Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 5, 1918, Page 1

Nowhere are the Teuton Forces Being Permitted to Rest— The Germans in the St. are in a Critical Position, the Roads Being Congrested With Retreating Troops—In Belgian Flanders the Bel- gian, British and French Troops are Driving Forward. (By The Associated Press.) Nowhere are the armies of the Teu- tonic allies being permitted to_rest. On the fronts in Flanders, ¥rance Ttaly, Albania and Turkey the enemy still continues to lose ground, or is bheing compeiled to throw strong rein- forcements into his battle line to hold back his aggressors. In Belgian Flanders, Bri French troops are still driv ward, although their speed has been somewhat lessened by reason of the bad condition of the ground. The enemy is swiftly evacuating the salient between Armentieres and Lens, and the British now are standing only a scant six miles southeast of Lille over a front of about four miles be- tween Wavrin and Equirighen, at the former place having gained a posi- tion astride the ILens-Lillie railroad. Notwithstanding violent counter-at- tacks and 4 line strengthened by fresh reserves, the British between St. Quentin and Cambrai have pressed >stward from the region of Le Cat- rlet and to the north have improved eir positions in Cambrai so well that vparently this important town soon rall. 1 all in all the situaticn of the 'ans in this region seems to be eal and the erisis at hand. Far to aerial observers report the ongested with retreating who are being harassed by the ¢ mun fire of the airmen. As ndere, fires are everywhere to und it is evident the enemy, that he must give further is vigorously applying the d Rheims the French have er extended their gaine rorth and thiwest of the Cathedral City where v are all along the Aisne Canal. To easl in Champagne American rorees are fighting with the French be- tween the Suippe-river and the Ar- FORMER RUSSIAN MINISTER OF WAR MURDERED BY ROBBERS I.ondon, 4, —Alexander J. Guch- koff, former. Russian minister of war «nd leader of the Octoberist party, has been murdered by robbers. This in- formation . was received today by the Central News in a despatch from Am- €lerdam quoting Moscow advices, Alexander J. Guchkoff, minister of wur and marine in. the first revelu- tionary cabinet and speaker of the third Duma. joined the Octoberist par- 1y during the revolution in 1905. In that year he feunded the newspaper Golos Moskvui. %m? he was elect- ) a member of Council . of the I'mpire and then of the Duma, where he led the Octoberist party,iand in 1410 became Speaker of the Duma. M. C-uchkoff resigned as minister of war in May, 1917, declaring that he re- fused to share. responsibilitv for con- ¢itlons then existing in Russia M. Guchkoff in September, 19!7, juined the Kornilofft movemeni and few dayg later it was reported that Ye had been arrested atr Pskov, but was released shortly thercafter A despatch from Amsterdam on June 2% declaréd that.Guchkoff awil I'rofessor Paul Milukoft, leader of the Iussian Constitutions Democrats, bud arrived = at . Hurhin, Manchuria, ©nd placed ulin ai ke head of © counter-reyolutionary movement. PERRETTA BROTHERS GUILTY FIRST DEGREE MURDER Hartford, Conn,, Oct. 4-—Joseph and Frasmo Perretta, brothers, of New Fritain, were found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in crim- inal superior court late today. Judge lucien F. Burpee sentenced them to be hanged at state prison on February | 1919, The Perretta brothers 1arged with the murder of P'alinese last. The jury announced the verdict aft- deliberating 45 minutes and the court pronounced sentence eight min- utes later. Judge Noble E. Pearce, of were Frank in New Britain on Jume er counsel for the defense, in summing up, expressefl the opinion that abso- lutely po evidence had been introduc- ed proving the guilt the accused. State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn de- clared that there was no doubt as to the guilt of the brothers. Judge Bur- pee’s charge to the jury was regarded as wholly favorable to the prosecu- tion. DANBURY FAIR HAS BEEN CALLED OFF Danbury, Conn., Oct. 4. —The Dan- bury fair, scheduled to be held next week, was declared off tonizht be- cause of the influenza epidemic. The question of calling off the fair was dis- cussed at two meetings of city and town officials today and Town Health Officer C. E. Lemmer conferred with Dr. John T. Black, state health com- missioner, and with the promoters of the fair, after which #t was announc- ed_that the fair would not be held. Preparations for the fair, which was 1o celebrate its fiftieth anniversar had been nearly completed, and hors. es and exhibits had arrived here. The dog show entries included ribbon win- (ners from many leading kennels in | the east 'THREE MILITARY AVIATORS KILLED Pensacola, Fla, Oct. 4 —Ensigns Oliver Peterson, of Carnegie, Pa., and D. O. McKinney, St. Louis, were kill- led and Carl Reichell, whose address ! was not known, was seriously hurt in the fall of a hydroplane today in Pen- s2cola Bay. The hodies of Peterson ‘m\:‘ McKinney have not been recov- ered. 9, San Antonio, Texa&, Oct 4—Second lieutenant King Belzer of Arkansae City, Ark., and Cadet R. J. Leader, of Sikins, W. Va, fell in an airplane at ington Field tonight. Lieutenant Relzer died of injuries, but Leader was not seriously hurt. A Portugal Port Shelied. Lisbon, Oct. 4—Two enemy sub- marines today shelled the port of Ce- zimbra, eishteen miles south of Lsi- (bon, The rhore guns immediately re- plied, whereupon the submarines fled. Spitzbergen coal fs sald to be inex- haustible and of good quality. - NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, Quentin and Cambrai Sectors gonne forest In addition to holding their original battle line inside and east of the Argonme forest. West of the Argonne, with the aid of French tanks, the Americans have taken the important height positions of Blanc Mont and the Medeah Farm, and p: sed farther northward. Simultaneously, the French have ad- vanced their front eastward around Challerange and gained better posi i for their operations up the rail- vay toward Vouziers and in keeping the Germans inside the northern por- tion of the Argonne Forest by an en- filading fire through the Aire valley, through the forest driving the enemy before them. The latest reports are that the Americans saye advanced al- most ‘wo miles in the forest and on | the eastern side of the great wood are slowly pressing northward. Throughout this entire region the Germans are resisting most stubborn- In the mountain region in morthern Italy the Ttalians on several sectors have attacked and defeated the Aus- trians, while in Albania the Austro- Hungarians are in fast retreat before the Italian armies. Italian cavalry is working far in advance of the infan- try, herassing the ememy. The Semeni river in western Albanie has’ been crossed and the enemy center invaded. In Palestine the Turks have been driven far beyond Damacus with the British still on their heels harrying them. There are reports that Austria- Hungary again is seeking peace, hav ing invited Holland to request the bel- ligerents to participate in negotia- tions. The Hungarian premier, who has arrived in Vienna with a number of Hu ian statesmen, is quoting as saynig that the Hungarians “again are laboring untirmgly in the interests of peace, and we are already negotiat- ing.” ! LIBERTY LOAN FAR BEHIND SCHEDULE Washington, Oct. The nation is marching toward its six billion doliar dollar loan goal at just a little more than half the speed required ‘o main- ll!noon. daily subscription rate of $315,- 0. Bond sales officially tabulated from reports of banks were announced by the treasury tonight as $855,132, or an increase of $229,000,000 in the sents results for the five working days up to last night, At the standard rate of $315,000,000 a day, the record by this time should have been $1,575,000,000. This method of calculation fails to take into con- sideration, however, the fact that many subscriptions have not been backed up by first payments. and con- eequently are not recognized in the official reports and that natural pro- crastination will cause thousands of citizens to postpone entering pledges until late in the campaign. National headquarters today issued a reminder ithat only thirteen working days re- {main before the subscription bperiod ends October 19. Epidemics of influenza have com- {pelled the abandonment of publicloan meetings in scores of cities, and b made victims of hundreds of canv ers and speag2rs, but reports to head- quarters today told of the auick change of tacties in tles by substituting canvassing for mass RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR DELMONICO’S RESTAUURANT New York, Oct. 4.—Wartime econo- mies practiced by wealthy New York- ! ers resulted today in the appointment by the federa! court of two receivers l{o take over Delmonice’s famous res taurant, which has been operated un- der the same name and family man- agement for approximately 100 years. The restaurant will continue operation under the same management, but di rected by the receivers, ‘until a con- templated reorganization is effected, according to Maurice P. Davidson, one of the receivers. An involuntary petition in bank- ruptcy, which led to the receivership, gave $™1 as the principal claim against the establishment, but Mr. Davidson said the liabilities amounted to more than $200,000. The however, more than cover the liabili- ties, he said. According to Mr. Davidson, the as- sets include. in addition to the good will, which is said to be of great value, $450,000 worth of fixtures, sil- ver, china and linens and a wine cellar which cost $65,000 but which now s believed to have increased in value, SOLDIERS FROM CAMP LEE QUELLED A RACE RIOT Petersburzh, Va., Oct. 4—Soldiers fro{'ln Camp Lee were rushed to Hope- we tween negroes and foreigmers at the plant of the E. I. Dupont De Nemous factory. First reports said two per- sons had been killed in the rioting. Several hours after the first reports were received the soldiers and a com- pany of homve guards were patrolling the streets of Hopewell, but firing still ‘was comtinuing n the negro quarters. It was estimated that more than 1,000 shots were fired during the rioting, but only meagre repoirts as to cas- ualties had been received late tonight. The riot started when a white stew- ard in a restaurant stapped a negro woman embloved there as a cook. BLAST FURNACES MAKE A RECORD PRODUCTION Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 4—A record for production in the hlast furnace department of the Steelton the Bethlehem Steel company was hung up in September, nounced tomight. The local battery m"']d out a total of 51320 tons of metal. furnaces was in eperation throughout the menth. Metz-Sablons</Railwxy Bombed. London, ©Oct. 4—The independent |mi g British force Thursday night bombed |deaths 1,043 the Metz-Sablons railway and air- dromes at Morhange and Frescaty, ac- while the Americans press northward last twenty-four hours. This repre-| late today to quell a riot be-| Ban Not to Be Lifted on Gaslg Sundays A Washington, Oct. 4—#uel Adminis- trator Garfield today refused to Iift the ban on the use of automobiles for the next two Sundays, as requested by Governor McCpll of Massachusetts, to aid in com ing Spanish influen- za. Dr. Garfield's action was based on advice of Acting Surgeon General Richards of the army, that contin- uance of the gasolineless Sundays would have little if any influence on the spread of the disease. Governor .McCall's request was transmitted through J. J. Storrow, fuel administrator for New England, and Was subscribed to by all of the state fuel administrators in that section. They asked that the ban be lifted be- cause in the opinion of physicians there plenty of air and sunshine was essential to combatting the epidemic and the ust of automobiles would con- tribute to this end. Garfield stated that in round numbers there were 3,300,060 barrels of motor gasoline in stock on Sept. 28, the latest figures available, and that on April 1 of this vear, the so- called peal period, there Were approx- m&eaflm H'W%Wrgagmtls on hand, ng a shortage of approxi 1y 7,500,000 barre! degimRy Prospects for the lifting of the ban on the use of gasoline Sundays within the next few weeks were indicated by Dr. Garfield. A plan now is being worked out, he said, through which it Wwas hoved to discontinue the Sunday ban, and substitute what virtually would be a rationing plan, so that gasoline conservation. would fall on no one day in the week. In the mean- time, Dr. Garfield said, the public should accept the situation with pa- tience. L s s T 759 NAMES IN TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS ‘Washington, Oct. 4—The following casualties are reported by the Com- manding General of the American BExpeditionary Forces: _Killed in action 56; missing in ac- tion 33; wounded severely 157; died from wounds 18; died of disease 5; g:leod from aeroplane accident 1; total New England men are: Killed in Action. Lieutenant Benjamin L. Curtis, Northampton, Mass. Privates—Miran A. Silva, E. Taun- ton, Mass.; Everett Ray Seymour, Ridgefield, Conn. Died from Wounds. Sergeant—Robert O. Fletcher, Nor- wich, Conn. Private Warren Louis Hoel, Collins- ville, Conn. Wounded Severely. Privates James Stratus, Greenfield, Mass.; Roceo Vitale, East Boston, Mass.; Isaac Howes Rogers, Chat- ham ,Mass.; Alphonse Waterbury, Conn.; Thomas F. eney, Providence, Ri I. Missing in Action. Corporals—Jeremiah O’Brien, lington, Mass.; Patrick T. Ansonia, Conn. Mell- Ar- Sweeney, FRIDAY AFTERNOON'S LIST Killed in action 48; mi: y ng in ae- tion 86; wounded severely 287; died of disease 10; died of accident and other causes 3; died from wounds 4 prisoners 1; wounded slightly wounded, degree undetermined 6; to- tal 489. New England men are: Killed in Action. Privates—Philip J. O'Connell rence, Mass.; N elson . LaF Hartford, Conn.; Patrick Riatino, Franklin, Mass. Killed in action, previously report- ed missing in action: Private Blendon F. Deane, Skowhe- gan, Maine. Died of wounds received in action, previously reported wounded, degree | undetermined: Corporal John J. MacLellan, Dor- chester, Mass. . Erroneously reported killed in ac- tion: Sergeant Clifford Cartledge, Water- ville, Conn. Died fom Accident and Other Causes. Privates—Russel G. Arey, Camden, Me.; John E. Benson, E. Providence, R L Wounded Severely. Lieutenant Clyde Fulmer Vance, Norwood, Mass. Corporal Peter Yagan, Plainfield, Conn. Privates—Joshua Bond, Roxbury, Mass.; Hugh Fitzsimmons, New Hav- en, Conn.; William F. Beebe, New lon, nn.; Frank R. Colangelo, ‘Waterbury, Josepb Gyzonskd, ‘Winchester, Anton Kronicski, Norwich, Conn.; William J. McCoy, Fall River, Mass.; Joseph McDermott, New Haven, Conn Patrick McHugh, Cambridge, Mass.; Charles McKenna, Canton, Mass William John Mec- Laughlin, Forestville, Conn.; John F. Maloney, Meriden, Conn. Wounded (Degree Undetermined) Private William Armstrong, Somer- villee, Mass. Wounded, previously reported miss- ing in action: Corporal John F. Hinchey, Hyde- ville, Vt. Privates — Frank W. Generazio, Newton Upper Falls, Mass.: John B. Mattro, Providence, R. John Stev- enson, Worcester, Mass.; Ralph J. Cozzens, Webster, Mass.; Joseph Mathieu, Fall River, Mass. Missing in Action. Privates—Perry W. Burns, Walth- am, Mass.; Terence O’Brien, Glouces- ter, Mass. Sick in hospital, previously report- ed missingd in action: plant of | port, Conn. Corporal Joseph D. Benway, Lower Road, Barlington, Vt. Privates—Charles P. McGuire, Cam- bridge, Mass.; Charles F. Sizor, Deep River, Conn. Prisoner, previously reported killed in action: Private Jacob Steinkamp, Bridge- Returned to duty, previoysly ported missing in action: Private_Joseph D. Lipsett, re- Man- The complete battery of six |chester, N. H. MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES. Summary of casualties to date: cers — deaths 40; wounded 67; in total 108: enlisted men— ; wounded 2,041; in hands of enemy 21; missing 158; total 3,257; The following ¢ alties are re- O cording to an official communication | ported by the Commanding General of itsued tonight, the American Expeditionary Forces Vertefeuille, | Condensed Telegrams Production of the Miami Copper Co. in September amounted to 5 012,865 pounds. . The tomatc output of Maryland will be bought by the government for §16,- Bruno Steindel, widely ‘cellist, resigned from the Symphony Orchestra. i Total sale of War Saving and ! Thrift stamps to date in New York is placed at $30,780,349. Merchant tonnage completed in British shipvards in September amounted to 144,722 tons. The Order of the Black Eagle was conferred upon former Chancellor von Hertling by the Kaiser. No first papers will be issued from QOct. 6 until election day, the natural- ization bureau announced. During the two weeks ended Sept. 27, 753 wounded and sick soldiers landed in the United States from rance, President Wilson, in the near fu- ture, will order uniform wages for the different trades in all war industries. The Ford Motor Co, produces 150! tractors a day. Last October the out- put was only 13 for an entire month. | Two merchant vessels arriving at an Atlantic port report that a U-boat is in operation 200 miles off the Atlantic Coast. Such progress has been made in tHe building of concrete ships that the government has ordered 59 tankers and barges. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was received in audience by King Albert of Belgiura. Twenty pounds .of quinine was shipped by the American Red Cross to the leper colony at Farafangana, South Madagascar. Seven thousand skilled workers = are needed for immediate general military duty in the air service of the United States Army. Paul Anderson, of the Y. M. C. A. in Moscow, who was arrested by the Bolsheviki and held 'for investigation, ‘was released. Robbers who dynamited a safe of thé First National Bank at Cecil, Pa., overlooked $79.000 in cash and escaped with two Liberty bonds. An order for between 55,000 and 60,- known Chicago OCTOBER 5, 1918 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS Signs of Dissolution of Dual Monarchy It is Rumored That a Coali- tion Cabinet in Each Coun- try is Contemplated. Amsterdam, Oct. 4—The German mewspapers are devoting much atten- tion to the political affairs of Austria and Hungary and say that the forma- tion of a coaliticn cabinet in each country is contemplated. According to the Weser Zeitung of Bremen, the Austrian ministers have become panic stricken, and fearing that the roof wili fall on their heads, are ready to make concessions to the separatist parties. This newspaper says that. Baron Von Hussarek, the Austrian premier, intends to form a coalition ministry and carry out reforms in the direction of federalization where he believes federal; ion will result in Austria- Hungary quitiing the war and termi- rating the alliance with Germany, and lead, in effect, to the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy. Telegrams from Vienna report that a great sensation was caused by the speech of the Czech depuiy, Stanek, who expounded in the reichstaz the Czecho-Slovak programme and vio- lently attacked Germany and Hun- gary. The speech raised 'a wild up- roar among the German deputfes, who accused Stanek of treachery and shameless disloyalty, and the presi- dent called the offending deputy .to order. But the effect of the speech was not confined to the chamber and led to a movement to combine the Christian Socialists, the German So- cialists and the Viennese progressives with the German National party in common action against the Separat- ists. Meanwhile, telegrams from Budapest state that the demand for the forma- tion of a coalition cabinet in Hungary becomes more insistent and that a plan is on foot to bring Count Stephen Tisza and Count Julius Andrassy, for- mer Hungarian premiers, and Count Albert Apponyi, former Hungarian | We all cannot wear QOurs Not To Do or Die Ours But To Save and Buy Ours merely the easy, pleasant task of lend- ing Uncle Sam—at a good rate of interest— | the money needed to maintain the boys who are doing and dying in France. uniforms, but we all can draft our dollars into service. BUY BONDS TODAY AT ANY BANK 000 tons of steel shapes was report- ed taken by eastern structural steel| | plants for export to Japan. | The War Trade Board ordered con- tinued for the last quarter of the year | ithe rate of imports of crude rubber | | which was effective Oct. 1. | Congressman Bertrand H. Snell of | New York was chosen by the execu- tive committee of the Republican State committee to be their chair-| man. The War Deparment announced the !seizure of two hoarded wool clips of William Perry, of Burgetstown, Fa., and C. C. Clements, Corinth, Va. Production of crude oil for the world | in 1917 amounted to 500,8651.000 bar- rels. the United States producing 67 per cent., or 335,0009J0 barrels. For charging exorbitant prices for | foo uffs to Aliied governments E. L. | Whittmeyer & Co., wholesalers of ifouds(uf{s, of New York, lost their | license. Major-General Merritte W. lreland, medical corps, was nominated by | president Wilson to be surgeon-gen- eral of the army for four years, be- | ginning Oc i War Minister Trotzky, according to Narodne Dielo of Petrograd, issued an | order demanding all women of Kazan | ibe delivered into the hands of the Red { Guards. The French National Committee, in| charge of restoration of war damage, | demands the Allied governments "de-!‘ stroy town for town church.” The proposed amendment to the! Chicago Board of Trade rules making; grain in carload lots deliverable atany | time during the month in case of| emergency was adopted. Conservation and voluntary meas- fures in Canadian homes reduced the | consumption of flour from 800,000 to! 600,000 barrels a month, compared ! with pre-war consumption. Blame for the collision of two pas- | senger trains on the Nashville, Chat- tanooga & St. Louis Railroad at Nash- ville, July that killed 101, was plac- ed on the “operating officials.” Government inspectors of airplanes! and aeronautical engings and mechan- | lics in charge of planes will have to make a flight once a week to give them a proper idea of their responsi- | bility. | Judge Edwin B. Parker, priorities commissioner, ordered the agricul- tural implement and farm operating equipment industry to use 25 per cent. less iron and steel during the year beginning Oct. 1. Four men were arrested in New York on a charge of attempting to steal packages from a Wells-Fargo Bxpress Co. wagon. The packages contained goods consigned to the gov- ernment valued at $15,000. Harry Stein, an automobile dealer of Sound Beach, is at the hospital in Greenwich in possibly critical state from injuries received by the over- turning of his machine yesterday.| | Another man in the machine escaped injury. and church for | CHINA ASKS PRESIDENT WILSON TO ACT AS MEDIATOR Peking, Wednesday, Oct. 2 (By the A. P.).—The suggestion that Presi- | dent Wilson be invited to mediate between North and South China is made by a Peking newspaper, “Ameri- ca havin ginvited China to foliow its example in alinging against the central powers.” 5 (included in above total): killed im action 1; died of wounds received in action 1; wounded in action (severe- ly) 9; total 11. No New England men. & i i | o minister of instruction, net of Premier V Count Michael the Hungarian inde party, had a with Premter Kekerle: ought an interview with Emperor Charles, also 3 arousdll much attention. into the The f: A NEW PEACE MOVE IS DEVELOPING IN VIENNA Amsterdam, Oct. 4.—A delegation of Hungarian men, headed by Pre- mier Wekerle ved at Vienna in connection peace move, according to the ( sazette The other members of Wekerle party were Count Stephen Tisza and Count Julius Andrassy, former pre- mérs of H ry, and Count Albert pponyi, the Hungarian minisicr of struction, A new and decisive stan will he taken on the initiative oi Baron Bu- rian, the Austrian foreign minister, the newspaper sa; Regarding the negotiations a* Vi na, Premier Welkerle-said to the resentz of a Hungarian new per much I can teli you-—we are again labori in the interests of peace, and we are already negotiating AUSTRIA ASKS HOLLAND TO START PEACE NEGOTIATIONS rdam, Oct. 4—Austria-Hun- requested nd to invite to take part in peace corres- att. The correspondent adds Holland al- ready has sent out the invitations. LANSING HAS RECEIVED NO INVITATION FROM AUSTR!A nts negoti . 52) pondent of the B ion Washington. Oct. 4. Secretary Lansing tonight autl d the state- ment that the American government has received no invitation from A tria-Hungary to take pact in pes negotiations as outlined in a despatc fronm’” Amsterdam quoting the corres- pondent of the Berlin Tageblatt. 1 NEW ENGLAND MEN IN GERMAN PRISON CAMRS Washington, Oct. {.—Names of two officers and 58 enlisted men of the Cmerican expedition forces held prisoners of war in Germany were an- nounced today by the war department. The officers are: Lieutenant Horace Wells, Denver, Colo., held at Karlsruhe, and Lieu: tenant Ross Mathis, Cotton Piant, Ark,, held at Stralkowe. The enlisted men include: At Cassel: John Green, Methuen, Mass. % At Rastatt: Private William D. Bell, Quincy. Mass. At Limburg: Jack Bathgate, Oranze, Conn. At Darmsstadt: Harry Re Davis, Rellows Falls, Vi.; Czeslow Switrosky, 66 George street, Ansomia, Conn At camp unknown: Arthur George Bradley, Bristol, Conn. |CHARGED WITH SKIMPING U. 8. ARMY UNIFORMS New York, Oct. 4—Six sub-con- tractors manufacturing army uniforms were arrested here today by agents of the department of justice on a charge of. comspiracy to defraud the Zovern- ment. The men, it is alleged, “skimp- ed” garments which they were under contract to manufacture and diverted the cloth so saved to thair own uses Those arrested were John Shinkin, Benjamin Weintraub, Samuel Goor- tow, Samuel Tickar. Isadore Pomerantz and aJcob Schultrin. They were held in $5,000 bonds each for grand jury in- vestigation. | lcaving MANY MEN KILLED N AN EXPLOSIN AT MORGAN,N. At the Plant of the T. A. Gillespie Shell Loading Company— Detonations Shook the Country for Miles Around—Esti- mates of Number Killed 100—Fire Apparatus and Medical Assistance Called For From Surrounding Towns. Perth Amboy, N. J., Oct. 4—Many men were killed and scores of others injured in a tremendous explosion early tonight at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Shell Loading company at Morgan, near here. This explosion, which shook the countryside for miles around and caused citizens of South Amboy to flee from their homes, was followed by a series of less severe ex- plosions and by a fire which for hours defied the efforts of fire departments summoned from all nearby cities and towns. The number of dead and injured can- not be determined until employes of the plant answer a roll call in the morning. Estimates late tonight, how- ever, placed the number of killed and hurt at from 50 to more than a hun- dred. Ambulances sent from here and car- rying 25 doctors returned with many of the injured. Ambulances despatch- ed from Elizabeth and other cities were reported to be takKing other vie- tims to those cities. Eight bodies were placed tonight in the morgue at South Amboy, and oth- ers were being removed from the plant shortly before midnight. It is believed that several more men were in the building where the original ex- plosion occurred -and that these were blown to atoms. The plant, which is being operated for the government by the Gillespie company, employs several thousand men and women, working in three shifts, but officials said that tonight there were only about 500 men in the plant when the explosion occurred. and Hurt are Placed at 50 to Were The plant was engaged in loading high explosive shells. With the first explosion, Zovernment officials tele- phonéd to nearby army camps for sol- diers to serve as guards, and several hundred, with a detachment of coast guards, were rushed to Morgan. The plant, which covers an area of 12 square miles, comprises many small buildings. situated along Cheesequake creek. The first explosion occurred in one of these buildings, in which T. N. T. was being made, and the flames, spreading to other structures, caused a series of further blasts. The first blast was terrific. It ehat- tered nearly all the glass in South Amboy, one and a half miles away, and was felt for a radius of nearly ten miles. Calls for fire apparatus and medical assistance were at once sent to other communities. The fire is still burning, but is said to be under control. The property damage has not been esti- mated. _ The first structure blown up soom was a roaring furnace. For hours the firemen could make no effort to re- cover bodies, for the heat was so in- tense that no one could approach with- in several hundred yards of the build- ing. The scene at the plant was like a bit of the western front. Seen in the light of the flames were men running madly about, some nursing injuries, while overhead rolled clouds of smoke. Here and there came the roar of shells exploding, like the bark of field artil- lery. LARGE WAGE EARNERS SHCULD BUY BONDS Boston, Oct. 4.—An urgent appeal to Liberty loan workers throughout New England to make special efforts to reach employes of industrial estab- lishments in which large wasges being paid was sent out today by New England campaign committee. The committee poinied out that hun- were drawing much ever before as 2 and many of free from taxa- re G them tion, Reports for the fifth day as tabulated today were disappojinting to the committee. Iigures given out by reserve bank Boston federal ed subscriptions 93,000, nearly two and a under the mark which hoped to n éach day. tetal for the di s $14 more t 0,090,000 ary reafler o 7,000, to b an ave- to : of 1obtain ti In pe cut led the seriptions ith sub- 58,000, )00, Mas f Connecticut. on’s net total for the camual ive o all contribu > communitie New the northern reported the’ At the er England towns, par ection in ts - quotas. of honor and Connecti- { AUSTRALIAN COMMISRION COMING TO UNITED STATES Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 4{—Henry sraddon recentiy appoint- ed Australian United 3 trade after vantage of sit the United rrangements Australian of working d by the Braddon s he conceived notions but is ar 1 secure all the information available in banking and financial circles to en- able him to propose a sound founda- tion for trade reciprocity. His ap- pointment has been widely approved both in Australia and Great Britain. To take the post of Australian com- issioner M Braddon relinquished the Australasian direction of Dalgety, Ltd., a great financial concern, at the request of the Australian government SOCIALLY GIFTED WOMEN TO CHEER CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS New York, Oct. 4.--Sccially gifted women, college graduates of the high- est personal character, are being re- cruited to cheer up convalescent Amer- ican soldiers abroad by the intercolle- giate committee on women’s war work abroad, representing more than 100 colleges, which held a conference here today. The American Red Cross expressed a need for additional hospital hut workers and nu aide college women will do their share, it was stated, in helping to supply them. Already many college women have gone abroad as secretaries, motor drivers and trained social workers. BOSTON ARMORY LEASED AS A WAR HOSPITAL Boston, Oct. 4—Governor MecCall announced tonight that the common- wealth armory would be leased to the war department for use as a hospital for a period to extend to one and one half years after the end of the war. The army is now occupied by divi- sions of the quartermaster’s depart- ment. CHARGED WITH MAKING DEFECTIVE SHELLS FOR ARMY Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 4—W. J. Oli- ver, millionaire manufacturer, and ten other officers and other employes of the W. J. Oliver Manufacturing company were It on charges of conspiracy, frau _sabotage in the manufacture ive shells for the United States army seized by governme: The plant was agents, Peking, We A P ght Pe NeWspapers w SUppro ¥ nd the ope tions of a news agency suspended for publishing reports concerning new Japanese loans. and the| SEVERAL HUNDRED NURSES TO BE SENT TO BOSTON Boston, Oct. 4—Word was received tcday from the public health service at Washington that several hundred nurses would be sent here at once. Many nurses who have come from outside the commonwealth are return- ing to their homes, at the request of their local authorities. . Several from Providence have returned to that city from Brockton. Others have returned v Y ine and cther states. the increase in the es in their own com- he reason for the with- number of munities w drawal, of exorbitant charges by attending influenza pa- rasulied in a warning being is- sued from the state house todav. Iealth Commissioner Kelley cautioned several hundred physicians.in.the of the state that they must pt any fees, whatever, while ller P. Be cretary of the hoard of on in medi- said idence were pre- that 1 to h by regular physi take immediate was rature. oavercharging ard would The pubHe action ed to report any cases of this REPRIEVE ARRIVED AFTER MAN HAD BEEN EXECUTED Clevelan Akror kron policen: hio penitentiary at just a few stay Columbus hoars before of execution n. e mails was blamed court Slowness of 1 = Appeilate | week ago, but the of an- - of the appeliate court was efore the would be- ive. Att tor Biondi nt a court bailiff to Cleveland on uesday 1o obtain the siznature of the other judge. Appel Judze Law- Tenge si the pape Tuesday af- which the clerk placed in the 1 Columbus, re: 8 a. m. tcday, but Biondi already had been electrocuted. 16 ALLEGED MOONSHINERS 2 INDICTED AT BOSTON | Boston, Oct. 4.—Sixteen alleged moonshiners from Falli River and Dighton were indicted today by the federal grand jury on charges of fail- ing to register distilling apparatus with the collector of internal revenue. The men were recently arrested in a raid which was declared by federal (fficers to“have been the most exten- sive ever conducted in the north. The officers alleged tzat the men were con- ducting stills in their homes. True bills were returned by the grang jury against Harry Flkins, Frank Dido, Frank Tombari and Rom= alo Tomoso of Springfield, who are charged with conspiracy to steal gov- ernment property from the gquarter- master's stores in Springfield. POLICEMAN SAW HAWKINS SHOOT AND KILL PANNELL Bridgeport. Conn., Oct. 4—The main point in testimony for the state in the trial known as “Baby Hawkins, Doll, charged with murder of Norris Pan- Jake nell in the Keystone club riot last December, today, was when Patrolman ‘William Greene s wore that as he peeped through a hole in a door at the Keystone club rooms he saw Hawkins shoot and kill Pannell. WORST OF EPIDEMIC IS OVER AT NEWPORT Newport, R. I, Oct. 4—The heaith authorities today for the first time said they felt satisfied that the worst of the epidemic here was over. The 24 hours have showed thirty less and deaths have also decreased. police patrol the streets and see that no navy man without a prop- er pass roams at large. Army men haye been kept within the confines of their posts since the epidemic started. SEVENTY MASSACHUSETTS BOOTLEGGERS SENTENCED Boston, Oct. 4.—/Seventy self-con- fessed bootlegzers from all parts of Massachusetts were brought into the United States district court today for ‘ntence for supplying liquor to men service. Judge: James M. Morton, fined fir: offenders from $25 to £100. Joseph Nero and John J. Stack. both of Loweil, the 1y old offenders, six months’ sentences. L)