Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 20, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag Bulleti VOL. LIX—NO. 226 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 TEN PAGES—80 COLUMNS / ALLIED TROOPS GLOSING NIPPERS ON 3T. QUENTIN To the Southeast the French Have Gained Better Position For the Squeeze Against the Town—In Macedonia the Bul- (By The Associated Press.) saw both the British amd mies in Picardy materially plans for the eventual of St. Quentin and Cam- Bri made further gains iouzeaucourt _and east of y, while the French striking of St. Quentin, brought the part of their nivper into : n _for the squeeze which daily seem- rowing nearer. an 10,000 prisoners and in sixty large guns fell into of the British during the begun by Field Marshal nesday northwest of St. n addition, extremely heavy were inflicted on the Ger frontal attacks and dur- ounter-attacks made b: ndeavor to recoup their of ground. So badly was the ammered during this_fighting e did not attempt on Thursday m his trenches, except n: i Gouzeaucourt and to gi on isolated sectors around ast of Soissons the Germans ar ter-attacking viciously against t i forces holding strategic po- hich are threatening the high &n ne the Chemin des Dames, my hopes to save as a A aven refuge in the event of a forced retirement from the south. Notwithstanding onsloughts, the ed the ene- vench everywhere repul Kkewise south of the Aisne in the andon the Germans en- ored to beat back the French but with defeat, the French ar- the attacking waves to On the Lorraine front there has been mutual artillery shelling, infantry enzagement. A garians Continue in Flight Before the Serbians. raid attempted west of Pont-a-Mousson raught. the Serbians, who have war stores. is devastating the country and the Germans for Kazan. The success of Czecho-Slovaks, effectiveness of the Ru: aid. session ing of the war. rote. Alexander Kerensky, the ference. his country had never re. ent _Assembly in Russia were meetin; in an endeavor In the Macedonia theater the garians are still in full flight before recaptured numerous towns, taken large numbers of prisoners and great quantities of Following the usual tac- tics of the Teutonic allies, the enemy tra- verses, leaving it a wilderness through the use -of the torch and explosives. In European Russia the Bolsheviki the moment seem to have the upper hand over the Czecho-Slovaks, who have been com- pelled to evacuate Volsk, Simbirsk and by the Germans against General Pershing's men north- [ came he forces is attributed to a ieck of am- munition and other supplies In Transcaucasia the British force which recently wen the relief of the besieged Armenians in Baku has been compelled to with- draw into north Persia in the face of the large Turkish forces and the in- s0- Armenian by The inter-allied labor conference in in London has unanimously adopted the fourteen points President Wilson formulated as the only basis for peace as labor’s basis for the end- | Likewise, unanimous approval was given the stand of Pres- ident Wilson and the entente powers with reghrd to Austria’s recent peace o clared that >gnized the reace of Brest-Litovsk or ceased to struggle azainst the Germans. He add- ed that members of the old Constitu- g secretly to form HOW GERMAN IRON HAND EXTENDED INTO BEYGIUM gron, Sept. 19—How the iron he German general staff was into Finland by the German- tussian Bolshevik is pictured in disd of 1 s installment of secret docu- ments brought out”of Russia by the American government. There are some alsa peremptory notes from the German military_intelligenco = service 10 Trotzky, then the Bolshevik foreign telling more of the story of r jon of revolutionary pro-’ + in Russian provinces after it played its part in throwing the ces into German control. When theBolsheviki Were slow spening the way for complete for their masters in Finland, the ntalligence service had “the to remind them that the with- ppr serman onor’ rawal and disarming of the Russian g 4 in Finland must be com- 4 immediately. Furthermore, igents were directed to send to Finland a trusty agent to deal{ . rvo Haapalaainen, chief of the | Finnish White Guard who was dispos- al to his country. gar Sisson, who procured e documents explams in a note, ac- | nts for the sudden withdrawal of | e Red Guard last March. leaving| rland to her fate. Some of the Rus- sians resisted disarmament, but they beaten. : A series of curt orders from the in- gence service to Trotzky calls for e removal of all agitators from the T'kraine, Estland Litv and Court- land, and for the restoration of rights nd properiy to German landlords wh: had been declared outlawed in Estiand. unications throw furth- ssassinatl compacts twean the Bolsheviki and anarchists hich have figured in earlier chapters ¢ the series. A list of anarchists hir- | 1 “agents for the destruction of snter-revolutionists,” includes sev- T characters of international no- ety YELLOW BOOK DISTRIBUTED TO THE FRENCH DEPUTIES Paris, Sept. 19.—A Yellow Book was ritaited in the chamber of deputies It deals with the Franco-Rus- n alllance and contains a large mber of documents datinz from 1390 1912. The book is divided into four ers and covers the,origin of the iance, the military convention and the naval convention. The documents ainly retrospective of the mili- | convention already published. ; tary The naval convention, which was ncigded in 1912, provides that the val forces of France anw Russia shall co-operate whenever their land forces take combined action under the ance. ALLIED AIRMEN DAILY BOMBING GERMAN TOWNS Amsterdam, Sept. 19.—Allied airmen | daily are bombing Cologns, Coblenz and other German towns, killing or njuring many persous, says the Het Volk. The pewspaper says the number of rasualties published in the German newspapers are much under the act- 3al total. It adds that many residents of the towns that are beinz raided are fleeing to Holland for safety. KERENSKY ATTENDING INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE London, Sept. 19. — Alexander F. Kerensky, former Russian premier, told the inter-allied conference in ses- sion here today that the members of the o0id Constituent Assemoly were meeting secretly in Russia and a tempting to create a government for whole of Russia. PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS AT ESSEN AND COLOGNE Amsterdam, Sept. 19.—Peace demon- strations, organized by the social dem- ocrats, were held today at Essen and Cologne and in a large number of towns in Saxony, according to a despatch from Cologne to the Dutch hewspapers. Thousands of persons are said to have attended the meet- mgs. can answer to the Austri note, taken in connection ment of their territory. bitter and pessimistic. It the conclusion “Mr. Balfour's speech, will evoke powertul every Gernfan. und Alsace-Lorraine. ‘It Mr. last two points a complete military entente, there robbers’ warfare." the German st ndpoint, ity an I told you so” nature. answer makes it say M are impossible willing to accept 1t declares it newspaper adds: “If nies back to cerned.” With the A, P. ket The French and Aerican s0 great that of the new positions, GERMANS’ ONLY HOPE. be given a breathing chance for recuperation. three are classified as first as second class, two as third offensive. STRAUSS APPOINTED TO $100,000.000 Credit to Mtaly. ‘Washington, Sept. 19.—Extension of ‘Washingtoh, Sept. 19. paper says that President necessary and see what the entente nations wiil is evident from Balfour’s speech that negotiations unless Germany in_advance all the conditions iaid down by the allies. The RAIN HALTS FIGHTING IN 8T. MIHIEL SECTOR the American Army on the Lorraine Front, Sept. 19, 6 p. m. (By Clouds, from which rain poured most of the time, covered the sector north of St. Mihiel like a blan- today, forcing the ailied airmen to cease their punishment of the Ger- GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS ON WILSON'S ANSWER Copenhagen, Sept. 19.—The German press generally, from the eocialist to the conservatives, regards the Ameri- peace the speech of Foreign Secretary Balfour, as final proof that the aliies, so the newspapers charge, seek to complete the destruction of the central powers and their peoples and the dismember- an with The socialist Vorwaerts of Berlin is declares that the American answer and the ut- | terances of Secretary Bulfour compel that the emtente not_hear of a peace by agreement. says the Vorwaerts, “coniains two points which a great part of the German people are ready to discuss and two others which opposition from The. first two . points Belgium and the bresi-Litovsk. other two concern the German colonies | alfour wishes that these should be fulfilled, which would pe possible only through victory ould be a teeling left among the entire German peopie that |they had been made the victims of a by The Vorwaerts says that even if the | entente does not admit the justice of its rejection of the Ausirian invitation is, neverthe- less, an “act of stupidity and brutal- he Lokal Anzeiger's comment is of The news- Wilson's to wait the matter of giving our colo- us is a closed incident for England, then any peace talk aiso is purposeless as far as we are con- occasionally the enemy’s artillery fired viciously and blindly into the sector. | guns con- tinued throughout the day their bom- bardment of fixed targets, but with less vigor than usual. They, too, wers hampered by the lack of observers’ reports. They were less handicapped than the Germans, however, because since the victorious swing of the line to the north their superiority has been it is improbable that the Germans yet have accurate data IS TO HOLD POSITIONS With_the American Forces in Lor- raine, Sept. 19 (By the A. P.)...The numerical weakening of the German forces, coupled with evidence of a de- crease in their morale, as-has bten shown by the testimony of prisoners taken by the Americans, makes it rea- sonably certain, according to military observers, that the German high com- mand does not purpose to order the troops to do anything more than hold their positions until the bad weather sets in, assuming that thevls they will spell and Of the thirteen divisions of wholly rested German troops on this front, class, six chass and two as fourth class. All these men were éngaged in the German drive in July and later in the allied counter- FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD — Albert an additional credit of $100.000,000 to | Strauss of New York. now representa- Jtaly was announced today by the|tive of the treasury department on the treasury, bringing the total that nation up te $860,- the total credRts to the al- war trade board, was nomi President Wilson today to Paul M. Warburg as a ~o=ber »* ““g | federal reserve board. inated by succeed Bul- the to former Russian premier, addressed the con- He said Russia had not left | the Entente alliance and d a government for the whole of Russia, | “The | the is a Cabled Paragraphs British Armed Steamer Sunk. London Sept. 19, 540 p. m. — A British armed boarding steamer was torpedoed and sunk by German sub- marine on September 12, the British admiralty announced today.: Fifty- eight members of the crew ure miss- ing. > 317 NAMES IN.TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS Washington, Sept. 19.—The follow- ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 39; missing in ac- tion 51; wounded severely 84; died of wounds 10; died from aeroplane acci- dent 1; wounded, degree undeter- mined 3; died of disease 3; died from accident and other causes 5; total 196. New England men are: Killed in Action. Lieutenant Oscar H. Cowan, Stam- ford, Conn. ' Privates Leonard E. Erickson, Mills- ville, Mass.; Alfred Emery Ladd, Cran- berry Isles, Maine. Died from Wounds Bugler, Nicholas Florio, Waterbury, Conn. Wounded Severely in Action. Lieutenants— Paul Keller, Boston, mass.; Paul J. Kingsley, Frovidence, T Privates—Bernard J. foy, Lynn ,Mass. the enpmy West Rene J. Lavigne, South- bridge, Mass.; Peter F. Mills, Nor- wood, Mass,; Arthur Moreau, lock, Msas.; Lester G. Strachen, Alls- town, Mass. Missing in Action. Private John Daniel Mackay, Cam- bridge, Mass. THURSDAY AFTERNOON’S LIST Killed in action 22; missing in ac- tion 20; wounded severely 43; died of accident and other causes 3; wounded slightly 3; total 121. Died from wounds received in % ac- tion: Privates — Wladyslaw Kwyecinski, mond, Waterbury, Conn.; z b bb New London, Conn; Frederick .J. Murphy, Cambridge, Mass; Arthur D. Richmond, Waterbury, Conn. Wounded Severely. Privates—Joseph L. Kenney, Dor- chester, Mass; Ernest L. Langley, | Boston, Mass.: Exnest Richard Lever- |idge, Lincoln, N. H.; John Ryan MacDonald, Malden, Mass.; Periey G. Sharpe, New Bedford, Mass; Philo- mon J. Denault, Fall River, Mass.; aul Godinsky, - Mattapan, Mass.; ! Albert E. Leplant, Richford, Vt. Wounded Slightly. te Louis M. David, Wounded in action (degree undeter- mined), previously reported missing in action: | Privates—George W. ville, Mass; Charles mand, Mass.; S: Ma d. Conn.; George Conn. _Previously reported missing. in ac- tion, now reported wounded: Day, Somer- A. Hatstat. Ru- uel A. Mears, Essex, herlock, Torrington. E. Suydam, Winsted, P Privates—Ulysses Arhontous, Will{ Thompsonville, Conn.; Vincent Kraiesky, Middletown, Conn.; An- thony V. Nieastro, Norwalk ,Conn. HINDENBURG'S PROCLAMATION TO GERMAN ARMY IN FIELD Amsterdam, Sept. 19.—Field Mar- chal Von Hindenburs has issued a proclamation to the German army in the field, according to the Zei upg Am Mittag, of Eerlin. in which the Ger- man commander-in-chief alludes to the recent Austrian peace offer, saying that it does not involve an interrup- tion in the war operations. The field marshal adds that a readi- ness for peace is not in contradiction th the spirit with which Germany ing the struggle. It is the duty, he says, to continue the struggle whiie waiting to see whether the cnemy is sincere and ready for Deace negotiations. The text of the proclamation reads: “The Austro-Hungarian government has proposed to all the belligerents a conference for a non-binding discus- sion of peace. War not thereby interrupted. Readiness for peace is mot in contradiction to the spirit with which we are waging the struggle for the homeland. “As early as December, 1916, the} kaiser, our supreme war lord, with his allies offered peace to the enemy. The German government has often since then proclaimed its readiness for peace “The reply of the enemy was scorn and . derision. The enem: govern- ments incited their peoples and ar- mies to continue the annihilating war against Germany. We have thus con- tinued our defensive struzsle. “Our ally has now made a fresh proposal to hold a discussion. +The ighting will not be interrupted. The army’s task is to continue the strug- cle. Tn four victorious vears of war the German army has energetically protected the homeland Btakis proved to S, s the enemy our invincibility. Only by Patrols were active, carrying out|tnis means do w. et , i e help break i operations far beyond the lines and e my’s will to destruction. “Wkile continuinz to fight, we have to wait to sec whether the enemy is sincere and this time ready for peace negotiations, or whether he will again reject peace with us unless we are prepared to buy it on conditions whi would destrov our peoples’ future. FRANCE NOT DECEIVED y BY VIENNA PEACE PROPOSAL Paris, Sept. 19.—An official note is- sued tonight says that Foreign Min- ister Pichon, in acknowledging to Swiss minister the receipt of Austria’s peace proposal, sent with his letter a copy of the Official Journal contain- ing Premier Ciemenceau’s speech in the senate Wednesday. This epeech, he said, constituted France's reply to Vienna. “We will fight until the hour when the enemy comes to understand that bargaining between crime and right is | no longer possible.” was one of the! main phrases in M. Clemenceau’s ad- dress to the senate. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND IS BECOMING WEAKER St. Paul, Minn, Sept. 19.—Arch- bishop John ‘Ireland, of the St. Paul diocese of the Roman Catholic church, who has been ill for a long time, is sradually becoming weaker, it was announced at his home here tonight. Last winter Archbishop Ireland suf- fered a breakdown and since then never has fully recovered. His physi- ciany said tonight that they have grave doubts whether the archbishop would recover from this reiapse. 10,000 PRISONERS TAKEN NORTHWEST OF,ST. QUENTIN Tondon, Sept, 19—The prisoners taken by ‘the Dritish in the operations begun Wednesday northwest of . St. Quentin. now exceed 18 000, according to Fieid Marshal Haig’s report. tonight. More than sixty big guns were taken. Grey- | disease 9; died of ‘wounds 11; died of | Taunton,| operations are | Graft is Alleged " in Army Contracts Ten Employes and Govern- ment Inspectors Arrested at Long Island City. New York, Sept. 19.—Charged with corispiracy to defraud the government, ten employes and government inspect ors at the factory of Rosenwasser Brothers, Inc,, Long Island City, which has army contracts totalling $8,907,000, were arrested tonight by agents of the Warrants also have been issueq for Leo Rosenwasser, president of the corporation, and his department of justice. brother, Morris Rosenwaster. 3 According to a statement made af the offices of the department of jus tice. a reinspection of leather jerkins for aviators, made at the Rosenwasser plant, resulted in the rejection of more The garments are said to have been from one to three than 95 per cent. inches shorter than specifications, thu: saving for the company an enormous High percentages of rejections of canvas leggings .and spiral puttees also resulted from the amount of leather. reinspection, it was asserted, The men who were arrested tonigh were Lieut. Samuel Crass, former in spector at the plant; William Sam. Abe Friedman ors, and Abe Weiss, Lewis Levy, Ja cob Rosenberg ang Ike Meriis, Dlani foremen. Weiss, Rosenberg, Levy and Merli: were released on $4,000 bond after ar raignment before a United States com missioner in Brooklyn. arrested were held in default of §10, 000. The firm of Rosenwasser Brothers, Inc., which has also large governmen contracts for army under investigation by the war de: partment for several months, accord: ing to the department of justic agents. The inquiry followed charge: of the use at the plant of forzed gov. ernment .nspection stamps the pass: ing of defective materlals by inspect ors, and the introduction The results of these investigation: never have been made public, but i is said they have been turned over to the department of justice for use in connection with the present investiga- tion. Department of justice officials said expected to arrest several other they men in addition to Leo and Morri: Rosenwasser, on similar charges. “DUMMY’ DlREC""ORS IN ARMY RAINCOAT CONTRACTS|George Ehret, $50,029: 19.—Formation of New York, Sept. a company with “dummy” directors t hardle army raincoat contracts alleg. ed to have been obtained Vaughn and Felix Gouled, was deserib ed ‘in the federal ®urt today. At thy trial for conspiracy of Vaughn, form er director ‘of the Aivision of suppl: Private George Simons, former clerk; Sam Schwartz, and David Lebowitz, government inspect- The other men shoes, has been into army shoes of paper in the place of leather. throuzh {raud practiced by Captain Aubrey W. German Brewers Backed Brishane Advanced $375,000 For the Purchase of the Washington Times—List Made Public. Washington, Sept. 19.—The federal custodian of ‘alien property, A, Mit- - |chell Palmer, made public today the names of the fifteen brewers who, with the United States Brewers Associa- tion, raised a tund which $375,000 was Brisbane to buy Times. Mr. Palmer acted immediately- after the senate had passed a resolution in- troduced by Senator Jones of Wash- ington, calling upon the property cus- todian to show the proofs on which he made his speech in Harrisburg, Pa., last Saturday describing the efforts of brewers to control a newspaper in pro-German interest, to exert _their influence upon congress, and, finally on which he charged that the brewins interests had advanced the money for the purchase of a newspaper to “fight the battle of the liquor traffic under the shadow of the dome of the capi- t | tol.” -| Mr. Brisbane, in published state- ments in the es, already has stated that be bought the paper with money loaned by . W. Feigenspan, a brewer and president of the Fed- - |eral Trust Company of Newark, N. J. t | Mr. Brisbane also has published a let- ter’ from Feigenspan defining an ar- s |rangement by which the loan was - |syndicated to fifteen brewers. Mr. - | Falmer includes in his disclosure this letter and also documents to support - | his assertion that the loan was made jn a way to conceal its course and purpose. t| Included in Mr. Palmer's papers are copies of letters written by Alexander - |Konna, evidently a German agent, to -| Captain Hans Tauscher, notoriously o |associated with German propaganda in s |the United States, and to Dr. Ber- nard Dernburg, Germany's chief prop- 'ganda agent, upon the prospects of - |Diying some’ great American news: paper. Mr. Palmer connects these with his declaration that the influence which the brewers' attempts to exert as thoroughly in the interest of Ger- many. Mr. Palmer_tonight declined to say where his office obtained the docu- ments. He added that thzy spoke for themselves. First amonz the documents is a letter from Feigenspan to Robert (Crain, whose office is in the building which houses Mr. Brisbane's Time: detailing the distribution of the $407,- 500 loan. It was divided this way: of $407,500, from loaned to Arthur tile - Washington t s s t s C. 25,000; Julius Liebmann ,0003 J. o G. Hupfel, $7,500; Jacob Ruppert - [530,000: Joseph E. Ulhiein, $50,00; Ed- ward Landsberg, $15,000: Reuter and Company $15,000; A. J. Houghton Co,, - |$10,000; William Hamm $10,000; G. e |Pabst, $50,000: Fred Millar Brewinz - | Company, $10,000 (this sum was al- y [lotted among five individuais at_$3.000 of the quartermaster corps, ‘Qouled, |each); €. Schmidt and Sos, $5.000; a_ prometer. and Dayid “LcProdell, | F. A. Poth and Sops..313.00C: Bergnen iawyer, Harry Rosenfield, a manu- [and Engel, $10,000: United ~States facturer, 'told of the incorporation by | Brewers’ Association, $30,600: United Prodell of the concern’ which he testi- [ States Brewers' Association, Adv, fied was intended to conceal his prof- |$25.000; a total of §407,500. it-sharing arrangement with Gouled| Of this sum 'Feigenspan's letter and a “slush fund” which was t have paid Vaushn 5 per cent. on all business ‘he procured. Admitting that his complaint to th department of justice prompted a rai cn_Gouled's office and seizure of rec. ords which led to the present prose cutions, Rosenfield said he had reveal ed his connection with the alleges conspiracy when Gouled's promise of government contracts’ failed materialize. The to ma witness also de. clared that while on the way with Gouled to the New York office of the quartermaster corps, the promotes showed him $1000, which he s2id wa: “going to people higher up.” IMPOSING TRIBUTE TO CARDINAL J. M. FARLEY New York, Sept, 19.—The body of Cardinal John M. Farley was born: today with solemn ceremonial from his modest summer home at Mamaro- neck to St. Patrick’s cathedral, where it will find its last resting place nexi Tuesday in a crypt beneath the altar. Starting at 1.30 p. m. the cortege three reverent, bareheaded proceeded slowly for nearly hours through 0| stated $375.000 -was advanced to the Growing Circulation Corporation. (Mr. | Brisbane's e | the sum he borrowed through Mr. d | FFeigenspan at this amount.) -| Mir. Palmer's documents cuote the - | Corporation Directory for 1917 as de- - | scribing the Growinz Circulation Coi d | poration as being capitalized at $1 000, having offices at 140 Nassau - | street, New York city, and having - | among its directors William A. De Ford, one cf William R. Hearst's lawyers; John T. Sturdevant and Thomas McEntegart. The courso of the Joan as it appears to be shown by documents the origin- als of which Mr. Palmer states are in his possession, shows first six checks from C. W. Feigenspan, trustee, drawn between June 21, 1918, and January 1918. There also is a° checks for $2 000 drawn by Feigenspan as trustee for Crain. Then follow five drafts by the Federal Trust Company rayable to bearer ageregating $345,000. They were endorsed to be paid to the order of “A. Thursby. Growing Circulation Cor- poration, per L. B. Krause, vice pres- ident. For deposit pay to Equitable r s 14 e e t throngs, until it meached the tower- | TTUSt, Commany.l o ane Ing cathedral, Thousands of fags| ,ouncement ‘“is evidently Alice Bris- along the course,-some ~draped in|i;ne Thurshy, whose address accord- mourning, floated at half mast inling to the record at the Equitable tribute te the cardinal and scores of Trust Company, is care of Arthur church bells tolled as the procession | TTUst Companv, i care of ! moved past. bane, 2 5 Reaching the city, (he cortege was| The documents then show a note Joined by the Sixty-ninth regiment,|for $300,000 dated June 21, 1917, pay- New York State guard, and a platoon of mounted police, which escorted the procession to the cathedral. The casket was removed to = the arch-episcopal residence, where it will remain unti tomorrow afternoon. when it in . state until Tusday. the final FURTHER DELAY IN ACTION ON WATER POWER BILL Washington, Sept. 19—Further de Jay in final enactment of the adminis tration water power leasing bill the senate to sending the bill re: cently passed by the house to confer ence. It was insisted that the meas. ure be sent to committee and treated was taken, and the debate will be resumed as new legislation. No action on Saturday. The house recently passed the bill, which was drawn unhder the super. vision of the secretaries of war. in. terior and agriculture, as administra. tion legislation. The new bill ference. necessary delay. SLIGHT INCREASE IN PRICES OF IRON ORE Washington, Sept. 19.—Iron ore pro- ducers were granted a slight increase beginning 1 by the price fixing committee of the war. industries board tonight after an all-day_conference with rep- resentatives of the American Iron and The extent of the in- Decision as to new basic prices on pig iron was in prices for the Oct. quarter Steel institute. crease was not announced, postponed until tomorrow. ‘After the conference agreement had been reached would be no. announcement approve the action of the committee. He stated, however the increase public interest. first was carried to the high altar of the cathedral, but later will be returned to the cathedral, and will li¢ ceremonies was forecast today by strong objection in was passed as an amendment to a bill by Senator Shields of Tennessee on the same subject, anq Senator Fletcher of Florida asked that it be sent to con- This met objection because of the possibility of occasioning un- Chairman Brookins announced that although an there out of courtesy to the president, w20 has to in iron ore was so slight as not to be of |. able five yvears later to Feigenspan as trustee, and executed by the Growing Circulation Corporation. Thig Is fol- lowed by a receipt to Feigenspan, exe- cuted by A. Brisbane, acknowledging 1] $260,000 “to be used in the purchase 1Tof Mr. Munsey's newspaper in Wash- ington by me” The remaining $40,- 000 was to he paid later. A letter from Mr. Erisbane to Feig- enspan defining the terms of the loan is mext given. This previously has been published by Mr. Brishane. It sets forth that a number of brewers, inclugng Feigenspan, were ready to - | loan Brisbane $500,000 for the pur- - | chase and establishment of a newspa- per. and that at the end of five years so much was to be repaid as Brisbane - | determined as the business of the pa- - | per warranted: that no interest was - | to he charged, but that the loan was to he returned if the paper were sold. Mr. Brisbans has stated thot he de- clined to accept the loan without in- terest. His only security, Feigenspan de - | clares in his statement to the alien - | property custodian is the $300,000 gote -1of the Growing Circulation Corpora- tion. At the close of the statement George Ehret, Jr, declares that he believes it to 1o true. The alien property custodian makes no comment upon the documents but passes to the two letters by Konta. to Support his charge in his Harrisburg speech that “the crganized liGuor traf- fic has besn pro-German in its sym- pathies” and that “thesze great inter- ests actually have been willing to fi- nance great newspapers for the pur- pose of spreading German propagan- da and sentiments in this country.” Konwa's latter to Tauscher informs that at Bernard Dernberg’s request he has canvassed the préspects of buying a newspaper. He asks that if possible the original of the latter be recovered. The letter to Dernberg written on March 31, 1915, goes into the subject of “the purchase and publication of a daiiy newspaper in this country in the interests of Germary and the Ger- man government.” It praceeds to dis- cuss various New York morning news- parers from the point of their success, . | proceeding from that to make dedue-. tions on the likelihood of their tale: Turning to_the evening newspaper field Xonta discussed the Post, the published statements place | Condensed Teiegrams ’ Holland crops are reported in poor condition. No exemptions will be made in the | lightless night orders. Sand is being used in Germany as | a substitute for soap. | The names of 17 Americans appear- ed on the Canadian casualty list. Production of cigars in Germany dwill be stopped by the end of the year. The administration bill to stimulate | the sale of Liberty Bonds was taken up_in the Senate. Premier Orlando of Italy is in Pa He was received by Premier Clemen- ceau and the Italian minister. Negotiations are reported under way for the merger of all interesats con- trolled by the Pacific Coast Qo. Lotton gins in Mississippi will stop work for ten days to clean up accumu- | lations of cottonseed in warehouses. | Eighty British soldiers, including | seven officers, released from a military prison in Bulgaria arrived at Geneva. During the week ended Sept. .13, sick and wounded soldiers numbering 884 were landed in the United States. Spanish influenza_has made a ces- ond appearance in Scandinavian coun- tries. 1t is reported worse than be- fore. President Wilson susponded for the duration of war the ban prohibiting the Government from buying prison- made goods. Three hundred steel coal cars built for Germany by the Orenstein-Koppel Co. of Pittsburgh, will be sent to France. More than 25 per cent. of the mar- riage licenses taken out in Chicazo were by youths between 17 and 21 and | men over 31. i The aeronautics bill favorably se- ported by the Senate military commit- | tee will be killed by Administration | opposition. Nurses of the New England division of the Red Cross were ordered to o ganize at Boston to fight the Spanish influenza. Representative Tom Connolly, of | Texas, was commissioned a captain in | the army and ordered to report at| Camp Meade, Md. | Ambassador Jusserand appealed .to| Senator Hitchcock to have Congress | allow importation of French wines un- til May 1, 1919, | The wool clip of Alberta, Can., for | 1918 amounts to 2,415,000 pounds. Lit- | tle is offered for sale to dealbrs, ! Another party of 510 refuges from Russia and including 60 Americans and British civilians arrived at Hap- aranda, Sweden Manufacturers of paper and carb- | iboard boxes agreed to curtail their production along lines suggzested by the War Industries Board. No new style of straw hats will be made for next season. The War In-| dustries Board put a ban on advanced shapes and models. No_ restrictions are placed on the manufacture of soft drinks by the Fuel Administartion and none will be | imposed until an investigation shows | such move is necessary. Protigene Elloni, attorney, and Fran- cesco Morri, agricultural expert, were elected presidents for six months of | the tiny republic of San Maino. Howard Robets of Springficld, Mass., was sentencd to three months in jail | [for stealing $14,000 worth of Liberty | Bonds from a bank in that city | The national convention of journal- | ists ‘at Rio, de Janeiro will hold its next meeting Sept. 10, 1922, for a Pan- | American congress of journalists. The Federal Food Board received a request from the Department of Wo- men Farm Workers to aid in the re- cruiting of 150 women for farm labor. | To prevent a shortage of 17,000,000 | tons of coal this winter a bill was in- troduced in the Senate to prohibit the sale of liquor within five miles of coal mines for 60 days after Oct. 1. Nicholas Zitko, 4 years old, was led in front of his home in Hart- ford by a milk truck owned by Charles Eddy of Bloomfield. The bedy of William F. Halliday, aged 12, son of George Halliday, of Wethersfield, was found in Salmon Tiver. A true bill of murder in the first degree was returned by the grand jury in the criminal court in the case of Joseph and Erasmo Perratta, accused of Killing Frank Palmez in New Brit- ain June 3. The death of Peter Terezchak from Spanish influenza is the first fatali from the disease reported in Seymou Mail and the Globe. The Post, Konta spoke ot in the most flattering terms, but made no comment on_the possibilities of its| purchase. The “price quoted for the Evenin; Mail by its editor is $1,- 000 000" he reported. (The sale of the Mail already has| resulted in indictments charging fail- | ure to make proper returns to the alien property custodian.) Whether the Globe could be hought. Konta wrots Dernberg, was a for cautions inquir; At this p t Konta took up the re- lation of the prohibition \-itation to the question in hand and wrote “A paper that would not be hostile to the personal liberty of the citizen to drink in moderation what he pleased, could count upon the powerful sup- port of the brewers a\ the distillers to command illimitable capital, and what is more, means of giving the paper in question a circulation large cnough to attract advertiser: “Add_to this & every German for support by “matter discreet appeal fo ociety in the countrv its members, and we could easily count uvon a natirmal daily circulation of 300000 copie: At no time in the Konta Iotters are | | Mr. Brisbane or the Times mentioned at all, but Mr. Palmer, it was said, | included the correspondence to prove his charge that the brewins interests | were furthcring German propaganda | and_ that the German Allinnce was really a “German whiskey alliance.” Mr. Palmers revelations of these documerts shot a stir through econ- gress and official Washingten which probably hus not been approached since the declaration of war. his Harrisburg specch Saturday al storm has raged around the owner-| ship of Mr. Brisbane's Times. It came to a climax yesterday with Prisbane's published announcement that he bought the paper wilh money borrow- ed from brewers, which was followed | today by the alien property custods | an’s revelations soon after the passage | of the senate's resolution. i The senale judiciary committee will | meet Abnday to consider the affair. NORWALK TAX COLLECTOR SHORT $32200 IN ACCOUNT Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 19—Chester | S, Selleck.’ who was arrested for mis- appropriation of funds, has resigned | as treasurer of the First taxing dis- trict, it was learned tonight James P. Hubbell was today appointed treas urer to fill the vacancy. The district commissioners hav enot compieted the checking of Selleck’s accounts, but it was stated that of the $10,000 sinking Dpeal to Pregident { French army jin a Since |. RE-HEARING FOR BRIDGEPORT § Mr. Taft and Mr. Walsh Have Decided to Go to the Park City Monday to Hold a Hearing Relative to the Appli- cation and Interpretation of Previous Award. - Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 19.—The ap- [ fiirthier action relative to application lson sounded by striking machinists when . they an- | swered his summons to return to work | has been recognized. ment department activity is evidenced. The outstanding features tonight are: In every govern- i—Virtual revocation of the Eidlitz award. 2—Announcement that _re-hearings will be held by W. H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh of the national war labor board in Bridgeport beginning Mon- day. 3—Cessation of all applications and clections under the award. i—Government inquiry into the actual cost of living. 5—Government demand. that school buildings shall be opened for meetings of citizens upon demand. Alpheus Winter examiner in charge of applying the Bridgeport award of the national war labor board, received the following telegram ,from W. Jett Lauck, secretary of the board: “Washington, D. C., Sept. 19. 1918, “T have talked with Mr. Taft over the telephone in New York and he and Mr. Walsh have decided to go {0 Bridgeport on Monday and to hold a hearing Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock relative to application and interpreta- tion of Bridgenort award. Please make announcement of their coming and of meeting at 2 o'clock on Monray, so that all parties interested may. be present. In the meantime do not make any further rulings and postpone elecion ~ tonight and convention on turday. In other words, take no of awarg or to jts interpretation until after the meeting on Monday, but an- nounce that all questions may be sub- mitted at that time. (Signed) { A “W. JETT LAUCK, Secrétary.” . A meeting of the machinists who had been on strike for the election of delegates to the. convention that was to have been held on Satupday under the Eidlitz award was called off. ‘Both labor and plant officials tonight are preparing to submit questions to the Taft-Walsh board. John M. Foster, special agent of the bureau of labor _statistics, United States department of labor, has opened on office in this city and today began a wide canvass of the homes to ascer- tain .the differences in costs between 1918 and past years. Through a demand presented by the war Ihbor , board officials, six ecity rublic schools have been Gpened for mestinzs on public ques- tions. They will be in charge of Pierce V. ‘Gahan, superintendent of the department of recreation, work- ing under the United States depart- ment of education. It has been im- possible heretofore on several occa- sions for citizens to even -hire a hall unless sanctioned by the president of the police board, head of one of the large munitions-making concerns her Under the new rulirg, it will be_pos: sible for meetings to be held if appli cation for a schoolnouse is signed by five citizens or declarants for citizen- ship. LIEUT. D. E. PUTNAM, AVIATOR, KILLED WHILE ON PATROL With the American Army on the Lorraine Front, Sept. 19 (By the A. P.)—First Lieut. David B. Putnam of Newton, Mass., American ace of aces, led late Wednesday afterndon while on patrol along the American He was flying with Lieut. Wendella American | Robertson of Kort Smith, Ark., when | they were attacked by seven German machines. lour of these made for Puinam’s airplane and three attacked Roberison's. The attack was sudden and unexpected and the enemy was able to fire from above. Lieutenant Putnam was shot twice through the heart. His machine glided to the earth at Limey, within the American lines, where he was found by his comrades. Lieutenant Robert- {son returned safely. Lieut. David E. Putnam, a descend- ant of Gen. Israel Putnam, was cred- ited with twelve aerial victories. He enlisteq with the Lafayette flying squadron ‘and brought down his first enemy machine on Jan. 19, 1918. He was awarded the French war cross on March 23, after haying won five vie- tories in the air. He was later decor- ated with the military medal by the French govermment. ™ wewm.zra He was transferred to the American aerial corps as first licutenant early in June. His achievement on June 10 of bringing down five German airplanes in one day has been eclipsed only once during the war, Rene Fonck of the having destroyed six machines in one day. Lieutenant Put- nam's last aerial victory was on Sept. MOTHER SHOWS SADNESS, FORTITUDE AND PRIDE Newton, Mass., Sept. 19.—Mingled feelings of sadness, fortitude and pride were expressed by Mrs, F. H. Putnam, widowed mother of David E. Putnam, American ace of aces, when she re- ceived the news today of the death of her 20 year old son in France. “My grief is the same as is being borne by mothers of other boys who have made the supreme sacrifice,” she d. “It was a beautiful death for my son—gliding down to earth within our own Amerjcan lines after he had Gone his best for nis country.” 'She read this extract from one of his latest letter: “We aviators and soldiers do suffer in any degree as much as mothers at home. I will say that 2o at all, I will die fighting. not our if I TO RAISE $30,000,000 FOR RELIEF IN PERSIA ew York, Sept. 19.—A campaign fo 0.000 to relieve widespread suifering in the near east and in Per- sia will be conducted early next year, the American Committee for Armeni- an and_Syrian Relief announced to- day. The week of January 12 to 19 was set tentatively for the drive. At a_conference attended by mem- bers of the committee from all sec- tious of the country reports were read detailing “terrible conditions” throughout the regions peopled by Armetians and Syrians, and addresses on the situation there were delivered by Bishop Gore of Oxford, kngland. and Henry Mougenthau, former am- bassador to Turkey. To date the committee has disburs- ed $12,191,175. TEN FIELD ARTILLERY INSTRUCTORS AT YALE New Haven, Conn. Sept. ‘19.—Ten field artillery officers, nine from the Uniteq States army and one from the Canadian army, will be in charge of the field artillery officers’ school at Yale University, it was announced to- night by President Arthur T. Hadley, statement _on Yale's plans for training. Four of the officers have already reported here, although the college vear does not open until next Thursday. Major Samuel A. Well- don is at his desk as commandant. He has returned from active service over- seas and three of the officers will be officers back from the western front. LABOR CONFERENCE BACKS WILSON’S PEACE POLICY London, Sept. 19.—The inter-ailied lahor conference today unanimously accepted a report made by the Inter- national Relations' committee recom- mending that the conference “sub- scribe to the fourteen points formu- lated by President ~ Wilson, thus adopting a policy of clegrness and moderation as opposed to a policy dictated exclusively by changes on the war map” M'ABOO HAS APPROVED : INCREASED EXPRESS RATES Washington, Sept. 19, Director General McAdoo Has approved the ap- plication of the Amrican Railway Ex- in- press Company crease: and ha t state commerce commission for final action. The commission announced ftr further rate estimated to vield fund of the First taxing district only $7.800 remains. tonight that” public hearings on the matter will begin Tuesday, October 8. | BURIAN CLAIMS PEACE PRCPOSAL WAS HIS oW Amsterdam. Sept. 19.—Baron Bu ian, the Austro-Hungarian = foreign minister, in announcing to the German deputies: that the Austrian and. Hun- garian delegations would assemble the first forinight of October, is quot- ed in a despatch from Vi-una as say ing that his note 1o the beiligerents had Dbeen considered for weeks and was in nowise influbnced by recent events on the battle front 5 The foreign miinister taken the step alone, without ~previously allies of it and bein approval in principle,” because on the one hand the proposal had to avoid the appearance of a peace offer by the Central Powers and on the other be- cause the proposal was 1o be ad- dressed to all the belligerents. Baron Burian sai¢ success would, perhaps, not immediately ensue but the loyal intentions which were be- hind the proposals undoubtedly wou'd strensthen the conviction trat no pos- sible success obtainable from a con- tinuation of the war would be able to. weigh against the heavy sacrifices which the struggie would continue to impose on -the nations. ¥ «aid he had “of course not acquainting our ceriain of their BRITISH RAILROAD STRIKE d HAS BEEN SETTLED London, Sept. 19. — Anncuncement was made this evening that a settle- ment had been reached between the striking raiiroad employes and their employers. Thus the thraatened ma- v.i;nal railway strike has been avert- ed. James Henry Thomas, labor mem- ber of parliament, and general secre- tary of the National Union of Rail- way Men, announced that the dispute Lad been settled as the resuit of a | conference between the executive of the National Union of Railwaymen and the War Cabinet. The® agreement provides for an in- crease of five shillings weekly for male and female workers !over eight- een years of age and twosshilling, six- Lence for those under eighteen. The Sovernment also is to appoint a_com- mittee to inguire into the question of equal pay for men and women for equal work. CLEMENCEAU'S MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE New York, Sept. 19.—President Ja- cob Gould Schurman of Cornell uni- versity, who arriveq here today_after three months of England and France, said he asked Prefier Clemenceau for a message to the American people and that the premier replied: “We make war to the end—to the very end of the end. The next day President Schurman met Marshal Foch and asked for a similar message and the generalissime replied: “Tell the Americans to send as many men as possible, and as quickly as possible, because the more men they send the sooner we will bring the war to an end. The American soldiers are fine soldiers.” CZECHO-SLOVAK FORCES IN RUSSIA HARD PRESSED London, Sept. 19.—The Czecho-Slo- vak forces in European Russia are be- ing hard pressed by the enemy, large- ly owing to lack of munitions and Stores. Within the last ten days the Bolsheviki, assisied by a considerable number of Germans, nave succeeded in occupying Volsk, Simbirsk and Ka- zan. The fall of Kazan appears te have been due entirely to lack of am- munition by the Czecho-Slovaks, The Germans are réported to concentrating _considerable forces at Kharkov, an Sielogorod_with a. view to an advance on the Volza and to prevent General Alexief’s forces in the Don valley from joining hands with the Czechs about Samara. GERMAN BOY RECRUITS IN SERIOUS MUTINY Amsterdam, Wednesday, Sept. 17 (by A. P.).—A large number of Ger- man recruits, mostly boys eighteen vears of age, refused to entrain for the front at Aix-la-Chapelle, accord- ing to Les Nouvelles, which says that soldiers were ordered to firc upon tha riutineers, of whom eight were killed and many wounded. It was stated b: the mewspaver that the remainder of the revolting recruits werd then driven into their train like cattls, but they were firing from the windows of the cars as the train moved out of the station. INFLUENZA IS ON THE WANE AT NEWPORT, R. L Newport, R. I, Sept. 19.—Influenza, which has been prevalent' among the men in the Second’naval district, was, on the wane today. Three deaths and 120 new cases were reported, a de- crease of 160 cases from yesterda; Summer weather today had a bene- ficial effect. Nine hundred patients at ithe naval hosp#al here are about ready to be discharged. 5 Two new cases were recorded in the be marine corps _ battalion, making = 5% cases in all. There were 12 new cases o finfluenza among the civilian popu- lation in Newport. .