thou- sands of persons have been shot with- out even a form of a (rial, it was said, and many of them probahly were innoccent of the political views for which they were executed. sky, head of the commission against the counter-revolution, and the at- tempt on the life of Premier Lenine were direct results of this condition of tyranny, said the advices. Besides the 500 persons who were shot in connection with the death of Urit a large number of other persons are held for execution in the event that further attempts are made on - tg lives of the Bolsheviki leaders, A general search is beinz made of the homes in Moscow of the well-to- do and of former officers in an effort to secure any shred of evidence upon which to make arrests, said the des- patches. The prisons are filled to overflowing and executions continue daily. In many cases, it was said, sentences are passed upon the slight grounds that the aceused mizht be dangerous to Bolsheviki power. In addition, irresponsible and avengeful ganss are venting upon in- nocent persons their desperation over the delay concerninz power of the Bolsheviki while ‘the socialists, who are opposing the Soviet government, have adopted the same methods that they once used agzainst the tyranny of the imperial government. All newspapers in Moscow, except the Bolsheviki organs, have been sup- pressed since July 1, the despatcies added, and in these are to be pub- lished names of persons executed or held prisoners in connection with the killing of. Uritsky HOW GERMAN TRICKERY DECEIVED THE UKRAINE Washington, Sept. 17. — German trickery in beating the Ukraine aw from the bought-and-paid-for Bol- shevik government, plots against loyal Russian soldiers and their leaders to insure complete German sway _after the false peace conference at Brest- Litoysk, and further evidence of the precautions of the Teutons against Bolsheviki preaching in their own ranks are shown in today's install- ment of secret documents frvede public by, the United-States gov- ernment. Communications written in January disclose that the Bolsheviki were fully informed of what the Germans were doing in the Ukraine, and knew that peace treaties with the UKraine and Roumania were coming. They also learned quickly enough that Germany was _disposing of their hopes to see revolutionary -'propaganda take root in_German soit: Notes from sthe German intelligence service to Tréisky, the commisar of foreign affairsshow first that a Turk h a Russidispassport was sent to Petrograd to -Kéep watch® over the an commandar-in-chief, and that a month afterward, late in February removal of the commander-in-chief, General Bonch Bruvick. was demand- ed. Bruevick, whose continuance in the position was “particularly no long- er desirable” to the G turned but and General Parski, by the German intelligence was appointed to command the Petro. grad disgrict. The significance of the documents is discussed in notes by Edgar who brought the document Russia for the Committee on Public Information. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TAKEN New York, Sept erious epidemic of Spanish in this city; the board of health teday ordered’ physicians to report within 24 hours all cases of the mew disease, as well as all cases of pneu- monia. “In Boston a great many cases of Spanish infiuenza have been found” said Health Commissioner Copeland, “and naturally some of those affected will come to this city by railroads; bringing the serms with them. It would .be_impossible for the depart- reent to check up these cases, and the result would be an epidemic here.” Dr. Copeland said the only cases found| here have bzen amorg sailors in the navy or those arriving on mer- chantmen from foreign ports. The patients have all been quarantined. Three cases of influenza were re- ported today in Jersey City. One pa- tient is a soldier on home leave from Camp Di 17.—To prevent a ARRESTED FOR IMPER®DNATING AN OFFICER OF THE NAVY New Haven, Conn. Sept. 17.—Three charges have been lodged against Charles Dolliver, & man of many aliases, arrested here yesterday by Chief McMahon of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad com- pany. After investigation by federal agents of the department of justice, {he was formally accused of unlawfully wearing the uniform of a naval offi- cer, of impersonating an officer of the navy and of failing. to register on Sept. 12. He will be given a hearing before United States Commissioner William A. Wright tomorréw. In addition to the federal charges, the New Haven police state that Dolliver has passed at least three fraudulent checks here. FEDERAL AND STATE GAME LAWS ARE TO BE ENFORCED Hartford, Conn., Sept. 17.—Superin- tendent John M. Crampton, of the fish and game commission authorized the statement today that the state laws would be enforced by. the commission during the hunting season and that in accordance with an understanding with T. W. Nelson chief of the geo- logical ‘survey in Washington, the state law will take precedence of the federal statute except that the enact- mert which will provide for the small- er bag shall be enforced. The duck shooting season in this stale begins Ottober 1 and will continue until Jan- uary 15 of next year. Information | ¢ { from IN NEW YORK | influen- | | Condensed Telegrams The American labor mission arrived in_ltal; The “strike of policemen cinnati was called off. The wheat crop of Western Can- ada is estimated at 150,000,000 bushels. The War Trade Board placed bird seed on the list of restricted import: A campaign for the seventh Aus. jtrialian War Loan of £40 000,000 was begun. The American Red Cross appropri- ated $2000,000 for relief work in Switzerland. Production of bituminous coal for thef week Sept. 7, amounted to 11,249,- 1000 tons. During the month ended Aug. .10 gold comn to the amount of $4,376,000 was exported. Dr. Edward B. Western, 72, known as the “father of modern archery,” is dead in Chicago. Student soldiers in New York Uni® versity are bing taught the shortest and quickest route to Berlin. The war minerals production bill | was sent to conference yesterday to| adjust senate and house differences. | The Farm Loan Board announces that loans amounting to $8,000,000 were advanced to farmers during Aug- t ust. The War Department announced that 122 more American soldiers were | taken prisoners. Five were lieuten- ants. H Abel Ferry, member of the Chamber | of Deputies, is dead from wounds r ceived at the front a few days ago. Red Cross workers are requested to devote part of their time to collecting platinum and tin for the Government. Invesigation of the high cost of | living is under way in New York and Baltimore by the Department of] Labor. William Easley, colored, of Water- bury, arged with the murder of his wife, vesterday senttnced to} life imprisonment. Practices of carriers in handling less than car load shipments of eggs are held unlawful by the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Herman N. Cohen, a government in- spector was arrested on a charge of taking a bribe for passing army shirts of inferior material. George B. Martin, democrat, ap- pointed to succeed the late Senator James of Kentucky, took the oath of office yesterday in the senate. The purchase of 189 acres on Green Island, near Albany, Mich., where a plant will be erected by the Ford Mo- tor C was announced. Surgeon-General Blue of the public |hedlth service announced that within | a month “Spanish” influenza will ! spread over the whole country Found abandoned in a rooming | house, Chicago police believe a five- year-old girl, who says she is Alma Berger, was kidnapped from Brooklyn. Cotton thread is being sold by the rd in Belgium. Eggs cost 20 cents | in Cin- |azate CUNGRESS SQUARELYBACKOFP ions of Approval in Both Branches—Senator Lodge Declared President’s Course Both Wise and Right. Washington, ' Sept. 17. — Austria’s peace offensive is a closed incident so far as the American government . is concerned. Secretary - Lansing sent to the Swedish minister today the note au- thorized last night by President” Wil- son flatly rejecting in two short sen- tences the proposal of the Austro- Hungarian government for secret and non-binding peace discussions. It was started on the cables at once for transmission to Vienna by the foreign office at Stockhoim. The president's action—including the precedent-setting brevity of the reply and the promptness with which it was delivered—drew _expressions of ap- proval during the day everywhere in Washington. at the -capitoi, among officials and throughout the allied diplomatic corps. Similar responses from the other nations at war with; Germany are expected to follow quickly. In the senate, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, republican floor leader and the ranking minority member of | the foreign " relations committee, | voiced the feelings of congress on the | subject in a prepared speech heartily approving the . president’s course as both wise and right. The United only to a Germany beaten and de- prived of power further to harm a ongeq world. He was followed by nator McCumber of republican, and Senator Thomas of Colorado, democrat, with like expres- sions, - On’ the house side. Representative Fess of Ohio, chairman of the repub- lican congressional committee, spoke in approval, declaring that the quick reply might “jar upon diplomatic ears, but is justified as a rebuke to the double dealing of our enemy.” TUnequivocal rejections of the Aus- trian offer from all the allies will be in accordance with the general policy which has governed the entente pow- ers and América in meeting the Ger- man peace offensives. Prompt action is regarded as the surest means of de- feating the underlying purpose of the central powers to shake the allies and develop fatal weaknesses by the en- States. the senator said. can talk peaee | ited fields of secret discussion of war issues, Austria may attempt a coup by assemting to a restriction of the discussion to the principles laid down by President Wilson as the only pos- sible basis of peace. It was said authoritatively tody that such a proposition undoubtedly. would be accepted. But this state- ment was accompanied by a signifi- cant reminder of conditions Which must be met preliminary to any such discussion. These are that the central powers must withdraw completely from_all occupied territory in Erance and Belgium, Italy, Russia and Serbia. The Germans must drop the subter- fuge of the Brest-Litoysk treaty made - by Germany with Russian agents, hired to betray their country. They must loosen their hold upon the wheat fields of Ukrainia and the oil wells of Serbia and Russia, and ‘all of this must be doné before America would consent to talk of peace, even upon the basis of the president’s stipulation. Attention was called to the fact that in his reply Secretary Lansing re- ferred to the terms upon which the - United States would consider peace as having been stated repeatedly. That meant not only that the four proposi- tions laid down by President Wilson . n his Fourth of July speech at Mount Vernon must be considered but that they must be considered in connection i with other geclaratfns from the same | sourc orth Dakota, | . It was particularly intended, it was explained, that there should be held in mind the fourteen propositions stated by the president in his address to congress Jan, 8 last. Whereas the Fourth of July speech stated simply broad general principles that should govern any peace discussion, the ad- dress to congress lalgy down details of the proposition and therefore should be the governing utterance. Accordingly, efore the central powers can have any peace discus- sions with the entente powers and America, they must accept-the prinei- ples of: ’ No secret treaties; freedom of the seas except to suppress predatory ma- tions that fail to respect international covenants: the removal of all trade barriers: reduction of armaments; ad- couragement of the expression of the individual aims and views of the sep- states. Foreign Minister Bal- four’s comment yesterday is accepted in Washington as a sufficient indica- tion of the attitude of Great Britain, and it is not doubted similar expres- ions will be forthcoming from other justment of colonial claims with refer- ence to the wishes of the governed | population: the evacuation of Russian | territory and abandonment of eco- Inomic control therein; independence lof Belgium with indemnification: res- | toration of Alsace-Lorraine: readjust- | ment of Italy's frontier; autonomous government for the different nationals {apiece. The price of macaroni hasin- | creased 2660 per cent. since 1914. { More than 300 packing concerns of the United States and Canada will be represented at the annual convention of_the packers in Chicago on Oct. 14. The German mark and Austrian crown advanced sharply in Holland when the peace proposals of Austria were announced in the Sunday pape An embargo on shipments of grain at Kansas City, Omaha, and St was placed by the Railroad Adminis- tration due to congestion at these points. ¥ The Portuguese steamer Leixoes was torpedoed in the North Atlantic five days ago, according to the 16 sailors of the crew that arrived at a Canadian port. A new record in the aerial mail trip between New York and Washington was made by army aviator Hart when he covered the distance in two hours and 12 minutes. - The National Congress of India, }a meeting in Bombay, at lution declaring that the proposals for Louis | adopted a reso- | entente capitals in the next few days. Resarding this phase of the peace | campaign as practically closed. the | administration is now closely watch- ing for the next move on the part of the enemy, for it is not believed that they will abandon their efforts. = It | has been sugested that, denied unlim- i iof Austria-Hungary: evacuation of | Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro: relinquishment of Turkish control of non-Turkish populations; an indepen- dent Polish state, and, finally, a league of nations to guarantee political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. L HOUSE APPROVES NEW INCOME TAX PROVISIONS Washinzton, Sept, 17.—Iucome tax provisions of tHe HEW Fé¥enue law af- | fecting both individuals and corpora- tions and designed to raise $2,376,- 00,000 of the measure's eight billion | dolfar total were approved today by | the house. No chanzes were made in {the rate proposed by the ways and | means_committee and with considera- | tion of the income tax sections ¢ concluded, the house tomorrow ill teke up the war excess profits rroyisions, estimated to vield $3,200,- 000,000. “Two important modificaticns in the | income tax sections were made by the | Home Rule are a definite step toward self-government. A group of Democratic women called lon President Wilson and asked him to {use his influenc to bring about a vote |in the enate on Kederal suffrage be- { fore the November elections. Fuel Administrator Garfield told the { House Interstate Commerce Commit- tee that while the coal production was at a high mark jt was not sufficient to overcome the existing shartage. | " John D. Ryan, Assistant Secretary {of War, and head of the aircraft serv- ice, declared on Wis arrival in Pari the battle-front that he was imuch gratified by the work done by {American aviator: ! Dr. Wilhelm Solf, colonial minister of the Imperial German government, {who was mentioned in _despatches |from neutral countries as going to ireplace Chancellor von Hertling, ar- rived at Sofia. Japanese born California may ac- quire and retain title to real estate, and no violation of the alien land law results, Two German airplanes which had participated in the raid on the rezion of Paris Sunday night were shot down by anti-aircraft suns. They fell in the forest of Compiegne. Bulgarian regiments have arrived at Maubeuge to cooperate with the German troops on the western front. King Christian of Denmark has be- stowed the Grand Cross of the Order i Dannebroz on Dr. Maurice F. Ezan former American minister to Den- mark. This is the hizhest decoration which can be awarded a commoner. Approximately four thousand me were in quarantine today as the re- sult of Spanish influenza breaking cut in the aviation camp of the naval training station at Great Lakes, llis. Rev. Ed: H. Hughes, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, left ston for an Atlantic port where ne ill sail for France within a few da; Several hundred men signed up at Boston for enlistment in the Britis: or Canadian armies have faiied to an- swer the final call for service. Announcement was made by Massachusetts Commission on Wais ways that the mavy department had proposed the purchase of the Boston Drydock with adjacent land for m: chine shop and repair facilitie John T. Robertson, senior memier o fthe stock brokeraze firm 05 G. M. Haffards and company, and well known in New England financial cir- es, died at F i the 25 SOLDIERS KILLED IN TROOP TRAIN CGLLISION Springfield, Mo., Sept. 17.—Twentv- five soldiers’ are reported Killed and tnirty otherg injured in a head-on col- lision between a troop train and a St. Louis and San Francisco freight train one mile east of Marshficld, Mo, to- night. The injured were carried into a rear coach of the troop train. where they were given first aid until the arrival of a relief train from Sprinzfield, A guard immediately was thrown cut around the irack and no one was lowed to approach the wreck. The dead and injured are heing trought to Springfield on the relief train_ which is expected to arrive here at 12,30 o'clock. house at the request of tne ways and | means committee. Liberty bonds of | future issues shall be subjected to the | reduced income tax rate of 12 per {cent, instead of the normal 18 per | cent. rate. Another permits corpora- tiens and individuals in calc: ating itheir income to deduct all interest | paid or accrued. A provision limit- ng such deductions to (he excess of | interest received free as on Liberty bonds was eliminated During the day’s debate, In which | Majority Leader Kitchin took steps to expedite the bill's disposal. express- | ing hope for its passage not later than i next Saturday. many amendments not |approved by the ways and means committee were rejected. At the out- set the house defeated, 132 to 61, the amendment by Representative Mon- tague, of Virginia, democrat, to ex- empt ' future issues of state, county and municipal bonds from federal in- come taxation. Telegrams of protest against this section of ‘the bill sent by many mayors and other local of- ficials to representatives, arrived after the house had acted. Efforts to extend to corporations and partnerships the fifteen per cent. siiowance, given individuals for con- tributions’ to charity also were de- feated after lively digcussion. NO BUGLE SIGNALS IN MODERN WARFARE Washington, Sept. 17.—Methods of modern warfare have climinated one more romantic feature of baitle. An army order just issued by the war de- partment announces changes in driil regulations which prohibit tie use of Lugle signals during an enzagement. The ddnger of the bugle messaze not reaching all the troops as well as the grave possibility that the enemy would be well versed in the calls and would know what to expect are the reasons for the change. A1l orders to squads, platoons and companies are to be given by motions of the hands in the future. EXPLORER STEFANSSON. HAS ARRIVED AT VANCOUVER Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 17—One of the islands which Vilzjalmur Stefan- sson found in the Arctic region is zbout the size of freland. The British flug was raised June 19, 1915, on this nd, which is in what formerly was called the Gustav Adolph sea. Stefansson arrived last night from the north and today conto:nued his journey .to Victoria, where' he will make a report to the Canadian gov- ernment on his experiences in the Arctic for five and one-half years. ARTILLERY ACTIVE IN THE ST. MIHIEL SECTOR Washington, Sept. 17. — Continued activity by the artillery and airplanes in the St. Mihiel sector was reported in General Pershing's communique for today. American patrois keeping in contact with the enemy brought in Irisoners. The statement follows: “Headquarters American Expedi- tionary Forces, Sept. 17, 1918, “Section A: In the St. Mihiel sector the day was quiet except for contin- ued activity of artillery and aviation, ind patrol encounters in 'which we captured prisorers. An enemy raid tin the Vosges wzs repulsed.” TO BEGIN MAILING OF QUESTIONNAIRES TODAY Washington, Sept. 17.—Local draft boards have been ordered by Provost diarshal General Crowder to begin mailing _out tomorrow questionnaires 10 all of the men between 19 and .36 years of age, inciusive, who registered last Thursday, except British and Ca- nadian‘subjects who have thirty days to voluntarily enter the British and! Canadian armies. Ten per. cent. of the questionnaires are to be mailed by each board each day until the entire group his been sent out, Provost Marshal General Crowder announceq tonight. and un-1 der the regulations, each registrant is given seven days to fill out and re-{ turn the document. “It is, however, the earnest hope of the office that the rezistrants will rot require as much time as this,” General Crowder said, “and that ev- ery effort will be inade to turn the questionnaires in, properly answered, as promptly as possible. Approximately 6,000,000 men are in the 19 to 20 and 32 to 3§ year classes to whom questionnaires go, it was said. There also are some 40,000 ad- ditional men, between 21 and 31 years of age, who were added to the draft rolls’ Thursda® registering for the first time and these also will be clas-* sified. ROBERT FAY BROUGHT . BACK TO THIS COUNTRY New York, Sept. 17.—“Lieutenant” Robert Fay, convicted German agent, who escapa# from Atlanta federal pri- son more than two vears ago. and was caught in Spain_recently, has been brought back to this country and is in the custody here of the department of justice. He reached here today under guard from New London, Conn., where he arrived from Spain on a United States naval vessel. Disposition of his case awaits ‘in= structions from Washington, it was announced by the department of jus- tice office here. Fay, who stvled him- self a lieutenant in the Prussian ar- Imy, was sent to Atlanta to serve a {three year sentence after his comvie- tion in the New Ybrk federal court oif the charge of conspiring with others {in a plot to blow ub entente saips leaving New York harbor. Fay hal perfected a powerful bomb, designed to blow up a ship's stern. RAILWAY MEN ORDERED TO CLAIM DEFERRED DRAFT Washington, Sept. 17—All railway employes in the clastes declared bv* the railroad administration essential! to proper operations, were instructed today by Director General McAdoo to claim deferred draft classification as &, “patriotic duty” and to furnish the! district boards with the necassary in- formation in their answers to the questionnaires to show the basis for such classification. Explaining the reasons for askine. the exemptions, Mr. McAdoo declared “there is no surplus whatever of em- ployes for running the railroads and there is no surplus supply of lagor from which new emploves can drawn to replace those who may be taken for the military service.” | GERMAN WOMEN AND BOYS 3 FOR AUXILIARY SERVICE With the American Army on _the. Lorraine Front, Monday, Sept, 16- (By The A. P.). One hundred and| eight German infantry _battalions, | | equivalent to twenty divisions, have heen disbanded, it is learned, in order | to” fill the gap made by the past vear's fighting. Women and boys are Deing caled to the auxiliary service ! to réplace men. Five thousand wo- | men already have been mobilized for this purpose and boys of 14 are being: utilized. i Captured officers say_that Germany: is very tired of the war and no long--| er hopes to do more than keep what is its own.