Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 23, 1918, Page 1

. VOL. LIX—NO. 254 ~ POPULATION 29,919 _OCTOBER 23, 918 FALL OF VALENCIEN BRITISH FORGES 13 Haig’s Troops Have Entered the City on the West—To the North They Have Made a Deep Thrust Into the Raismes Forest—Appreciable Gains Being Made by the Allied Forces in Belgian and French Flanders—In the Sectors in France Where Americans Are Fighting Activity Has Greatly Diminished (By The Associated Press.) | th The fall of Valenciennes to Field | Marshal Haig's forces is imminent ite the Gesperate resistance of the | V¥ Germans, the British have entered the | {f ou the west, while to the north Slavs e encmy west of Meerendre. : An item of great interest appears i the latest-announcement by the French war office concerning operations along Czecho- with us retook the village of c Aisne. It eays: “The v have made a deep thrust into the great Raismes forest and are moving n the direction of Conde, near the|d wngle of the Scheldt £ 1o Valenciennes had been' in uninter- | ipted French po: on from 157 | the onrush of the Germans early e present war led them many i M les into France. It is now about to |3 e added to the rapidiy srowing list of | ywns the redemption of which has| the progress of the allied 'a d up somewhat in the stiffening of the lines of rear | ch! uards al he retreat of the Ger- | th man arm ppreciable gains een made, some of them of much jan mportance. ; j in Hollain and Bruyelles on the Scheldt, | ba: Tournai, are now in the hands ! t and north of Tournai Froyenne has been enemy, who is with- the Scheldt. There has ay at Point-a-Chin: Germans are battling hard to k lies from outflankin orth. Behind ) the | ye the Scheldt nassed in strength: their machine zuns,on the east bank are active and re feceiving the support of artillery | nd trench mortars or In the northern b e area the Bel siams have reached the canal | set ong their entire and bave cap- |s sred a bridgehead numbers of ! GERMANS IN NIGHT AiR RAID ON AMERICAK FRONT the American Northw \, P.j—In retaliation for the destruc- | ce by Amer sombins | uy within the enemy’s ines re-|j Fr | the e: rmy, Belgian and French Flanders | The ace | tor have | with mustard and other gas sh he Germans are | are calli inate Legion of “rench are still moving active- to_the north of Laon and have now mpleted the occupation of Chalandry southwest of ihent they are firmly sestablished on st bank of the Lys river, having d Grandlup. To the crossings at several point @ I the enemy resisted wit! termination. Around Le Cateau, where Americanl: \t rejoicirg to the French people. are fighting with the British Fourt] agh the Brog: ¥ has diminished greatly. came is true of the American sec- | s where the of thé ememy has heen activi northw fef activity e shelling of of Verdun, the American air raid. which came nea the destruction of an <e hospital. The German reply to President W America son is &till the subject of much com- ment, agreeing ihat Germany means adequatel. ing for the crossings tMe president 3 the | Official cogn newspapers and public and the ance of the note h: Meanw! himself from the for other reasons. Winter, unusually late this vear, h northern Ru: CARDINAL GIBBONS A GRAND ENNES 10 INENT lines | line, Mass. is, and r to achiev- alike | Sherri; has by no|Died from Accident and Other Causes met the desires of | allied powers. s not t been taken by the United States wai on the | zovernment ile numerous German papers g upon the emperor to elim- question and declaring that peace must not be de- layed on account of the Hohenzollerns d Tull is looked for | Waterbury 3 Cabled Parag_raphs Aerial Work by Americans. With the American Army Norihwest. of Verdun, Oct. 22, 9 p. m.—(by The A P.) The clear weather eariy this morning permitteds of some aerial ork and the Americans downed a fannover biplane at Bayonville, a Rumpler at Buzancy and a balloon m the vicinity of Tailly. 1,217 NAMES IN TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS ‘Washington, Oect. 22.—The follow- ing casualties are reported by ‘ the Commanding General of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 100; missing in ac- tion, 72; wounded severely 101; wounded slightly 105; died from acci- dent and other causes 3; died from wounds 49; died of disease 83; wounded (degree undetermined), 145, prisoner 1; died ‘of aeroplane acci- dent 1; total 660. in| New England men are: ed in Action. Corporal Harold S. Murphy, Hous- atonic, Mass. Private Dewey S. Green, Unionville, Conn. Missing in Action. Private William E. Dooley, Bridge- port, Conn. Wounded Severely in Action. s, | Privates — Roderick H. Wogan, 1 | Brookline, Mass.; Spiretone Mili, i Quincy, M William L. Welsh, Lawrence, Mass.; William Henry Gaffney, Methuen, Mas: Slightly 'Wounded. Lieutenant John S. Bruce, Franklin, N. H Corperal Andrew R. Duffy, Brook- Privates—Arthur _Boucher, ter, Mass James F. Casavan, Wor- n | cester, Mass; Thomas L. Connelly, South Deerfield, Ma ; Clarence H. Goff, Wallingford, Conn.; James Kelly, Boston M: Eugene B. New Bedford. Mas Worces- Private Walter Sobiske, Bridgeport, Conn. : Died of Wounds. Corporal John R. Rhynard, North Attleboro. Mass. Private John bury, Conn. Wounded Sergeant Derby, Conn. Corporals — Edward A | Lynn, M Carl A Alfred ricson, Water- (Degree Undetermined). Winfield McFarland, Besenbri: Hurley, : Thomas Fair Haven, Conn. | Newton Padzniski Conn y W. Br ndow, _ Hartford, Conn, A. George, New Brit- OFFICER OF LEGION OF HONOR | o™ Coni ™ oinn Hamornick Foreat. Baltimor Ma., Oet Cardinal | vil Conn.; Frank . McFarland, ‘bbhons today ced * his ac- | Derby, Conn Petro ptance of the distinction conferred | Haven, Conn Ropiak, New en Wim br the French zovernment | Britain, Conn. Ruffin Mid- making him a Tionor. In a mbassador at and officer of the | dletowh er to the Washington. Conn Derby, Conn. Michaél E. Smith, through whem the intention ‘of the| TUESDAY AFTERNOON’S LIST. e e s A G |+ Killed in action 40; missing in ac- " B ore ot iUl nd aanage | Hon . 43:° ‘wounded - :sevemsly..17: 5 O S ! Mmie” | wounded slightly 45; dled of accident Mont faticon Rarecour. | dropped near t wospital in the neighborhonl i the o0 | beon “a. nation 7 \iatar recomr oy the tombs~tear- | | wAs it wié when the sofl of vo LR < down' an ding. The slass [ Rofgved contry, nniting Lotin culture | W Fngland men are four former French Harfacks | vo the novtiors thcoe s fdrat weld | Killed in Action. e merea® " "OSP°ed together,” the cardinni said, “so| Corporal Milton . Lane, Glouces- s, weee shattered | again upon the soil of France has this | ter, Mass A Red Cross nurse, Ma SAWYC | jast terrible conflict heen foueht in| Privates—Alfred Dohna New Hav- aio, -N IFOM | which the eause of civilization and|en, Conn.: james S. Gagas, Mariboro,! ed. but was Hot injured ine| Jiborty has ieert assured.” Mass.: Robert Maclnnis, . Brookline - wore taken o dugouis, mons; \mpgssador Jusserand. in his let- | Mass. t them being injured, Another:Redl ter motifying the cardinat of the pur- Missing in Action. o nurge, Mibel vtler. o w of his government, s2id the de L e 1 » V. o, 1 s R e b i e dec | Lieutenant Joseph I. Wehner,Ever- ven, Cabi. was n - fon comes from a eomntry “which | oyt 3acs with ‘Mise Sawver, bi nety r.had for the 1 Satandiesaoaite s ( Ad= ¢ rak *. Both of them immediately wens e oA v " the | geoergeant George I Huestis, Wake- the aid of the patients warmest. sentiments of friendship | 100 Mass W the first bomb fell the ho A e dhy Slightly Wounded. | Zlendants sme thelr el 40| NEw WAVEN PRO.GERMAN piSereant. Robert B. iurley, Haver- ng’ them tor. Rocks | CAUGHT AT SAN ANTONIO|PHY Mass. e arrying . Corporal John Lavorgna, Rumford, rown up when 1" bomb struck Haver. (onn.. Oct. 22.—Max- | Maine. d 2 ke the windows it the southern end von lloegen, a young lawyer the building. Ten other bombs we anted in succession in a great sem je. Throughout of (he n jerman planes were heard many times | jag to ; call from citizens who assing over. rough'y m n1 compelled TR T e him to kiss the American flag some OUTBURST BY INSURGENT months ‘ago. and who cluded secret | SAILORS IN PETROGRAD | 5* Stockholm, Monday, Oct —(By he A. P.)—Several thousand insur- zent sailors stopped the performance he Marinsky Theatre ir Petrograd n October 14 and compelled the or- onir. gloriou ances “and Antornio, received here today. Von loegen will | be return~d here but the charges to in the United been disclosed, | be States red rat hout their timely a city wofessed f Ambassador en von bin it rmer rvice men, has been caught at Sa Toxas, according to hrou zainst him has not satry-conld never have | whose pro-Gorman utter- | Bernstorff | word ; died of wound (degree ijand other causes 11: Wounded undetermined) died of disease 54; prisoners 21; Died of Wounds. Corporal Llewellyn €. Small mouth, Mass. . Wounded (Degree Undetermined). . Lieutenanis — Joseph A. Cistero, Danbury, Conn.; Henry C West Somerville, Ma Sergeants—Walter Bober, New Brit- ain Conn.; Roy D. Hitchcock, East Hampton, Conn.; Winthrope Hubbell | Enosburg Falls, Vt.; Edward Livese: Newburyport, Mass; John J. Sull van, East Boston Mass. Ply- n Corporals—Dayid J. Collins Paw- ol Ir out a onaire vo D '“"’u"’t‘"“ a march o the Smol- | 7, o8 <ax‘(;‘ to have tade Insit- | tucket, R. 1 Joseph ~ L. Fleming, 'y » in protest against Iheling references to the United States,| Brattieboro, Vt. order of M. Zinovieff, head ‘of the | % cs nited States, trograd ~ommune, ailors, aceording to nz here today. The Bolshoviki organized a resist- \ice and the sailors were attacked and isfeated. Many of them later were e> cuted. Street fighting and riots con- nued for several days as the result Jf an attempt to round up the men suspected of promoting the uprising. The sailors have been disaffected nee the summary execution in June ast of Admiral Stchasnig, command- + of the Baltic fleet, who saved it rom capture bv the Germuns. Simultaneotsly with the outbreak n Petrograd there was trouble in Moscow, but fts extent is not known it is attributed to an uprising of the | m ~ocial revolutionists. conscripting all neutrals arriv- th 13271 DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA IN PENNSYLVANIA a an- noumeed that 13,271 deaths had oc- curred in Pennsylvania irom influen- za and its complications since October In the same period 5283 deaths have ocecurred from pneumonis To 6 p. m. today 1238 new cases had - o m':ule::m A.::\- # reported s o -“lr‘vn& Cambrai, Elk, Somerset, West- moreland and Bedford counties and parts of Fayette. The department stated that the estimated number of cases in Lusern county is 10,500, The disemse was stated to be sub- siding in Delawate, Montgomery, Ly-| . coming and Philadelphia counties and in Chester except about Coatesville. INFLUENZA HAS CUT COAL TONNAGE ABOUT 25 PER CENT. e comiied B soiais oo | 0 county fuel - ministrator, Williams, the epidemic of influenza in this county has cut coal onnage about twenty-fiva per cent. Thirty per cent. of the mine workers are absent through iliness. To date there have been over 3,000 cases re- ported in the county with over 400 deaths. NEW WAR CREDIT TO BE R credit of «whmitted to 1\ November, aceording to the Munica rrespondent of g Rivenish West- and The young man's family reside here. Telephone company hecause of caused by the Spanish influenza epi- It was said that 2,000 or about Zo per cent. of the operators, zre il demic. from dist because of this he was sough SHORTAGE OF TELEPHONE OPERATORS IN NEW YORK New York, O 22.—The New Yor y today suspende rvice in half the public buoths he: a shortage of Additional complaints were receive today that doctors and druggists are avercharging intluenza patients, and that landlords are withholding heat An ordinance which wenld compel landlords to_keep ther- in their houses at 68 de- grees was introduced at a meeting of today. It dopted, the measure will supplement a gimilar clause in the sanitary code under which several been arrested. STEEL FROM SHIPYARDS tenants. ometers e board of aldermen FOR OTHER WAR INDUSTRIE Philadelphia, Oct. 22.-From ith a shortage of labor. “My next problem.” said strict.” FAMINE CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA ARE APPALLING —4 sage de- [ GF/ scribing famine conditions in Russia as “appallingly critical” and urging that all possible co-operaticn be given the Red Cross in supplying food, was received here tonight by the Joint Centenary Committee of the Metho- Church from Dr. George . Simons, Methodist :ni SUBMITTED T0 REICHSTAG | Do i g i etrograd. “Send foed for Tetrozrad children via Denmark immediately.” read the message. “The moral effect work would result in increasing Rus- n sin's sympathy and esteem {or Amer- New York, Oct. 22. L landlords have 10,000 10 15,000 tons of steel allotted to ship- vards will be released each week for other war industries, it was announc- ed today by Charles M. Schwab, di- rector-general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation after a_conference with representatives of all the steel ship- vards of the east. The 50,000 tons a week assigned to shipbuilding, it was stated. proved to be bevond the needs of the plants, operating as they are, Mr. Schwab, “is to get 150,000 more train- ed ship workmen. The shortage ex- iste in all the vards of the country and especially in the Delaware River of such Bugler Charles R. hampton. Ma: Mechanic Louis River, Mass. Privates—Joseph T. tucket, R. L; Joseph Bruzgi jc|idence, R. I; Charles Cullinan, Jr., 1| Bangor, Maine; Roberts John Barrus, Nolan, RBast- G. Lavigne, Fall Brais, re | Keene, N. H.; Harvey Barton, Attle- operators boro, Mass.; David McAlpine Bur- nett South Hadley, Mass.; James B. Fallon, Lowell, Mass.; Hector J. Fre- 1 |H. McArdle, East Boston, Mass. Frank Miller. East Providence, R. L; Joseph P. O'Brien, Providence, R. I. Adolph F. Pohl."South Boston, Mass. Samuel G. Siskin, New Haven, Conn. Joseph L. Smith, Wakefield, Mass. Irving B. Snader, North Cambridge, Mass.; Cesar¢ Vagini, Hartford, Conn. Died of Disease. Edward Costello, Corporal rence, Mass. Wagoner Albert H. Gavigan, ton, Mass. Cook Lloyd F. Emerson, N. H. S| Private Samuel I ville, Mass. Law- Can- Lebanon, Murray, Whitins: Prisoner. Private Karl Hoffman, New Haven, Conn. TO ATTEMPT TO BREAK WORLD'S ALTITUDE RECORD New York, Oct. 22—An attempt to break the world’s altitude record of 21,000 feet for a two man airplane will be made by army fliers from Ha- zeehurst Field Saturday at an avia- tion carnival at Belmont Park, it was announced here tonight. The aviators, who will be equipped with oxqgen tanks, also will try to break the un- official record of 23,000 fect made re- cently at Chicago. Proceeds of the carnival will be used to purchase ath- letic equipment for army fliers. GEN. FOCH REQUESTS PRAYERS OF CHILDREN New York, Oct. 22.—James A. Fla- berty, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbu#, tonight appealed to the iembers of the order to call to the attention of thefr children Marshal Foch's request that Catholic children receive communion on his behalf and remember him and the cause he rep- 1esents in their prayers. The mar- shal's request was made thyough Mon- signor William Barnes, Cathol:c chap- of Oxford universty. who came to the Tnited Srates to altend Cardi- wal Gibbons' zolden iuhilae Saulnier, | Hobbs, | nette, Bellows Falls Falls, Vt.; Albert | % t i | | 3 | meet all requi; F Michael J. Aldi, Norwich,| “Th Congress Has Been Asked to Authorize a Second Three- Year Naval Building Pro- gram. ‘Washington, Oct. 22.—Congress has been asked by the navy deparument 1o authorize a second three year naval building programme to provide ten additional superdreadnaughts, six bat- ie cruisers and 140 smaller vessels at a cost of $600,000,000. This was dis- closed tonight by Secretary .Danfels after his appearance before the house naval committee to explain the appro- priation. This authorization is asked for the next fiscal year and is !a addition to | the 156 naval vessels comprising the first three year building programme authdrized in 1916 and the sreat num- ber of new destrovers'and other spe- ial types contracted for since the United States entersd the war. Work on the first three year programme was delayed by the war, but congress has required that a stari must be made on all the vessels before next July Including the $600,000,000 fcr the three vear programme Secretary Dan- fels said’ the total estimates of the department for ship construction, in- cluding armor and armament, zmount s vear to $972,000,000. Onlye$200.- §20.000 of the $600.900,000 will be made available next year for structural work on the three year programme. In ad- tion $372,090,000 is asked for com- pleting vessels alreadv authorized. new programme of 1 ves- said Secretary Daniels, “pre- scribes specific numbers of batileships and battle crui only, there being ten battleships asked for and four bat- te cruisers. As regards small ves- suls, although the total numbesr is to e 140, it is simply asked that they be of types already approved and in ex- istence, or of new types which may develop during the life of {he program, the details being left to ihe discreiion cf the navy department. “The new three year programme is a continuation of the policy adopted in 1916 of increasing the nay: d contemplates kts steady upbuildi d 'improvemen:. It is in line with the policy adopied by this government, nd which has met with the entire - proval of ihe American pecple, of I uilding up a navy strong enough (o ements. programme, if ed by as [ am confident it wiil De, will give us 15 capital ships that will be the équal of any afloat at (he time they are built. The battleships and battie cruisers authorized in the fi bree year programme will e unex- ciled by those of any othier navy, and he country may rest assured that, in the new construction authorized, our constructors will produce thé most powerful and effective of “The {mperative necessity ing out as rapidly as destroyers and othe: of turn- possible all the tvpes of craft ! needed in the war against the subma- rine—for t necessities of ariare for the time required us to Concentiate upon this class of construction—has the fear in some quarters that in 0 much necessary. wttention building of smaller crafi we me in looking out ror the g the capital ships th of a navy ulti- 1utely depends his the naval au- thorities have always had in The three vesr programme 1918 provided for ten x. battle cruiser: Now we as many more, to be built as formerly authorized are completed, and become® available. total expenditure authori this new programme, is $600. o Provision for the first year rd of this, $200,000,000. This on which the ties The apon i the emergency Iyes | { jship dent of cxpenditures from appropriations for new els to be built under war urgen- cy, which total 3140.000,000 and als of estimates for continuing and push- ing the old programme, the ewmergen- v construction of destrovers under way, etc “including the $600.000,000 for which uthorization is requested in the new thiree year peri tal estimotes of the department for aip construction, including armor and rmament, amourt this year to $9 90,000. The total amount 1 reco mend for appropriation next year I construction, that com- g vessels alread: ed and new vessels, is § PAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY DINES DOMIOIO DA GAMA X —Domioio Da imbassedor to United S zed the “master of South American plomacy and good will” at a farewell luncheon given in his honor here to- day by the Pan-American Society, on the occasion of his return to Brazil to assume the post of minister of foreign effairs. More than 200 prominent per- sons, including representatives of the army, navy and diplomatic corps, were guests at the luncheon, while John Bassett Moore, E. H. Gary and John Garrett, director general of the Pan Americin Union, were the principal spealers. rleti o Gama, CHIEF JUSTICE PRENTICE SICK WITH INFLUENZA Bridgeport, Comn., Oct. 22.—The session of the supreme court of errors scheduled to open her: today was postponed until Thursday because of the illness of Chief Justicc Prentice nfluenza. Both civil and criminal es of common pleas court and session of the superior court were postponed because of the epi- demic. CONNECTICUT’S SHOWING IN FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN Hartford, Conn., -Oct. 22.—Gavernor Holcomb today received the - official figures showing Connecticut’s part in the fourth Liberty loan. The state subscribed 144 per cent. of its allot- ments. The total in quotas was $206,- 830,700 and the total subscribed $297.- 412.850. The excess in the last loan was. more than $24,000,000, the quota being $66,346,000 and the subscriptions $10,446,000. EMINENT SURGEONS OF ALLIED NATIONS VISIT WHITE HOUSE Washington, Oct. 22—Surgeons of England, France and *Italy, who are Zucsts of the Clinical Conzress of the American College of Surzeons, were presente,l to President Wilson today e ghting craft. | d programme, the to- | ChangesinSurtaxes Mate in the House Decreases Rate on Incomes Below $100,000 — In« creases Rate on Incomes in Excess of That Amount. Washington. Oct. 22, — Surtaxes adopted by the house on individual net incomies below $100,000 would be lowered and those on incomes in ex- cess of that amount increased under amendments to the war revenue bill adopted today by the senate finance committee. A tax of 1 per cent. would be levied on incomes hetween $5,000 and $6.000, with an additional 1 per cent. surtax for each 32,000 jn excess of that amourt up to $100.000, when the rate would be 32 per cenf. A graduated scale is then fixed under which tax of 65 per cent. would be le ne tincomes exceeding $1,000,0 The change in income surtaxe: the second decided revision made in the house draft of the bill at today's session, the committée previously hav. ing voted to eliminate the alternative system of faxing war and excess profits in favor of a general rate of 80 per cent. on war profits and a reduced tax on excess profit The revision of income surtaxes, members of the committee said, will provide a more form rate, while | the reduction in revenus will amount to less than $25.000,000, As revised in senaie committee, comes of from $100.000 to $130,000 would pay a surtax of 52 per cent and those between $150.000 and $200,- 000 would be taxed 56 per cent. Irom 200,000 to $300 000 the rate would be 60 per cent.: $300,000 to $300.000, 63 per cent.: $500,000 to $1.000,000. 64 per cent., and above $1,000000, 65 per cent. Compared to in- the house rate. this would be an increase of 6 per cent. for incomes between $100.000 and $200,000; § per cent. for those between $200.000 and $300.000: 9 per cent. for those between 3$300,000 and $500.000, and 6 per cent. from that amount to one million. In order to protect smaill corpora- tions under the war profits schedule, amendment providing that in no case shall the tax “he more than 2 cent. of the amount of the nes in excess of $3.000 and not in excess of £20,000 plus S0 per cent. of the amount of the net income in excess of $20,000.” RED CROSS REPORT OF CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA Stockholm, Mond: The A. P.) - The las Rod Cross workers in Russ Stockholm today after a four day LY (rain from Petrograd. The party consists of Major Allen Wwrdwell, Captain J, W. Andrews and Dr. M tente prisoners at Moscovs trograd after the departure of the en- nte missions and relieved thc con dition of many unfortunates in R sian jails. Major Wardwell assistants * are * especially have food- supplieg sent to R prisoners and children who are public wards and aré now facing stacvation. 0 held the post at As Vice Consul Burri were both t Moscow when the Red Cro Norwegian legation liey wonl! > ofticials were fivst y and bate heen soners for neaily tvo mon They tzve undergone grea: privat Food conditions are rapidly growing worse In Petrograd and Moscow. Al though the Bolshevik press says that tae retirement of th rom th> Volga dist passible to obtain zrain from that region, no upblies are the iwo citie as yet, prodab anse the peasant organizations will release grain to the Soviet government. i SLIGHT ned at make it IMPROVEMENT IN Washington, Oct. 22.—A yrovement in the influenza over the country was indicate ports received today~ by the public heaith service, but in many places the epidemic apparently has vet to reach its crest. In the far west and on t jPacific coast the situation has not proved nearly as serious as it did in the east and south. ] Continued abatement of the epidemic in army camps was reported today to the office of the surgeon general of the army. * New cases during the 24 hours ending at noon today totalled 2 against- 3,007 the day hefore, while deaths decreased from 404 to 392, There was a Slight increase in the number of pneumonia cases. Army medical officers said influenza may now be said to be epidemic in only five camps. the others reporting !less than 50 new cases each daily. The total cases since the disease became epidemic number 292,770, with 1549 deaths. In the east and south generally con- ditions among the civilian population are rapidly improving, according to re- Ports to the public health service. | 50 MORE NEW YORK BUTCHERS CHARGED WITH PROFITEERING New York, Oct. 22.—Fifty more of the 234 New York hutchers chars with profiteerinz in the salo of lamd appeared today for before the federal food board. ferred to refund overcharges tribute $100 each to the Rel rather tlian have their stores for two weeks. Franz J. Michel, jto suspend busi asserting that v can where I profiteercd, T want CHANGES MADE IN THE PRGHIBITION STATE TICKET Hartford. Conn., Oct. 11—The secre- tary of state has Dbeen requested to remove from the prohibition state ticket the name of Lester C. Schriver, candidate for congress in the Second district, and substitute the name. of Arthur W. Chaffee of Middletown. William H. Heald of Stafford, can- didate for the state senate in the 35th district, and I, Leroy Harwood of New London, .in_ the 1$th’ district, have also requested that their names be T moved from the same ticket. CHARGED WITH THEFT closed o see it at the White House. Earlier in the day they visited Mount Vernon. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN GUATEMALA KiLLS 150 Panama, Oct. 22—There hive been severe eartqhuakes in Guatema'a and 130 persons are dead, according to re- yorts received here from Guatemal:. much property damage also has been caused, OF $50,000 WORTH OF WHISKEY Wterbury, Conn., Oct. 22— Three sa- loon . keepers and several others are held under $3.000 honds cach here in comnection with the theft of $50.000 ‘worth of wihiskey from cars on the tracks in the local freigint vards, where it is claimed the thieves used auto trucks which were hacked up L0 the cars. Jt is understond some of tha whiskey has been recovered. the committee late today inserted an|Anti-Trust Law and Pe- | scon e THE INFLUENZA SITUATION, Condensed fa‘iegréms ! _Sixty-seven alleged Bolsheviki sym- pathizers were arrested at Toronto. Five million pounds of corn meal a month is being consumed by the arm Production of soft coal for the week tons. St. Louis University seismograph recorded earth shocks 1,800 miles to] the south. The Senate will si continuously | until the Army Deciency bill has been passed. . An increase of 25 per cent in vas granted to Cleveland workers, American Ambassador Sharp plac- | ed a wreath at the foot of the statue | of the city of Lille. American trade with Canada July resulted in a balance for Dominion of $31,700,000. The Senate Finance Committee di cussed amendments to the revenue bill, but took no action. An_additional $120,000,000 was ask- | ed of Congress; for ship construction Dby_the Shippind Board. Total purchases of War Savings and Thrift Stamps in New York to date amount to $31,979,491. Licensed grain dealers must report on three months operations from Oct. 1, 1918, to Dec. 31, 1918. Add Italy and $100,000,000 to France were | wages garment . for the | Eighty-five thousand bags of sugar| were shipped from Cienfuegos, Cuba, during the week ended Oct. 5. | Shipments of .fresh .cured .meats from Chicago for the week ended Oct. | 19_amounted to 66108, 000 pounds. | The Irish steamer Dundalk was tor- pedoed last week in the Irish Sea. Of the crew of 30 only 13 were saved. Latest estimates of loss of life in Porto Rico earthquakes are 200 Property damage is placed at $5,000,~ | Wheat crop of Australia and New Zealand amounts to 124,000,000 bush- els, compared with 158,000,000 bush- els in 1917, Lieut. Eddie Rickenbacker, famous auto racer, was awarded tinguished service cros: planes to his_credit. Members. of the Committee have received He has 1% Senate Finance : 10 PAGES—74 COLUMNS ended Oct. 12 amounted to 12,321,000 ional credits of 200000000 to |, e evacuation of invaded terriiory | doubts as fo the genuinencss of the Rt . Lo { condition upon which the plea for an | Berlin. | fighting, apparently the issue is one'seded the kaiser and the war lords in | for the allied war council to determine [ | through President Wilson that General { 000. the dis- | ‘Frevpiing Belief in Washington is That the Evacuation of Invaded Territory by the German Armies, the Only Condition Upon Which the German Plea for an Armis- tice Will Be Considered, is Purely a Military Problem— The Note Will Be Delivered at 10 A. M. Today. ‘ ‘Washington, Oct. 22—The prevailing belief here tonight is thatany action President Wilson may take as a result of the new German note will await and iargely be guided by a decision of the supreem wer council in France. and peace negotiations was characters ized by him as a “decision,” contend that this- meant no further discussion of the issues involved would be tol- erated. The other view, held very generally in official circles, is that a D § 1 reply iSedesirable from every stand- Shrewd diplomatic - observers and | point, that it will be forthcoming after . some officials take this view. though |full consideration, and that it will d no intimation of his own attitude has|chiefly with the immediate military come from the president, because ad-|problems, leaving aside for the future mittedly the one question immediately t i au {such things as the German denials of at issue is a military problem=—that | cruelties and ruthless desiruction and the German armies as the only|self-proclaimed democratic regime at armistice even will be given considera- | tion. | matic exchanges may take, one offictal « The Germans now are evacuating | pointed out tonight after all there is | Belgium and northern Trance as rapid- | but one question, “Are the Germans Iy as they can move before'the sweep | whipped?” If they are whipped and of the allied and American soldiers |ready to surrender when attempts st and still maintain their organization. ! bargaining have failed, the surrender Since the government at ‘Berlin savs!will come quickly enough, as quickly | they want fo get out without further|as the men who say they have super- Whatever form any furthet diplo- power dare to let the truth sink home upon the German people. Some dipio- matic Teports support the theory that they are restrained from revealing the real situation abruptly and taking peace at any price only from fear of be|more than a political revolution. Notes approaching gradually a final capitulation serve to give the German public the news in broken doses, and at the same time to take every possible chance of finding a loophole in Ameri- —whether it shall be suggested Foch be applied to for ten or whether without further diplomatic parley the approach of a white flag {from the German lines shail jawaited. The official text of the German note reached the Swiss legation here by jcable early today, but it was not de- |livered at the state department be- | cause the entire day was spent at the numerous requests asking tax exemption for charitable donations. The Supreme Court dismissed the case of violation of the Sherman against the Interna- | tional Harvester Co. \ A motion of the Department of Jus- tice to reopen the case of the United Shoe Machinery Co. was denied by ithe Supreme Court. Plans for after the war reconstruc- tion, to be held in January. at Wash- ington, were announced by tihe Na- tional Popular Government l.eague. Public lands committee of the Sen- ate reported favorably the bill appro priating $1.000 000 to make surve of farms for returning soldi Resources of the 98 trust com- panies, 209 State banks and 63 priv- {ate bankers in New York State for {the period ended Sept 10 totaled $4. 112 659, 959, qiSsoretary Baker will distribute the ball Commission and players of Boston Red Sox for war fund: : Representatives -of .the .National Wheat Growers Association will asl President Wilsen to fix a minimum price .of $2.46 a bushel for wheat. Captain Edward Grant, former third baseman of the New York Giants, was killed in action while leading a unit to the aid of the famous “lost battalion.” A decree was issued by the Braz n government declaring every d a holiday for business and offic purposes until the epidemic of influe- a is_over. Dr. Joseph W. Walsh, aged 33, died {yesterday of pneumonia at Portland, Conn. He had practiced in Middle- town fer four years prior to coming tp Portland Demosthenes T. Timayenis, general consul of Greece for Boston and New Yongland for more than fifteen years, died Monday at Brookline, Mass. Announcement of the appointment the ister to the spiritual needs of Jewish soldiers and sailors with the Ameri- can fighting forces, was made by the Jewish Welfare Board at New York. The purchase by the government of Gould Island, in Narragansett B !was announced last night. The island was owned by Percy D. Haughton of | Boston. | With less than 200 now casas of in- finen: and 170 deaths reported dur- mg the last 24 hours, the heaith au- thorities of Baliimore are mere en- | couraged. | Employes of railroads under feders ] ibed not less than 3164, | 5 e Fourth Liberty loan | _Sick and wounded ‘landed in the | United States from the American ex { peditionary forces during the week ended October 1S, numbered 637, .the W Department yesterday announc- ed. | Dr. Leo Peterson, 31, president of the Chi_Set Chi Medicai Fraternity, died at New York yesterday of pneu- monia, following influenza. King George received a large depu- tation of inter-parliomentary deleg: les at Buckingham Palrce Monday. The deputation included th representatives, twenty-iw France, cight from Italy and one from Belgi L { The navy twin motor dirigible bal- loon, which started from Akron, Ohio, early vesterday landed ot naval air training station at Rockaway at 6.30 o'clock last night. Charles Andrews, former chief judae of the New York state court of ap- i peals, twice mayor of Svracuse and | longz its foremost citizen, Gied at Svra- cuge, N. Y. carly last mgli. He was 91 vears old. “he THREE DEATHS FROM EXPLOSION OF AMMONIA Smith, Ark Oct. lives and perhaps more are believed to have been lost, a score of persons were hurt and property damage aggre- ! gating $300.000 was caused today the explosion of a tank of ammoni in the basement of the buildinz of the Fort Smith Coffee company. The explosion was followed by fire which partly destroyed the building and an adjacent siruciure. | Men and girl emploves of the coffee company jumped from windows and climbed down fire escaves, but many ! were badly burned. The loss of life {will not be definitely. known until a icheck of employes is made. ALL AMERICAN DEAD IN FRANCE With the American Army Northwest of Verdun,- Oct. (By the A. P.) All the American dead in France will be taken home after the war, accord- ing to orders to the army chaplains. The grave registration bureau has been working with this in view. but nothing definite regarding the future disposition of the dead was known here until instructions came to the chaplains ‘from Washingtan, donated by the National Base- | of five additional chaplains to min- | four-story | ARE TO BE BROUGHT HOMEI can and allied harmony with the hope r of avoiding ultimately throwing the German nation upon the mercy of its 2 enemies. legation on the tedious task of de- ;coding the document and preparing {an English translation of the German {text. The translation was made with | ‘:ho g;l-s(ngst carehh,\' I‘Ye‘derick Oeder- | PARIS TEMPS' CRITICISM OF 1 lin, the Swiss charge, becayse there . 5 lare obscure phrases in the unofficial AN R L O Paris, Oct. 22.—In_discussing - the CGerman reply to President Wilson, the Temps says: Now more than .ever the decision must be with the military and naval chiefs of our alliance. To make the | version received vesterday by wire- less which may be cleared up by a | move accurate rendering of the Ger- man. When the charge's work was idone Secretary Lansing had lett h (T panan enpagement 'Was made |b 0% Rublic: hellevs Miaghi toe [ombrran cacranie vieids and to insinuate that peace R e et e it inteq | SOMINE along the pathway of liast ef- - ! it In itself was pointed!for( i an outrage to iruth ani am ili 1 t1o later as evidence that exchanges|cervice to the country. There is only | between London, Paris and Washing- ! to spare ‘French blood and ton have been proceeding since the to refuse the enemy until he arrival of the wireless version and that | capirnlates. A respite in the fighting pending word from the war council of | would give Ludendorff time in which {what the military situation demands|to yecower™ the president is in no hurry to know | The Temps criticizes ihe German |{ie exaet verbal differences beiween irote and points out that it rontaini the official and unofficial texts. Thered no word of apology for crimes Com-. ialso were reports th: any action|mitted. The note it says is composed {might wait upon 4“diplomatic confer- | of two parts.’ One part which i< Short, jence ahout to convene in one of :the|caimes. the need of the: general staff . = allied capitals, but this found no offi-|for q respite from fighting. Th-.other, j cial confirmation. which is verbose, answers fhe need ! The usual Tuesday cabinet meeting of the German government for sus- |was in session all afternoon and it |t»ining hove in Germany. {was assumed thai (he German note| In regard to the German demand occupied its attention. No member of | that arrangements for an armistice the cfficial would discuss | should be according to the power om | whether he was taken into the presi- |both sides of the field, the Temps { dent’s confidence. wonders what General Hoffman wou'd | Those in official. diplomatic and |have said about that before the Brest- | congressional cireles. who do not pre- |iitovsk negotiation. |tend to have heard anvthing from the| “What is' the good” it adds, “of: | White House on the subject, are con- | telling us the German regime tas hee | fidently asserting opinions that the|:adically transformed when th> reich- | Gen will draw an answer from the | stag has not deliberated on any of tiie it or that they will not. One|three replies to President Wilson, To group, recalling that the president's|say it is dark at midday deceives no- reply to the request for an armistice | body. e ’WOODEN SHIP YARDS 1 ARE TO BE ELIMINATED FRENCH DEPUTIES TELL 5 OF GERMAN ATROCITIES S Washington, Oct. 22—Because of | Faris, Oct. 22. — The chamber of | their inefficiency, from Tifteen to twen- | deputies todny enthusiastically wel- | ipyards nw building wood2n ships | comed Deputies Delory and Raghe- {for the Emergency Ileet Corporation ill not receive any additional con- tracts. In making this announcement { tonight Chairman Hurley of the ship- | ning board said there would be vo cur {tailment of the chipbuilding nrogram, {1le step being taken to save mater: labor and mone: As fast as the yards complete the ships now under construction (he workmen will be sent to other plants. which constantly are in need of ad- ditional labor, Mr. Huriey would not make public the names of the yards ror aid he indicate when the closing of them would bezin. The yards held to be ineficient have | failed to deliver contract ships within Ithe time or at the price specified in the contracts, Mr. Hurley sai bocm, of Lilie, returning te their seats after years hands of the Ger- “It is impossible to denounce all the German crimes, but the most abom- inable was the carrying off of wo- men and giris of 19 and 1§ by enemy soldiers, their enforced submission to medical examination and of their be- ng obliged to work under Franch ma- chine gun fire for the Germany army.” The chamber shouted its indignation. One member cricd: “We'il teach o children thas! We'll nev Then M. Delory resumed: - “The Lens plains are nothing but an immense area of ruins with not ome house intaci. There cannot be a Frenchman who does not wish, those culpable chastised.” GIVE FULL PUBLICITY AL Raglieboom ' told. how Gevman soldiers had insulted and violated TO CORRUPT . PRACTICES ACT| 5 R o, and - how. they forced Washington; Dol dis- 15" Cears ‘o children to work fer trict attorneys were directed foday by | foo ¢ Attorney General Gregory to give fuk Lublicity to the recent act .¢f con- gress intended to prevent corrupt prac- in senatorial anc congressional PRESIDENT DECORATES HIGH MILITARY QFFICERS v Vashingt ct. 22. —- Marshals ¢ clections, and to prepare to prosecute | Washington, Oct. 22. Vigorously any persons charged with|Foch, Joffre and Haig and Generals 5 violations. The wct provides @ fine of | Petain, Diaz, Pershing and Gillian, $1.600 or one year's impriconment Gr lLoth for conviction of using money or other material things of value to influence votes in congressional elec- tions. The department of justice, (hrough federal attorneys in several states, in investing reports that candidates for nominations as senators or represen- in recent primavies vioiited the chief of staff of were awarded the distinguished ser: { vice medal today by President Wilson, § Belgian army, acting as commander-in-chief “of the United States army. i General Pershing was flirected by i Secretary Baker to act as President 4 Wilson’s representative in presenting 1 the Jmedals to the military leaders’ of the allies and to express to them the bt: im expenditures by a candi- | high regard of the people ~of Vfll! ' date to $3,000. Sc far, it is said, little | United States and of the American etidence has been found warvanting |army for the distinguiched and patri- | { prosecutions otic service they have rendered in the 1 | — common cause. | General Tasker H. Bliss. former REALIZING KAISER WAS NOT CHOSEN BY DIVINE RIGHT Geneva, Oct. 22.—Peace must not be delayed & sinsle dav_on account of |to Gemeral Pershing. he Hohenzollerns if thev, are un ob- Stacle 10 it, declares the Volksfreund | GERMANS INVESTIGATING of- Karlsrule, which also is permitter| « CHARGES OF DEVASTATION | i of the disuppearancs of thel parig, Oct. 22 -The German propa jous, bel that the ¢mperptiganda service announces that a com e e bioare Tanwacht S mys [Misslon of neutral representatives of e Bcuiol p: R B; zone to the front to {hat everybody is now convineed the .\.;:fié:‘fe*‘:}f ED0e of ‘evhstatindtu aliles will not accord Germany o chean | gestruction without military _obied pesse if the zlory and power|qyuring the German retreat in Relziumy af Impe:'al Germany is the piic Raron Von Der Lanchen, the eivil 2ovs Gelal, DeORie: exghTeaan 0 ernor of Brussels, went with the com= In permittine such items o e i Giermany, the (Zflrn!.lu censor parently is. preparing public opinion {for coming events. | chief of staff and now assigned to the inter-allied war council, will represent the president in presenting the medal “HOBOES” RAISE FLAG yE FOR FELLOWS IN SERVICE New York, Oct. Members of the “Hoboes” ‘Union who assembled om the Bowery today for flagraising fn horor of 30,000 of their rel]oy < now ia {he service dug deep in their tattepsd packets and, at the exhortation.of Je MOBILIZING MEN TO FIGHT THE BOLSHEVIKI Archangzel, Monday,s Oct. 21—(By The A. P)—The reorganization of thy government is bringing auick results as regards mobilization of n:en to fight | Davis, their “kine.” bought $70 worih the Kolsheviki. The . classes for the|of war savings stamps to back five years beginning with wmen horn in ica’s fighting forces.. One 41893 have besn called to the colors. worker” alone purchased $20