Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO. 227 . ' POPULATION 29,919 TURKS HAVE BEEN DEALT - SEVERE BLOW IN PALESTINE ‘Brifish and French Forces Struck the Turkish Line Over a Front of Sixteen Miles and Penetrated It to a Depth of Twelve Miles, Taking 3,000 Prisoners—Allies Better Their Position Near St. (By The Associated Press.) Holy Land is aflame under the im- petus of a mighty stroke by the Brit- ish, French and friendly" Arab fo;‘f!. rkish from V- R e oA Rin| the west of Cambrai, over which there er westward to the seemingly are in rout. Quentin. Cambrai in the French theatre, both the British and French armies have been able materially to better their vositions in front of both Cambrai and St. Quentin. Moeuvres, lying to has been such intensive fighting for Addcd to their already heavy losses|more than a week, in which the town in ground, men killed, wourded made prisoner and stores captured in Belgium, France, Italy and the Bal- kans, the Teutonic allies, judging from first reports of the hostilities begun -against the Ottoman in Palestine, are in for further extremely hard usage. In less than a day General Allenby’s British forces, aided by French troops and natives under the flag of the king ine over & front of sixteen miles and pen- of the Hedjas, struck the Turkich etrated 1t to a depth of twelve miles, taking more than 3,000 Turks prison- er and overrunning the entire hostile defensive system. Railway and high- way junction points were captured and strong forces of cavalry at last ac- counts wers well in advance of the attacking troops, threatening to car- ry ont a turning movement against the fleeing Turks which might prove Meanwhile, along disastrous to them. the shores of the Mediterranean, na- val units were roads of the enemy by’ their gunfire In addition to-the large number (\: o war material had falfen into the hands prisoners taken great quantities ©f the allied troops and the pressure nzainst the enemy was going on una- q predicgment by the operations of the besmen on the eastern side Jordan, which will prevent from taking m in the Jordam valley and com- west of the river as best they ‘hough there has heen romewhat f 1 'et-up in the intensity of the ficht- ing from the ragion of St. Quentin to clearing the coastal of the Turkse is refuge across the em to fight their way out of their or | several times changed hands, now is definitely British. The large numbers of German dead strewing the ground around it attest the value they placed on Moeuvres as a point of strategic value in the defense of Cambrai. To the south on both sides of St. Quentin the British and French have moyed in more closely the jaws of the nipper which is being poised ultimate- 1y to pinch St. Quentin out of the bat- tle line. Most of the German strong points which have been the means of holding bacik ‘the aliied troops in this region now have been overcome, and apparently it is only a matter of time when General Foch will give the or- der for the pressure on the pincers and the capture of St. Quentin. In the region northeast of Soissons the Germans are still using machine gurs in large numbers to hold back the French from further encroach- ments on the Chemin des Dames po- sitions and also are launching heavy counter-attacks in endeavors to ex- pel the French from the positions they have attained. Notwithstanding these strenuous efforts, however, the French have gained further ground northeast of Vailly. Little further fighting has develop- ed on the front held by the Americans north of St Mikiel, t American long range guns are vily shelling the biz German fortress of Metz.g In Macedonia ‘the British, Serbians, French and Greeks continue hard after the Bulgarians, driving the enemy be- fore them and taking large numbers of prisoners In northern Russia the allied troops have gained further successes over the enemy forces. FURTHER PROOF THAT GERMANY PLANNED WAR Washington, Sept. 20.—An vincing Wnk in the proo: that Ger- Mamy Was preparing to start a war of world conquest at least six weeks fore the excuse for it was offered e assassination of the Austrian heir apparent at Sarajevo, concludes the amazing series of disclosures which the American government has given to the public through secret documents brouzht out of Russia. Two authenticated documents are included in the final chapter of the story which began a week ago with evidence removing any doubt that have existed at the Russian ‘olsheviki government, headed by Le- nine and Tiotzky, is a tool of the Im- perial German government. One of tuese is an origipal circular from the German general staff dated June 9, 1814, directing that all industrial con- cerns be notified ta open their secret instructions for industrial mobiliza- tion. Another, dated November 20, 1914, is from the German navar gen- eral staff, and reveals that within four months after hostilities began in Eu- rope “destruction agents” were or- dered to Canada and the United States to hire anarchists and escaped crimi- nals for the bomb plots and work of terror which finally played a part in drawing the United States into the war. In addition to this authenticated evidence, Edgar Sisson, who obtained the papers for the committ®e on pub- lic information, offers' a remarkabhle group of circulars put in Russian text at Petrograd last winter parporting to be copies of documents taken from the archives of the counter-espionage bureau of the Kerensky government, supplemented by some from tne flles of the same bureau before the fall of the czar. Some of this matter has been published previously in France and in this country. The ecircuiars tell of German arrangements six months befors the outbreak of war for the estdblishment of the financial agencies in bordering neutral countries which later furnished the money for the operations of the Bolsheviki: of orders to German banks to. establish close and secret relations with Ameri- can and Finnish banks: of the launch- ing of revolutionary propaganda against the czar's government in Rus- sia as early as November, 1914, and of instructions to German diplomats in all neutral countries to co-operate with agencies get up in those countries for stirring up social unrest, strikes and sentiment against war, within the ene- my states. The name of Scheidemann, the Ger- man socialist leader. already mention- #d as involved in the dealings of the Berman government with Bolsheviki, tppears attached to one of the unau- thenticated documents. it is a note announcing that one hundred and fif- ty thousand kroners have been placed to the credit of a Russian newspaper, and asking that Vorwaerts (the name of Scheidemann's organ at Berlin) be advised of what appeared in the sub- sidized journal. An appendix to the concluding in- stallment Is what purports to be a transcript of a unique telegraphic con- yersation between Tchitchertn, now Bolshevik forsig nministre at Petro- grad, and Trotzky, at Brest-Litovek last a few days before Trot- zky made his notorionds “no peace— no war” play. Tchitcherin is quoted as that a' separafe peace by which Russia would not cause a rapture with the allies and saying that England and America are “playing up to us eeparately.” 80N OF REPRESENTATIVE MANN COMMITS SUICIDE Washington, Sept. 20.—Mrs, James |ClU R. Mann. wife of Representative Mann of Illinois, wag called to Chicago to- day by news that her son, James R. Mann, Jr. had there. youth had heen for sérvice in the army. Cabled Paragraphs Artillery Active in Italy. Rome, Sept. on the Italian front was mainly to artillery fire, says the offi- committed suicide Friends of the family asid the terribly depressed over his failure to qualify physically 20.—Fighting activity 332 NAMES ON TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS| ‘Washington. Sept. 20.—The follow- ing casualties are reported by the | Commanding G eneral of the Ameri- | can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 23; missing in ac- tion 51; wounded severely 49; &ed of wounds died of disease 5; wounded | slightly 1; total 135. New England men are: Killed in Action, Sergeant Fred L. Johnson, Farming- ton Maine. Corporal Paul T. Loescher, Hartford, Conn. Private Patrick J. Coyne, Lawrence. Mass, Died of Wounds. West Privates — Leslie E. Bradbury Auburn, Maine; Stanley Hill, Boston, Mass. Died of Disease. Privates—Henry Crosby, Fort Trum- bull Beach, Conn.; Collin L. Hadley, Newport, N. H.; Lionel L. Hollin, Brockton, Ma Frank Edward Plum- ridge, Hartfcrd,Con.; James E. Tray- sor, Somerville, Mass. Missing in Action. Corporal Elmer N. Buswell, Boston, James P. Buckley, Lynn, Nicola Garabillo, Hartford, Steve . Christian Pittsfield, Mass.; Harry D. Huni, New Haven, Conn. FRIDAY AFTERNOON’S LIST. Killed in action 30; missing is ae- tion 55; wounded severely 82; died of disease 10; died of wounds 15; died of accident and other causes 5; total 197. New England men are: Died from Weunds. Privates—Arthur F. Alden, more Falls, Me.; Louis Biddeford, Mass. Died of Disease. Corporal William E. Hubbard, Tor- rington, Cons. Private Adelard Dube, Nashua, N. H. Liver- Osherowitz, Wounded Severely. Sergeants— George H. Duckworth, New Bedford, Mass.; Herman J. Schaeffer, Waterbury, Conn. Corporal James F. Counihan, Rox- bury, Mass. Privates—Speros D. Andros, Lynn, Guy Bartolotta, Middletown, Willlam J. Brailsford, Provi- dence, R. L; Joseph E. Brozo, Turners Falls, Mass.; Nicola Colarossi, Boston, Mass.; Michael J. -Doole; Charles town, Mass.; Salvan Fratino, Sauga- tuck, Conn.; Phillip W. Fraser, Most- pelier, Vt. Missing in Action. Privates —Ulysses Arhontous, Thompsonville,Conn.; Michael Joseph Sheehan, Taunton, Mass.; Edward J. Sullivan, Andover, Mass. Previously reported missin: tion, now reported wounded undetermined) : Privates—Harry W. Bishop, Lowell, Mass.; Fayette R. Edwards, Wakefield, in ac- g (degree ass. Previously reported missing in ac- tion, now reported killed: Private Harry Tighe, ‘Worcester, Mass. MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES. Summary of casualties to date: Officers, deaths 39; wounded 64; miss- ing 1; total 104; Enlisted men, deaths 951; wounded 1,933; is hands of ene- my 11; missing 152; total 3,047, grand total 3,151. - The following casualties are report- ed by the Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Forces (in- ded in the above total): Killed in action 8; killed accident- 1y 1; died of wounds received in ac- tios 2; wounded in action (severely) 6; missing in action 2; total 19. New England men are: Wounded in Action (severely). Corporal Daniel T. McKenna, Rox- bury, Mass. Missing in Action. Private Malcolm E. Webster, Wal- lasaston, Mass. Independence .of Southern Slavs. Paris, Sept. 20.—(Havas.)—France confined | will recognize the independence of the NORWICH, CONN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918 TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS PRICE TWO. CENTS Oct. ¥9Liberty Day Every City, Town Coun- tryside is Asked to e It in Aid of Liberty Loan. Washington, Sept. 20. — President Wilson ‘today proclaimed Saturday, Oct. 12, the 426th anniversary of the discovery of America, as Liberty day, and called upon_ all citizens to cele- brate it to stimulate a generous re- sponse to the .fourth Liberty loan. Every city, town and countryside is asked by the president to arrange commemorative addresses, pageants, harvest home festivals, or other dem- onstrations, and he directs that all federal employes whose services can be spared be given a holiday. The proclamation foilows: “Every day the great principles for which we are fighting take fresh hold upon our thought and purpose and make it clearer what the end must be and what wé must do to achieve it. We now know more certainly than we ever knew before why free men brought the great nation and govern- ment we+love into existence, because it grows clearer and clearer what su- preme service it is to be America’s privilege to render to the world. The anniversary of the discovery of Amer- ica must therefore have for us in this fateful year a peculiar and thrill- ing significance. We should make it a day of ardent rededication to the ideals upon which our government is founded ang by which our present herofc. tasks are inspired. “Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, do ap- point Saturday, the 12th day of Octo- ber, 1918, as Liberty day. On that day I request the citizens of every community of the United States, city, town and countryside, to celebrate the P discovery of our country in osder to! stimuiate a generous response to the fourth Liberty loan. Commemorative addresses, pageants, harvest home fes- tivals, and other demonstrations should be arranged for in every neigh- borhood under the general direction of the secretary of the treasury and the| immediate direction of the Liberty loan committee in co-operation with the United States bureau of educa- tion and the public school authorities. Let the people’s response to the fourth Liberty loan express the measure of their devotion to the ideals which have | guided the country from its discovery until now, and of their determined purpose to defend them and guarantee their triumph. _“For the purpose of participating in Liberty day celebrations all empioyes on the federal government throughout the country whose services can Le spared may be excused on Saturday the 12th day of October, for the entire day. “In witness whereof, I have here- unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “Done in the District-of Columbia, this 19th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun dred and eighteen, and of the inde- pendence of the ,United - States “‘of America the one hundred and forty- third. “WOODROW: WILSON. “By_the President: “ROBERT LANSING, “Secretary of State.” “WOMEN IN WAR WORK DAY” SATURDAY, OCT. 5 Washington, Sep 20.—In recogni- tion of the war being dona by millions of American women, Secre- tary of the Treasury McAdoo today designated Saturdav, October fifth, for observance in the fourth Liberty ioan campaign as “Women in War Work Day.” i GERMANS KEEP 400,000 TONS + OF DUTCH SHIPPING IDLE Washington, Sept. 20.—The acquies- cense of The Netherlands government in German threats which k 400,000 tons of Dutch shipping 1dle in port while the people of Holland suffer for want cf food these vessels might bring, is commented upon in a statement is- sued today by the state department to clear up misapprehension as to the attitude of the United States toward exports to Holland. The department expresses the hope that The Netherlands government will lift the embargo on the movement of its ships, which constitute the only considerable unit of idle neutral ton- nage, and in effect gives notice that appeals for American foodstuffs will be in vain until Holland follows the example,of the Scandinavian countries, ESwitzerland and Spain and enters in- to equitable agreements with the Unit- ed States and the allies. Reviewing the efforts of the Ameri- can government to lend its as ance, the statement discloses that after re- fusing to approve a tentative general understanding for the export of enor- mous quantities of food, Petroleum, metals ad other supplies reached London last winter, The Netherlands, bowing to the German threat to tor- pedo even ships sailing between neu- tral countries. failed to avail itself of the offer of the United States and the alifes to permit the export of $10 000 tons of bread cereals as arn emergen- v measure. In spite of the free licens- ing of bunker coal. for ships other than those originally stipulated and which car 50,000 tons of cereals to Holland, an additional 50000 tons. of cereals to Holland, an additional 50,000 tons, largely in Argentina, has been left untouched for more than six months. HIGHWAYMEN HELD UP AN AUTOMOBILE Lenox, Mass., Sept. 20. — John E. Parsons, son of Major. Herbert E. Par- sons of the United States army and al- s0 a republican leader in New York state, reported t othe police today that while returning to Lenox from Pittsfield last night by automobile two men stopped the machine and at the point of revolvers searched Mr. Parons ond the chauffeur, relieving each of a small sum of monev. The robbers disappeared in the woods near- by and although Mr. Parsons spread the alarm and a search of the woods was conducted by fifty men no trace of the highwaymen was found. ASSISTANT TO FUEL ADMISISTRATOR GARFIELD Boston, Sept. 20.—Augustus S. Cobb, who has been manager of the conser- vation division of the Massachusetts fuel administration since its estab- lishment a year ago, has been appoint- ed by Federal Fuel - Administrator Garfield, assiétant chief,of State con- servation of the United States fuel ad- ministration. Mr. Cobb will make his headquarters in Washington ard in his new posi- Southern Slavs, accepting a sugges- cial statement issued by the war office | tion from Italy to this effect, the Echo De Paris announces. today. tion will do for the whole United States the same kind of work he has been dogg in Massachusetts. ~ Condensed Telegrams Health of troops abroad and at home is reported good. Siamese troops with a general and staff arrived in France. A report on crop conditions of Can- ada show improvement. Adjutant-General Sherrill ‘of the New York State uard resigned. Sixty per cent. of lowa’s corn crop is safe from the recent frosts and rains. 5 The American schooner Henry F. Kreger is reported in distress off Rio Janeiro. Many persons are reported killed in the’ fire in an ammunition factory in Vienna. President Fehrenbach, of the Ger- man Reichstag, predicts an armstice before the winter. Danish-American commercial and shipping ogreements were completed and signed. 4 The Concrete Ship Corpofation was chartered at Dover, Del., with a capi- tol of $2,000,000. The GarmT War Ministry designa- ted Rastatt in Baden as the' central American prison camp. London newspapers welcome the selection of John W. Davis as Ameri- can Ambassador. Admiral Mayo, commander of the Atlantic fleet was guest of King George at Windsor Palace. American shipping losses .to .the U-boats for the month of August amounted to 28 vessels. Four hundred. italians forced leave Moscow are reported moving northward in an effort to leave Rus- sia. Grand Trunk Railway’s $15,0'00.000' 6 per cent. three-year notes issued in London, were fully subscribed. Manufacturers and business men are | to House Passed the War Revenue Bl It is Designed to Raise by Taxation Approximately $8,182,000,000. A ‘Washington, Sept. 20.—The house late today passed the war revenue bill, designed to raise by taxation ap- proximately ~ $8/182,000 000 of the twenty-four or more billions needed by the nation for the current year. The huge measure—the largest of its kind m the history of any nation— now goes to the senate. Passage of the bill was unanimous. A formal roll call, demahded by Ma- jority Leader Kitchin, recorded 350 yeas and no nayes, - announced by Speaker Clark, was greeted by a roar of cheers and applause. , All possible speed in the bill's course through the senate is assured, according to leaders, the senate finance committee having concluded formal hearings. Deside for the bill's enact- ment before the November elections has beén expressed by leaders of boti ;:mnaes, but this is considered doubt- ul. Consideration of the measure by the house today prior to the vote was brief. An amendment by the house |ways and means committee, which {drafted the bill, extending the deple- !tion allowances to gas and oil wells and mines to include “timber and other natural deposits,” was adopted. Representative Moore of Pennsylva- GOYERNMENT ORDER REGARDING SUBSCRIPTIONS The war industries board has issued a number of rulings applying to the method of conducting the circulation department of newspapers. Previous rulings have already been put into operation, and a recent rul- ing which becomes effective October 1, 1918, requires that we must dis- continue sending the paper after date of expiration of subscription, unless the subscription is paid for in advance. This law, preventing the extension of credit to subscribers, makes it necessary that those receiving the paper by mail, must watch carefully the date of expiration of The Bulletin, and see that renewals are made suf- ficiently in advance of expiration to ruption. insure receipt of paper without inter- It is a government order and must be complied with. During the past week the following matter has appeared in The Bul- letin’s columns, ali for 12 cents a week: Bulletin Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, September 14.. September 16.. September 17.. September 18 September 19 Telegraph Local 150 144 125 138 128 144 Total 475 525 550 531 583 596 General 249 297 323 308 361 76 85 102 87 Totals .... 827 3261 asked to help imw obtaining skilled office men for positions in Washing- ton. The Cologse Zeitung says that Wil- mington N. C., and Charleston, S. C,, (nia, republican, renewed his proposal for a committee to supervise war ex- penditures, but it was disposed of on a point of order, as was another amendment offered by Mr. Moore for a were -bombed by German submarines.{house committee to investigate means The Italian wheat crop is estimated at 164,600,000 bushels this year, com- pared with 140 000,000 bushels in 1917. GCne American marine was lost when the British transport Missana- bie was torpedoed in European waters Sept. 10. Anthracite mines near Pottsville, Pa., with the exception of Blockwood colliery and Buck Run, have resumed operations. German marines are reported guard- ing the Dutch border because of nu- merous desertions of German troops on guard duty. Prompt quarantine of mild cases of Spanish influenza at the Great Lakes Training Station prevented a spread of the epidemic. Steel producers in conference with the War Industries Board asked the!} government to increase the irpn ore 50 cents a ton. By a vote of 100 to 28, the House sitting as a committee, voted down the amendment to the Revenue Bill taxing raw cotton $3 a bales ‘Assistant Secretary of War Franklin price of D. Roosevelt has returned to the United States from Eurape. He is ill with a slight touch of Spanish in- fluesza. Letters from American troops in France tell of a new name, ‘“Amex, forthe soldiers. It is an abbreviation of “American Expeditionary Force.” Prince Axel, head of the Danish Naval Commission, has arrived at Washington. He will remain there for several days as a guest of the naw: According to a report reachisg Lon don, the Russian Empress, three prin- cesses and two grand duchesses were burned to death a month after Russian Emperor was shot. IThe Norwegian steamer Bjornsterne- Bjornson, in service of the Belgian Re- lief Commission, arrived at a Norwe- gias port for repairs, having been fired upon by a German submarine. Van H. Manning, U. S. chief of mines, urged that permits for leasing oil land be passed immediately. The bill i sbeing held up by a disagree- ment between the House and Senate. Henry H. Hall of Wells Depot, a lay preacher at Alfred, Maine, was indict- ed by the grand jury today on the charge of murdering his wife, June 11. It was said at the office of the Hartford board of health that it be- lieved there were at least 50 cases of Spanish influenza in that city. Prince Eric, Duke of Vestmanland, youngest son of King Gustaf of Sweden, died of pneumonia, which de- veloped from. Spanish influenza. He was 29 years old. Rev. John Steik, former pastor of a Tautheran church, in Boston, arrested some time ago, charged with making disloyal remarks at a wedding, was released by the federal commissioner. Seven thousand soldiers in the 36th and 73d infantry regiments. compris- ing the 23d brigade, left Camp Devens yesterday for a hike of two days. John A. Roundberg was shot and killed Thursday night ' near his sport- ing camp at Madawaska lake, Me. It is understood that Roundberg was mis- taken for a deer. Fifteen deaths from pneumonia de- veloping from cases of influenza were reported among soldiers at Camp Dev- ens yesterday. 5 Wreckage believed to be from the Canadian fishing schooner Otokio has been washed ashore at a fishing village near at Atlantic port. 0 The condition of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, who returned from- Europe suffering from a light attack of pneumonia which developed from Spanish influ- enza, was reported slightly improved Vesterday. Thomas Moore of Ni ara - Falls, Ontario, was elected president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Cana- da_vesterday over ;tstsiflng president, . C. Watters, the a vote of 295 to the | of preventing wasteful expenditures. Representative Good of Iowa, republi- can, made a vigorous but futile fight for his amendment. to provide $3,500 exemption from income taxes for per- sons serving in the military establish- ment overseas instead of limiting the exemption as proposed in the bill to govern salaries. A substitute amend- jment by Representative Austin .of Tennessee, republican, to exempt all privotes from incomt .taxation also was rejected. { An amendment in the interest of wine producers drafted and approved | by the treasury department, and of- fered by Representative KXahn California. was denied consideration | because of objections by Representa- tive Stafford of Wisconsin, republi- can. It provided that wine growers could extract alcohol from wine and sell non-alcoholic beverages. Just be- fore the final vote, Representative Longworth of Ohio, republican, char- zed the bill “a mighty good ] nd said it “would show; that tht American heart is grimly set on carry- {ing the war through to the finish and is the best answer the American con- gress ean give to the whining peace proposals from Austria.” 9,313 CASES OF GRIP IN NINE ARMY CAMPS Washington, Sept. 20.—The outbreak of Spanish influenza at five additional army training camps was announced today by Surgeon General - Gorgas. making a total of nine camps in which the disease has been discovered. The total .number of cases reported from all camps up to noon teday was ,313, with 11 deat! umber of cases, 6,513, was reported from Camp Devens, Mass., while Camp Lee, Va., had 1211, and Camp Upton, N. Y., 602. Camp Devens also re- ported 43 new cases of pneumonia, which medical officers believe resulted from the influenza epidemic. The camps includeg in tonight's an- nouncement, with the number of cases at each, were Camp Gordon, Ga., 138; Camp Syracuse, N. Y. 64; Camp Humphreys, Va,, 56: Camp Merritt, N, J., 182, and Camp Lewis, Wash., 11, Tn response to a request from Sur- geon General Biue of the public health service, health authorities in many states sent word today as to the de- velopment and spread of the epidemic. Two vessels with influenza aboard were quarantined ar Newport News, and in all parts of the country steps were taken by health officers to check the spread of the distase. JURY DISAGREES IN FREIE ZEITUNG CASE Newark N. Sept. 20.—After six hours’ deliberation the jury hearing the case of Benedict and Edwin 8. Prieth and William von Katzier, form- the New Jersey Freie Zeitung, charg- od with conspiracy under the espion- age act, informed Judge Haight in the federal court here tonight that it was unable to agree. Finding that the jurcrs were hope- lessly divided, Judge Haight discharg-’ ed them. Counsel for the defendants asked that their present bail be con- tinued, and Judge Haight ordered that this be done. The date for a new trial had not been set tonight. GAMBLERS HELD UP b ON BERLIN TURNPIKE New. Britain, Conn., Sept. 20.—Ac- cording to information received here the men who were held up and rob- bed in a bungalow on the Berlin turn- pike last night were gamblers and had gone to the bungalow to play cards and shake dice. Asleep in the upper story of the building when the ban- dits paid their visit was one man with $2,000 in his pockets. He was awak- ed by a shot but did not descend to . the lower floor. of | The greatest | er publishers and managing editor of | FEIGENSPAN HAS DISCLAIED DISLOYALTY Spent . Pennies. New ~York, Sept. 20—C. W. Feigenspan, president of the United States Bfewers' Association, tonight ‘made public a letter to Senater King chairman of the senate sub-committee on the judiciary, in which he “frankly and freely confessed” that the associa- tiep furnished Arthur Brisbane funds to finance the purchase of the Wash- ington Times. He further admitted that the assoc- iation, and the brewing interests gen- erally, have maintained lobbyists at ‘Washington and in various state cap- itals, “whose business it was to try, where ‘possible, to protect us and checkmate those representing the op- position to our industry.” He denied vigorously, ”howaver, charges of disloyaity or pro-German- ism, both persosally and en behalf of the assodiation, and asked that he be permitted to appear before the sub- committee for questioning ‘“without limit” on all charges involved in the communication regarding the purchase of the Washington Times sent to sen- ator King by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian. Declaring that, for the last 25 years, an organization has existed with the avowed purpose of utterly destroying the brewing industry and has “spent dollars where we have been able to spend pennies,” Mr. Feigenspan “frankly confessed” that the brewing industry generally, in common with every other business, every other or- ganization and every other industry in the nation affected by local, state or national legislation, has been rep- resested at these legislative centers by gentlemen, usually lawyers of rec- ognized ability and unquestioned in- tegrity, but commonly referred to as lobbyists, “whose business it was to try, where possible, to protect us and checkmate those representing. the. op- position to our industry.” He “frankly and freely admitted” that the brewers, “in common with every other industry and every other business in the county, have tried to get before the public every fact that we felt fairly favored the preservation of bur business, even to the extent of supplying the finances for the initial payment on the purchase of the ‘Washington Times.” He declared, however, that “the at- tempt through inuendo” to associate the Times transaction with “certain notorious pro-German activities termi- nating in the control of the New York Evening Mail, is a gratuitous in sult, a dastardly and outrageous libel and unworthy of any representative of this American republig.” industry, any charge against his loy- nation,” He challenged anyone show a better record, “not only of loy- perity, but of loyalty of sacrifice, loy- alty in great losses, loyalty in the hour of destruction of my very subsist- Unequivocally denying, both on his own ‘behalf and that of the brewing alty, Mr. Feigenspan said he wished to fling-the charges back in the face of those who made them” and offered | to match his record with that “of any. man, of high or low degree in this to alty of lip, often made easy by pros- Admits That the Brewers Provided Money For Brisbane to Purchase Washington Times, Also For Lobbyists, to Combat an Antagonistic Organization Which “Has Dollars Where We Have Been Able to Spend ence.” He declared he is “well within the draft age” and is awaiting an oppor- tunity to serve “anywhere and at any time.” He said he has a son and brother who volunteered for army service immediately war was declared. He also declared he was a large pur- chaser of Liberty bonds and had given and worked foy the government “be- yond my rightful means in comparison with many whose patriotism consists largely in mouthings.” William A. Deford, general eounsel of the Star Company, publishers of William R. Hearst's newspapers, the New York American and the New York Evening Journal, issued a state- ment tonight explaining his connection with the Growing Circulation Corpora- tion, the concern through which Arthur Brisbane received the - funds from brewers which enabled him to purchase the Washington Times, as disclosed yesterday by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian. Mr. Deford. who was named es one of the directors of the corporation said he had resigned from the corpor- jation, and he had resigned from the corporation on March 11, 1916, which was more than a year prior to the date of the loan of $375,000 made | through the concern to Brisbane by C. W. Feigenspan, as trustee for a number of brewers. John T. Sturde- vant and Thomas McEntegart, also named as directors of the corporation, |likewise resigned and there was elect- ed as president Mr. Brisbane's father- in-law Seward Carey, with two of the editor’s secretaries as other officers and directors The corporation, said Mr. Deford, was organized on January 13, 1916, at Mr. Brisbane's request as#an in- strumentality for the delivery of Hearst newspapers, and Brisbane ask- ed him, together with Sturdevant his associate, and McEntegart, a clerk in his office, to act temporarily as in- corporators and directors. The Star company declined to contract with the corporation for the distribution of its papers, and the Growing Circulation Corporation “thereafter remained a mere shell” Later Brisbane -advised him that he “desired to take over the nominal as well as the actual owner- ship” and to elect directors of his own choice. This was done at the meet- ing held March 11, 1916, “the first and only meeting of this company which either Mr. Sturdevant, Mr. McEnte- gart or myself attended.” After au- thorizing an issue of $10,000 capital stock to Mrs. Alice Brisbane Thursby, Brisbane's sister, for $10,000 in cash, Deford and his associates resigned and the otheér officers and directors were elected. “The corporation transacted no bus- iness,” said Mr. Deford, “while I or any member of my staff, was con- nected with its directorate, or while its records were in my. possession, and, therefore, I never knew, until the pub- lication of Mr. Palmer’'s statement, that the corporation possesssed any funds or had transacted any busi- ness.” PRESIDENT WILL FIX THE PRICE OF COTTON hington, Sept. Wilson will fix the price of cotton, placing the last of the principal com- modities necessary in the prosecution of the war under governmental regu- Jation, despite strong pressure the southern states. will take over control of the distribu- tion of this year's erop. The decision of the president, defi- week with senators and representa- tives from the coiton states, became known today. Plans to carry out the decision are said to under way. Agitation for the fixing of a price for cotton has been prevalent for a number of months, owing to the rapid- ly mounting ci of cotton products, ang the belief in many quarters that the staple should be placed on the same basis t and other essen- tials the price of which has been fixed. The principal factor in the action of | the president is understood to have been the shortage in the present crop estimates at between 4,000 000 00,000 bales. The price to be named by the presi- dent or the means of controlling dis- tribution have not been decided upon. The president is understood to have emphasized at -his recent @nference jthat a “fair price” would be fixed, but {did not indicate in any way what this | would be. 25 AUTO DRIVERS TRIED ¢ TO EVADE THE DRAFT Hartford, Conn., Sept. Federal officials say certain automobile driv- «rs have endeavored to escape the diaft. Up to today thers have been twenty-five instances discovered and the result will be an addition to the ! draft registration or the cancelling of that number of licenses. Federal agents say they had ticed in their quest for those failed to register Sept. 12 some men ‘urwmg automo ‘es who were not seen in the vicinity of the places of registration. The officials knew that under the state law no-person under 1S years of age could be licensed to drive an automobile and concluded that a person exercising the right to drive a_car was subject to registra- tion. The other day one of these was asked by an agent for his regis- tration eard. - He. had not registered. The federal authorities thouzht it no- who drivers who were ‘also siackers and they ‘proceéded to make investigations with the result that twenty-five have {been found. NEW BRITAIN CAFE OWNER | admitted | Monday a “black hand” letter de- 2 New York, Sept. Niue Amsterdam, with a carge here September 6. 20. — President from In - addition to determining the price, the government nitely announced at a conference this and § more than iikely that there were other} GETS “BLACK HAND” LETTER New Britain, Conn., Sept. 20.—It was at police headquarters to- day that Aaron C. Hinckley, owner of a cafe, had received in his mail last ARRIVES IN HOLLAND Safe arrival in Holland from New York of the liner of foodstuffs, was announced by the Hol- land-American Line. The steamer left EMBARGO ON SHIRMENT OF GREEN CORN FROM BAY STATE New Haven, Conn., Sept. 20.—An or- der prohibiting the shipment of green corn, seed corn on the cob and corn- stalks into the state of Connecticut from the state of Massachusetts was issued tonight by E. H. Jenkins, di- rector of the' state agricultural ex- periment station, with-the approval of Governor Holcomb. The order says that this action -is taken because a destructive insect known as the Eu- ropean corn borer is damaging the corn crop in a section of Massachu- setts and there is great danger that this pest may be brought into Connec- ticut if corn shipments are continued. BANDITS LOOTED ARGO STATE BANK, CHICAGQ Chicago, Sept, 20.—Five bandits to- day lotted the Argo State bank here of virtually every dellar in ite ry. today officials placed the booty at R i mostly bills of small denomination, and between $30,- 0406 and $40.000 in ldberty bonds. The quintet appeared shortly after the opening hour and locked Fred Hel- lar, casl ; A. J. Link. his assistant, and Miss Beda Steinwald, stenogh- rapher, in the lavatory. The robbers escaped in the diree- tion of Jolict in an automobile. 1,811,000 NEW SHIP TONNAGE THIS YEAR Washington Sept. 20.—(By A. P.)— Ship tonnage actually delivered to the Emergency Fleet Corporation so far this year amounts to 1811000 tons. with 2,506,040 tons launched a%1 keels Iaid for 41,103,000. General Manager Piez, of the Emergency Fleet Corpora- tion, giving these fizures to the sem- ate commerce committee today, said deliveries for the month of September probably will reach 400,000 tons. SOLDIER CHARGED WITH POISONING SUPPLY OF FLOUR Camp Dix . 20.—Arrest of a soldier chen po- lice duty, said to have .placed pei- son in a large supplv of flour, was admitted here tonight by camp offi- cia who withheld the prisoner’s name. Detected by officers, none of the poisoned flour reached the mess tables. ‘Army chemists are analvzing the flour to determine the kind of poi- son used. GERMANY PITILESS > IN SUPPRESSING REVOLTS Paris, Sept. 20.—(Havas.)—Because of the acgravation of the internattion- al situation in Germanv., which con- tinues to zrow, the German govern- ment has taken ure tn assure “rapfd and ritiless ression” in case of revolt, a Zurich dispatche report§ teday. . g Westerly Man in Canadian Casualty manding $1,000 and threatening death List. . unless he complied with the demand.| Otawa. Sept. 20 followi The writer did not indicate where the | xov Fntian name sanpear in todare recipient was to leave the money. The| cacualry liet: Woundede R, Slassor latter bore the imprint of a black R L: E. Smith. Worcester, hand. 3 Stewart Boston: M. G. S SR well, Concerd Junction, Mass.: V. CARGO OF FOODSTUFFS address given at Manville, Black, Sound Beach, Conn Serbians Capture 5000 Prisoners. Paris, Sept. 20.—Capture of several villages and 5,000 prigoners are-rec- orded in the Serbian official state- ment made public today.