Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 2, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag Norwich VOL. LIX—NO. 263 POPULATION 29,919 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918 12 PAGES—92 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS ADVERSITY 1S PURSUING ALL ARMIES OF THE: HUNS Everywhere in Italy the Austrians Are Being Defeated— Great Numbers Have Been Taken Prisoners and Allies Have Taken More Than 700 Guns—In Belgium the British, French and Americans Are Meeting With Mark- ed Success—On the Southern Part of the Front in France the Allies Are Driving Northward Over Wide Fronts—Surrender of Turkey is Absolute. (By The Associated Press.) From the mountain regions of north- ern Italy to the plain of Venetia and on salient sectors in Belgium and France the armies of - the Teutonic allies are being violently attecked by troops of the entente. In Italy, except on several sectors in the hill country, the enemy is fast being_overwhelmed; in both Belgium | and France additional splendid gains have been reeordetl in favor of the entente, in the achievement of which men from the United States took a| goodly part. In Serbia the Austrians and - Ger- mans are fast making their way out of he little kingdom, many of them al- ready having crossed the Danube. French and Serbian cavalry have reached Beigrade, from where a fast urning movement westward along the | Save river is likely to work havoc| with those of the enemy forces com- ing northward in western Serbia and those who are &truggling northward through Albania So far as Turkey is concerned, her capitulation is an abject one, and the 'nnnman no longer is to prove a factor in the world war holds. On the plains the retrograde move- ment of the enemy eastward toward the Tagliamento river virtually is 2 complete rout, violently attacking with machine guns the throngs of the enemy hurryigg eastward: with the cavalry cutting to. pieces the stragglers, and the infantry and machine gunners taking a heavy toll in men Kkilled or wounded. Great numbers of the Austro-Hun- garians still continue to Le winnowed back of the line to the prison cages. Large quantities of stores still are | falling into the hands of the entente forces and numerous additional towns are being liberated. More than 700 | suns already have been added to the allies. In Belgium along the Scheldt from Berchem to Gavere. King Albert’s men have pressed forward in the general direction of Ghent and at last accounts were standing on the western side of the canal which the Germans had hoped. before the concentrated attack was begun against them some time {ago, would prove a strong point in | their northern defensive system. Although the new smashes of the| To the south, below Valenciennes, British, French and Americans in Bel- | English and Canac troops have zium and France have been markedly | driven the German line farther east- successful in the carrying out of the|ward over a front of six miles, i deneral program of riddinz France |ing exceptionally heavy casualties and Belgian soil of the invaders, it|the enemy and drawing their line al- still is the Ttalian theatre on which the|most to the outskirts of southern eyes of the world are centered. In-| Valenciennes. Several thousand p ternal strife in Germany and Austria- |oners were taken in the enterpris Hungary and continued pleadings from| On the southern part of the front the dual monarchy for an armistice |French and American troops are driv and a cessation of hostilitles have re- | ing northward over wide fronts, clear- | quiner s, T o By cetved scant notice, when compared |ing the enemy from the territory which | © (soune Fitnreran with the impression that the wonder- | it is essential to hold if his line from | [ airanes B, et ful drive of the Ttalians and their allies | Belgium to the Meues is to be retained | \ifitord. Conn i agagnet the Auntro-Hungarians has|intact. Splendid progress has been| ppivates - Clifford ..H. .. Arnold made upon the world at large. made in the first stages of t%e battle, | wateriawn Anton De Everywhere the enemy is being de-iand seemingly the great wooded | gunetin Lridgepart, Connr George feated in Italy. In the Alpine region, [massif north of Grandpre. a continua- |\ afoprison. Dittsfield, Mass.: James where the natural barriers had acted | tion of the Argonme forest, is lKely | puimer 1 awrence. Masss Johm T as bastions of defense, the enemy line to be enveloped soon. leaving to the}miynn. New Haven, Conn.; Herbert has heen broken at salient points and | alliex only comparatively sthrong nat- |y Jyars. Claremont, Mass: Thomas the foe compelled to seek safety injural barriers to an advance north-|w Hogan Winsted. Conn.: Leroy C. PELT W BRSNS - IRERn. dhohg - wa, Hutchinson, Reading, Mass.; Maurice = E pE oo eany —.|C. Hynes, Wales, Mass.: Richard S. L Jeeves, Newton Lower Falls Mass.; HEAVY ARTILLERY TEESIDENT WILSON IN Lawrence T. Lindstrom, Watertown, ACTION BY AMERICANC| COMMUNICATION WITH HOUSE|Mass; Phillip C. Morency, New Bed- With the American Army Northwest| Washington, Nov. L—Fresident Wil- [ ford, Mass.; Bugene C. Saxe Brook- of Verdun. Nov. 1, 8 p. m.-—(By The|-on today continued the frequent ex- |line Mass.: Demetrius N. Theodore, A P)—The first American army |changes of communications with Col-|Peabody, Mass. nashed forward for matorial gains|onel K. M. House which have been Missing in Action. long the enemy front today. In con- | proceeding steadily sinso the special| Pprivate Willlam B. White, itch= junction with the Frenca army on its representative of the American gov- the Americans resumcd in force ernment, reacted France a week he operntion begun Sentember 26, with Admiral Willilam & Benson Preceded by the heaviest artiliery|ranking officer of the nuvy. Late in preparation vet nsed by the Ameri-|the day the president wi'ked over to cars, the infantry 5.20 o'clock went over the top the state, war and navy building from this morning all along the White House for a conference with the line. By & o'clock the froops had |Secretary Baker. iaken Chamrigneulle, =. Georgres,| Thus far ro inkling has been giv- lLandres et St Georges, and the Lan|en here as tc the procaedmgs of the @'Huy farm and 2,500 prisoners. Supreme War Council. which conven- There was opposition orly at the|ed today, to arrange the terms of an outset. This was carried out by brisk [armistice for Germany und Austria nachine gun fire for from twenty to|or of the ex~hanges which took place thirty minutes, when it cd off and|at Paris between representatives of enabled the troops to advance without | the Entente nations znd Colonel 4 ehting. House before the council’s sessions be- Later stiff opposition developed in|gan he Bois des Loges and continued for| There was no confirmation in <ome time, but before noon all the ob- | Washington today of repor jectives along the enti ront had | Burope that General Diez, 1h been gained. commanderinchief, had received from The advanece of the Americans in-|the Supreme War Councili the terms reses materially the f of an armistice he was authorized to firing at _the Mezieres, offer to the Austrian cominander in the medy and Longzuyon railread commu- nication, and now och nearer direct ted with regularity field. However. in many quarters the report, if not correct. was rezerded as being only shghtly in advance of the facts. The Americans never before had so| Such official information as the state much artillery in action as today. Al- | department had today from what once hough the artillery preparation was|had been the vast dial empire indicat- of only two hours' duration, the con-|ed that very little remzined of that centrated rain of missiles fairly | structure owing to the soparation of smothered the Germans the Hungarian Bohemians and Jugo- The enemy had in line this morning hetwsen the Meuse and the Bour- zone Wood nine divisions. including <ome of his best men. Against him the Americans threw in a suncrior number of fresh troops, all rested men, in good <pirits and ready for a fight that remnan‘ of a once mighty em- pire grave disorders were reported and its total collapse was believed to be imminent. ALLIED FLEET SURE TO BATTLE WITH BLACK SEA FLEET London, Nov. 1.—The allied fleet, s believed, is sure to come to grips with the old Russian fleet in the Black Sea. if the war continues a few weeks longer. There is every reason to be- lieve that the Germans bave put this fleet in good order. It consists of seven pre-dreadnoughts, two cruisers and twelve submarines, besides at least 26 other types of war craft. The encmy has the advantage of three good bases in the Black Seg—Odessa, Sebastopol and Nikolaiev—but it is likely that they are short of ammuni- tion. At Nikolaiey four cruisers are be- ing built. One of them is nearly com- pleted. TWO SERVICE AVIATORS PICKED UP AT SEA An Aftantiz Port, Nov. :.—Word was received here tonight that two service aviators who had been adrift in their helpless machine for a day and a half ha€ been picked up by Captain €. Paskilles of New iledford. a lobster fisherman. Both aviators w in a badly exhausted condition. They were turned over to a patrol vessel and neither their names nor any details of their experience could be learned here. LEAFLETS DISCLOSE GERMAN IGNORANCE OF AMERICANISM Berne, Nov. 1.—Leaflets were show- cred over Berne recently addressed to the American soldiers on the French line. The headlines bore tarce words, “Never say die.” The body of the leaf- Jets advised the Americans never to die for foreign countries and to re- turn beme. It is presumed the leafiets were dropped by a German propaganda air- plane. VERSAILLES CONFERENCE AGREES ON ARMISTICE London, Nov. 2—The Versailles con- ference finally agred late yesterday on the armistice terms governing the maritime powers of the central em- pires. The proposals contain six points which are believed to throw every safeguard around the German fleet. LANCASTER, PA, PLACED UNDER QUARANTINE Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 1—As a re- sult of a controversy between author- ities at Lancaster and the acting state health comm Wsioner over the refusal of the city to obey an order keeping the saloons closed becauss of the in- fluenza_epidemic, the commissioner to- night declared that ecity to be under quarantine. All railroad and street companies and other common carriers were directed to discontinue carrying passengers to or from the city except federal and state officials on official cial business. The quarantine is to re- main until further noticc. PRESIDENT ADVOCATES THE ELECTION OF O'SHAUNNESSY Providence, R. I, Nov. 1.—Fresi- dent Wilson tonight teiegraphed to Former Governor Higgins of Rhode Island advocating the election of Con- gressman O'Shaunneeey, the democr- tic candidate for the United States senate, whose opponent is the pres- ent United States Senator Colt. Sen: tor Colt is just completing his first term in the senate and was a federal judge for thirty years prior to his election. AUSTRIAN FLEET HAS e SURRENDERED TO SLAVS| SERBIAN CAVALRY AT London, Nov. 1, 6.10 p. m—The Aus- OUTSKIRTS OF BELGRADE trimn fiect at Pola, the naval base on| Saloniki Nov. 1—French and Ser- the Adriatic Sea, has surrendered to|bian cavalry have reached the outer the southern Slav council, according|defences of Belgrade, capiial of Ser- 10 & despateh received by the Central|bia, says a French official communi- N Agency cation issued this evenin EX-PREMIER TISZA SHOT BY SOLDIER IN BUDAPEST Copenhagen, Nov. 1—Count Tisza, the former Hungarian premier, has Leen killed by a soldier, according to Budapest telegram today. The count fell victim to & reveiver shot while he was out walking. s el | store of other trophies taken by the | Slavs from tke parent stste. Even in| | Privates—Walter |field, Mass.; Walter E. Farrar, Lisbon with allied airplanes ALLIED AIR RAID ON London, Nov. 1.—It is ol mitted in the German capital® accord- Exchange Telegraph company by way of Amsterdam, that serious damage has been done in the city of Heidel- berg, in Baden, by an allied air raid. There were some casualties. 475 NAMES IN TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS ‘Washington, Nov. 1—The follow- ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces: ;Mnunded (degree undetermined) 157 Wounded (Degree Undetermined). Sergeant James H. Drummond, Boston, Mass. Corporals — Phillip A. Burrage, Weston, Mass.; Thomas E. Sheehan, John Street, Jr., Salem, Mass.; Law- rence J .Sullivan, Hartford, Conn. H. Bishop, Spring- Falls, Franklin A. Hart, New Harry W. Judd, Plain- Warren . Rogers North Grafton, Mass.; Samuel Sigal, Hart- ford, Conn.; Harold A.McAleer, Gard- ; Jame Mass.; Frank Tierne: Haven, Conn.; Fred J. Yeddo, Spring- field, Mass. field, Conn. FRIDAY -AFTERNOON'S LIST Died of wounds 6: died of airplane accident 1; died of disease 1T; ‘wounded severs 113; ‘wounded slightly 150; m! g in action 31 New ngland men are: Died of Wouds. Privates—Charles Cox, M N. H.; Harold H Emerson, mond,, Maine. Died of Disease. ler Percy E. Whitaker, anchester, Rich B Mass, Wounded Severely in Action. D. Wheatley, Beverly, Lieutenant George North Abington, Mass. Corporal Thomas Pawline, Glaston- { bury, Mass. | Privates—Henry J. Bosse, Lisbon, aine; Frank P. Ferry. Fall Rlver, Mauss. John Thuszez, Chicopee, Mass. | Wounded Siightly. aptain Charles T. Senay, New Lon- don, Conn. . burg, Mass SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE TO ADJOURN UNTIL NOV. 8 Washington, Nov 1.—The senate fi- nance committee today decided to con- tinue work on the war revenue bill to- morrow and then adjourn until Nov- ember § with a view to fmamy re- porting the re-drafted measure to the senate about November 12 The committec today adopted an amendment providing that luxuries and semi-luxuries exported (o other coun- tries shall not be subject to the new excise taxes of from five to twenty per cent. This exemption was espec- ially requested by automolile manu- facturers Merchandise listed in t scetion for which manufac JcHion foF. which Tapil excise tax vring con- before Sept. the date of the introduction of the ionse bill, will not be subject, the senate committea decided, o the ta: provigion under another amendmen provided. Manufacturers requested this mption because many their contracts, including those with the government, were made without con- templation of the new taxes, Provision was also made by the committee for relief of holders of dis ti'led spirits who may be unable to remove from bonded warekouses the stocks they own before the proposed war time prohibition law goes into ef- fect next July 1 cided to release distilled maining in warehouses on that date from the payment of the usual bond required and let the mremain in the warehouse upon payment of the nomi- nal fee. SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION IN BUDAPEST IS REPORTED Copenhagen, Nov. 1--A successful revolution has taken place in Buda- pest, and the Hungarian national council has taken over the govern- ment, according to a message sent by Count Michael Karolyi to the Berlin Tageblatt The message from Count Karolyi, who is head of the Hungarian inde- pendent party, reads: “Revolution in Budapest. and na- tional council took over government. Military and police acknowledge na- tional council completely. Inhabitants rejoicing. (Signed) “KAROLYI, “President the National Council.” TAFT URGES ELECTION OF REPUBLICANS TO CONGRESS Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 1.—Former President Taft urzed New Hampshire voters in a speech here tonight to elect republicans to congress so that President Wilson would be held to an unconditional surrender by Germany and not to be allowed to make a peace by negotiation. Mr. Taft objected to the president's appeal for the election of democratic candidates for congress on the as- sumption that a democratic majority in both houses would make the presi- dent the unembarrassed spokesman m affairs at home and abroad. TROLLEYMEN VOTE TO ACCEPT WAGE INCREASE New Haven, Conn.. Nov. 1—The trolleymen employed by the Connecti- cut company have accepted the wage increase of five cents an*hour award- ed recently by the company, it was announced tonight by Fugh J. Gart- land, Jr, of the trolileymen's union. The men voted last Wednesday throughout the state and the proposi- tion was carried by a large majority. The present contract had until next June to run, but the company made the proposal for an liate raise in compensation as received of a peti- tion submitted by the trolleymen. ing to a despatch from Berlin to the| at Perth Amboy Police and State Military Re- serves Are Patrolling the Streets—One Man Was Killed. Perth Amboy, N. J, Nov. 1.—Police 2nd New Jersey state military reserves ‘were patroling the streets here tonight to prevent repetition of a riot which broke out today between two factions of the Hungarian population. One man was Killed and one wounded. The trouble started when the congreza- tion of the Church of Our Lad® of Hungary left the church and demaid- ed that Louis Scipo rgmo—e from the window of his savings batk a weekly newspaper containing an attack upon their_pastor, the Rev, Francls Gross. On_ Scipo's ‘refusal, the congregation smashed th bank windows, wrecked the furniture and attacked the banker. Scipo, in self protectipn as he told the police, fired seven shots in the growd, unding iwo men one of whom iater ed. The banker surrendered to ths police and swore out warrants charg- ing the clergyman with inciting riot. They were held for grand ju ction. The Rev. Mr, Gross previouslty had Ileen arrested’ charged by Scipo and jthe editor of the newsnaper with ai- tempted assault. i AMERICANS TO ACQUIRE GERMAN WOOLEN MILLS New York, Nov. L—Arncuncement thay the great German woalen mills of New edrsey and other larze ma facturies throughout the country, with an aggregate value of more than $200,- 000,000, will be sold within the next two months to Americans was the answer today of A. Mitcheli Palmer, ien property custodian, lo recent Speedy Prosecution of Army | Cificers Who Are Accused of Irregu-, larities in the Hughes Re-| port of Investigation of Air- craft Production. ! Washington, Nov. 1.—Prosecution of | the three army officers held by Charles E. Hughes in his report on the aircraft investigation to oe guiliy of dealing with_corporations in which they were financially interested is to be started without delay, it was said today at the department of justice. The cases may be laid before a federal grand jury in Washington. The_officers are Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Vincent, former vice president of | the Packard Motor Car company: Lieutenant Colonel Georse W. Mixter, a stockholder in the Curtiss Airplane and Motor corporation, and Lieutenant Samuel B. Vrooman, Jr.. a stockholder in the S. B. Vrooman company of Philadelphiz. 1f substantiated, the charges made against the officers| would involve imprisonment of not| more than two years and fine of mot more than $2,000. Reports that other army officers commissioned since the nation entered the war have been dealing with firms in which they have a financial interest are being investigated by agents of | the department of justice. It was un-| { derstood that the nurmber of officers | under investigation was small. Secretary Baker said today that he t completed his study of report and therefore was to announce his action Mr. Hughe: not _prepared upon the recommendations of Mr. Hughes that Colonel E. A. Deeds, at- tached to the bureau of military aero- | nautics, be brought to courtmartial| for the alleged supplying of confiden- : eds where it can be invariably traced to the ahead is the one who is g foi the business th No mercl afforded by advertising and vicinity there js no medium waich rendered by the trial wili show i letin’s columns, all for 12 cents i week: i Bulletin Il saturday, October 26...... 1§ Monday, October 28...... 1§ Tuesday, October 29...... I} Wednesday, October 30...... |§ Thursday, October 31.. i] Friday, November 1.. | H Totals ! note from the German _sovernment protesting against disposition of form- er Teuton owned interests i the Unit- ed States. German property seized in this coun- y totals $800,000,000 nd soon will reach $1,000,000,000. as ccmpared with $14,000,000 worth of American inter- ests taken over in German, Mr. Pal- mer said. In line with the govern- ment's policy of wiping out all the “outposts kultur” in the United States, led, the former German be sold oniy to per- sons who can satisfy the advisory committee of the Alien Property Office of their Americanism. This commit- tee. headed by Otto T. Bannard of New York. will decide whether or not the prices offered are fair. Chief of the manufactories to be placed upon the auction biock are the Passaic, N. .. Woolen Miils, valued at $50,000,000, principal ameng them the great Botany Worsted Mills _\\‘hosr‘ ap- praisal at $14,000,000 has just been completed. The Bayer Company, one { the couniry’s leading makers of rmaceutic products, and the en Chemical Company, a close al of the Bayer concern in size, al- will be sold. Most of ha auctions, s annornced, will take place at though « few will be held ew York. nts fo b it the_plan| in P dates with_the ayer Com- 3; Hey- disposed of of saie. inciude;, pany, New York, December den” Chemical Works, Garfield. N. J Decémber 11: New Brunswick Chemi- cal Company, New Brunswick, N. J,, December 18- Bosh Magneto Company, Springfield, Mass., November n’ ternational Textiles, Inc. Bridgeport, Conn., December 11; Stollwerck Com- pany, Inc. (Chocolate maisers), Stam- ford, Conn., December 13: Schutte and Koerting Company (machinery), Phil- adelphia, December 13; Dr. Jaeger anitary and Woolen Svstem Com- pany. New York, Decemher 14, The Heyden Chemical Works, Mr. Palmer deciared, figured prominently in the schemes early in the European war of Hugo Schmidt, agent in this country of th: Deutsche Bamk of Ber- lin, to corner the carboiic acid mar- ket and thus prevent the ailies from obtaining from America the by-pro- duct, picric acid, -essential to manu- facture of high explosives. he Eosch Magneto Company was found by the custodian to be 100 per cent. German owned, while the Schutte and Kerting company, listed as the property of Mrs. adelbert Fischer, of Philadelphia, actually was owned by her father, Ernest Koerting, the “Carnezic of German NEW YORK WAITERS URGED TO REMAIN CN STRIKE New York, Nov. 1.—Despite the fact that most of their places have been filled by women. 1500 striking waiters from the McAlpin. Walidorf-Astoria and Claridge hotels werc urged by strike leaders today to held out until election night. Then, it w: predict- ed, the hotel managements will cap- itulate in order to handle the unusual heavy business. It was announced that ‘wo smaller hotels which were threatened with strikes, have granted tho'demands of the waiters for a new wag> scale, ef- fective Monday. SAILORS AT AUSTRIAN SEAPORT HAVE MUTINEED Copenhagen, Nov. 1.—According to n rcports, sailors at Fola, strian seaport, have. mutined and seized the warships there. A despatch from Rome (o the Paris Temps under date of October 27 said that the Aus:rian fleet hal been hasti- iv concentrated at Fiume A few ves- sels remained at Pola thé despatch added, but all the ships which were at Cattaro had left that port. | The Successful Merchant Advertises | Often times surprise is expressed at the fact nother just manages to get along. tributed to new blood in the one case and old blood in the other. hut ving publicity to ough advertsing. aat can afford to neglect if you are doing business in Norwich or advertising columns of In the past week the following matter has appeared in The Bul- Telegraph | | | that B some it is at one merchant I i fact that the one his bu who is siness by pushing reaching s which are the opportunit. can give vou the The service which is Bulletin as an hosest Local 125 118 101 118 116 88 General Total 430 183 331 320 | 362 = | 95 78 98 94 9 tial war information to'! in Dayton, | department former business associat Ohio. Requests for an inquiry b; the war| department into aircraft a rs was made some months ago by Major Gen- eral George O. Squier, Colonel Deeds and other officers, but Secretary Baker held it in abeyance until the inves gation by Mr. Hughes and the s committee has heen completed Baker did not indicate today when the department inquiry would be started, | but it was regarded as almost certain that the officers’ request would be granted. | Further investigation into conditions in the spruce producing section of the northwest. as recommended by M Hughes, is to be undertaken by gov j ernment agents, it was said today. LIBERTY LOAN TOTAL $6,866,416,300 WITH 21,000000 SUBSCRIBERS Washington, Nov. 1—Despite peace talk and influenza, American citizens have responded for a fourth time to| the government’s appeal for war loans with more than was asked. Total sub- scriptions of $6866,416,200 from more | than 21,000,000 individuals is the record | of the fourth Liberty loan as an-! nounced by the treasury, based on| careful estimates by the twelve fed-| eral reserve banks. The entire $500.-| 000,000 oversubscription will be accept- ed and applied to reducing the size of | the fifth loan, to be offered in the spring. Final figures may send the fourth loan total even higher owing to long delay by banks in tabulating their pledges. Reserve banks were| instructed by the treasury to report conservative estimates of their sales| and subscribers, making them low | rather than too high. Ior this reason some revision of the totals will be! made within a week or ten days. All districts _reported oversubscriptions, ranging from 26 per cent. for Boston | to a little less than & per cent. for San Francisco. The aggregate oversub- scription was 14.44 per cent MRS. BESSIE MAY SKEELS PLEADED NOT GUILTY MURDER Lawrence, Mass,, Nov. 1.—Mrs. Bes- sie May Skeels pleaded not guilty to- day to indictments charging her with the murder of Miss Florence W. Gay of Andover, a teacher at Abbot acad- emy, and with larceny from Miss Gay's estate. Mrs. Skeels, who is a! nurse, is accused of having adminis- | tered poison while attending Miss Gay professionally. i After the arraignment, counsel for | Mrs. Skeels flled a motion for a trial earlier than Feb. 24, the date set by| the court. The motion was taken un- der advisement. Since her arrest on Aug. 26, Mrs. Skeels has been ill in a hospital here. | Her: counsel today moved that she be | sent-back to the hospital pending trial | but the couri directed that she be| committed to jail | NO TRAFFIC BETWEEMN o AUSRIA AND GERMANY “msterdam, Nov. 1. Two trains carrying oil to Germany have been seized by Czech troops. Ail trains car- rying food to Vienna -and io Germany also have been held up. The Weser Gazette says all pas- sengers and merchandise traffic be- tween Austria and Germany stopped on Wednesday. BODY FOUND FLOATING IN CONNECTICUT RIVER Thompsonville, Conn,, Nov. 1. — The body of George S. Watters, 51, a grocer of Springfield, Mass., was found floating in the Conmecticut river near here_today. The body was discovered by Sprinzfield police who were curis- ing on the river in search of bodies of several persons reported missing. Wai- ters had heen missing since Oet. 15. | ments expected in a few ia i Central [ fluenza. jadopted the conservation recommenda- Condensed Telegrams Last week output of flour at Minne- apolis was 385271 barrels. An_expenditure of $34,000,000 .for meats for the army was authorized. An_additional credit of $3,500,000 was granted to Belgium by the Tre: ury. 5 War, Department authorized work | on six new buildings .to cost $2,356,- | 598, Sixty Americans in Tokio regis- tered for the draft and in_Yokohama. Telegraphic communications Madagascar and terrupted. Purchase of War Saving and Thrift Stamps in New York to date amounts to $32,723, 029, Britain, France and Italy are plac- ingy large contracts for rolling stock in_the United States. Fuel Administrator Garfield increase to 6 regstered with La Reunion are in- an- nounces wage anthracite miners averaging $1 a day. Standard Co., of New York raised the of refined oil, for export, 19%. Shipping Board estimates that only tiree months will be required to bring home American troops. Canadian imports for the 12 months | ending Septembgr amount to $897,- | 128,000, exports $1 363,749,000, ! It is reported in Christinia that the | aiser is buying an estate at Molde, | on the west coast of Norway. price W i Georgia Bay ports are cleaned up | and ready for the heavy g in move- | weeks. _ Canadian Victory Loan is progress- ing. There was $52,600,000 sub- scribed in the first two and a half Nine cars, one loaded with chlorine | gas, were wrecked on the New York | near Chelsea-on-Hudson. | Exports of the United States for September amounted to imports amounted to $262,257,387. Announcement was made in Bar- celena that Ezra bin Abbas, heir to the Khedive of Esypt died of in- Retail shoe dealers of the country have sent in pledges which will bind | them to the schedule recently adopt- | ed. Six of the crew of 29 of the Cuban steamer Chappara, sunk by a mine off Barnegat, N. J., Sunda are still missing. Licut.-Gov. Edward Schoeneck was sworn into military service and oj dered to report at Camp Zachary ‘Taylor, Ky., November Deliveries of Fourth Liberty bonds of smaller denom: banks by ihe Treasury will begin Monday Overseas demand for gasoline and | kerosene will have precedence over | all domestic requirements by order of the Fuel Administrator. Sinking of a German submarine in | the Acgean Sea by a Greek merchant | ship wis reported o the Greek Lega- tien at Washington. Loan nations to the Department John Ernest Bach, of New York,! moked for S0 » ate and drank s much as he d, but never worried. He is dead aged 104 years. Fire broke out in a Fort Porter| hospital hospital building, Buffalo. | The hospital was filled with wounded | and shell-shocked soldiers. All were | removed. Influenza and a shortage of, cars! caused a drop of 63232 ions of coai! | total output of coal and coke was | in the Uniontown, Pa. region. The 686 151 tons. 1 The annual convention of the Maine Woman's Christian Temper- | ance Union which was to have 2en | held this month at Rockland, will be . held at Waterville on December 41 and 5 John Parkinson, previous to his retirement from active business in| 1914, senior member of a Boston | |banking house, died at his summer| home at Buzzards Ba British organizations formed to promote a league of nations favor | immediate toward such a league by ns fighting Germany. | The city of Fiune has been abandon- ed by the Austrian authorities to the Broacian troops. 1 Announcement is made here that Tzra Bin Abbas, heir apparent of Ahmed Faud Pasha, kedhive of | Egypt, died of influenza on Monday. ! The national executive sassion of the Women's Foreign Mi n So- ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Cleveland, December 5 to 10 | An appeal to munition workers not to slow up in their work as a result | of peace falk was issued by Major eneral Williams, chief of ordnance. PRE-ELECT!ON REPORTS OF CAMPAIGN EXPENSES Washington, Nov. 1. — Final pre- election repurts of campaign expen: es were mad- to the clerk of the house of representatives today by the mittees. The republican® organization had total expenditures of with contributions of $673S15 and the Demoeratic committee disbursed $450, 459 and received $49 Additional expenditures by the re- publican committee since it last re- port fotalled $184,509, while supple- mental coniributions amounted to $184470. The democratic committee reported an additional exnense of $193,000 and ne¥ contri’utions of $86,381. The National Woman's larty also reported to the clerk of the house to- day an expenditure of 52 08. for w men campaigners sent from Wi ton to New Jersey, New Idals, Wyoming, Orezon Kan shing- Hampshire, Nevada and COAL CONSERVED BY INDUSTRIAL PLANTS Washington, Nov. 1.—Three and a hal fmillion tons of coal have been saved in, the past six months by in- dustrial power plants which have tions of the fuel administration., A| national saving of twenty-five milljon | tons annually i universal adoption of the recommendations, the | fuel administration today estimated. | Some plants reported to the fuel| administration a saving of coal amounting to as high as 25 per cent., while the average saving was reported | as from 10 to 15 per ceni. The largest savings have been in Massachuseits, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ilinois, New York, Missouri, Michigan, Minne- sota and Wisconsin DEVENS MEN PROUD OF LIBERTY LOAN RECORD Ayer. Mas ov. 1—Oficers and men af Camp Devens wore elated to- day when complete Liberty Loan fig- ures showed that this contonment ranked second with subscriptions of $1,257,350. The Twelfth Division sta- tioned here was topped only by Camp Lee with subscriptions of $1,614950 but it was nointed out' that Camyp Lec has 70,000 troops, whila Devens has only 0,000. The largest individual subscription st Camp Devens was|j £30,000 while one officer alone at Camp | Probably Double That Number Injured When a Five-Car MORE THAN 100 KILLED ON BRODKLYN RAPID TRANSIT Train Jumped the Track and Struck a Sidewall in the Malbone Street “Tunnel” on the Brighton Beach Line—Tragedy Occurred on the First Day of a Strike Called by the Motormen—More Than 100 Bodies Have Been Recovered. J charred beyond recognition and only a few of them have been identified late tanight. The walls of the cars were crushed in as the train sideswiped the tunnel. wall and many of the passengers were ground to death’ against the concrete. The rescuers who arrived first found women and girls with their arms. around each other pinned beneath seats that were torn and broken and partly burned. In the first car pas- sengers were pinned against the roof and against the walls. Some of them had been pierced with svlinters of wood, while others had been mortally wounded by the broken glass. Members of the Women’s Motor corps of America, who responded with their cars to calls for help, went into the tunnel to comfort and succor New' York, Nov. 1.—More than 100 bodies had been removed late tonight sjrom what is known as the Malbone street “tunnel” on the Brighton Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, where a five-car train run- ning at high speed jumped the uack on a curve and struck the sidewall with such terrific force that the first car was demolished and the others “buckled” until they were jammed against the roof of the tunnel. The i ich carried nearly 900 pas- was in charge of a “green” motorman. The tragedy marked the a strike called by the first da company of motormen to enforce the reinstatement of 20 dischargea members of the irotherhood of lLocomotive Engimee: ordered by the National War Labor £ men, women and children who were Board alive and conscious but pinned down Officials of the company professed | by the wreckage so they could not be three hours after the accident to have | removed. Many of the passengers died no definite information as to its cause, b in the arms of the young women who They said no reports bad been made y g ) had come to aid them. 1 them by members of the wain| Passengers declared that the train crew. .| was run at terrific speed all the way District Attorney Lewis' of Kings|to the tunnel after Brooklyn bridge county declared all the officials of the |had been passed. Women and chil- Erooklyn Rapid Transit Company and | dren were frightened and vowed they every ‘person connected in any Way|would get ouf, but the crush in the with the accident had been ordered | train was o great they could not rlaced under arrest. e asserted the |reach the doors. company was withholding the name of | Pregident Williams of the B. R. T. the motorman. It was reported, how- | denied late tonight that the motor- ever, that the man in charge of the|man in charge of the . train was a | train ofrmerly was employed as a “green” hand. He declared he was a et i motor switchman whose duty it had ? after the crasn the|heen to rup trains in and out of yards wrecked cars burst mnto fame, #Gding | und that he must. of necessity, have to the terror ol those who had cs-|peen familiar with thei roperation. He caped injury and increasing the peril|diq not denmy that he had. taken the of ihose pinned in the wreckage. ~ |place of a striker, but insisted that he iPolice reserves from A dozen st-{wag not a train despatcher. tions were rushed ‘o the scene of the | The .public service commission call accident and they immediately sent In | og\ Mr. Williams and L, (. Griffin for all the ambulances in Broo 1 N i 2 | assistant grand chief of the Brother- vn while Manhattan hospitals were [ hecat®ne Fene chiel of the Brothets Ked for assictance. The fire debart- | conference in an effort &0 seitie’ fha ORI, (O T ald the | girike, The members of the union infured and remove the dead. e (| Fere in executive session late tonig et s petarded Ly W0]to decide upon their course of action fuct that the crash pecarred in 2 Jesiland it was reported a settlement might ers or survivors to clamber up and | ¢ reached before morning. down the steep concrete walls of what is known as ihe Malbone Stree: “tun- STR‘K: :FTET‘P'QOBVES °sF & nel.” . R.T. HAS BEEN SETTLE f “The injured and dead were carried | New' York. Nov. 2—Announcement iy ladders taken from fi Charred bodies were placed in buriap lags to shroud them from the raze of the thousands of persons who gathered within 4° few mindtes arter the col- [tled. The men will return to work Jision. Policemen and men were | this morning. The company has azreed literally mobbed by fronzied men and |t0 reinstate 29 discharged union em- women who feared ‘the burdens they | ployes. It was the refusal of the cor- carried might be members of iheir | poration to accedte to ihis demand fumilies. which resulted in the strike. Hundre don pparatis. | was made at 1.45 o'clock this morning that the strike of motormen and motor switchmen on - the Brooklyn- id Transit .company lines. had. CONSIDERING GOV'T CONTROL OF NEWS PRINT PAPER Washington, Nov. 1. — Government control of the mews print papér in- dustry by which paper will be distrib- uted to all newspapers in the country to protect the smaller newspapers, is being considered by Chairman_ Ba- rach, of the War Indusiries Board. December 1 is the date the control would become effective under the present pian. Some larger mewspapers, have been able to purchase supply and in than their requir ones face a shor suspension of publication. A tentative plan has peen worked out by the pulp and paper section of the board for Chairman Baruch’s ap- proval. Operation of paper mills by the government is not contemplatel, Lut the entire newsprint output of the < of reserves formed,a cor- - — around the “tunnel” and kept the great throng from the long of ambulances which came clang- 2 from every direction. More than 100 members of the Women's Motor Corps of America responded with their cars to the calls for help. All kinds of vehi were pressed into service to_carr ad injured to hos- s and morg Iiescue worker: lieved more bodies le. the dead declared tsey be- were burietl under the wre and that the death list of men, women and children might| reach Probably twice tna: many were injured, many of them seriousiy. District Attorney Lewis of Kings County declared the accident was due 01 s on the part of the mo- iorman, who had been employed as a in dispatcher and was pressed into service Decause of the strike which into effect today after the com- had refused to reinstaze 29 am- ne raid, 1 ampl ave more smaller threatens charged un employes. e O O Mr. Lew:s |COUntry would be allotted actin on e O s s depani. |€ach paper’s requirements, thus as* ment appears to have kidnapped him.” |SUFing smaller papers now s have difficulty in_obta from the mills. ning news Police Commi Chatemr oner Enright echoed the assertion of Mr, Lewis o1 < Hrmahs "I accident apbears to have been |L00a¥ that an investigalion or the the result of a &reen motorman run- |“eWsprint situation disclosed that some i e evoossiva rate of |action by the government toward equitable distribution of paper is nec- | speed. The police now are searching for thi man.” 2 2 . e N arrants wobldeHe is considered probable that the ; A i 3 lan, if accepted, will supersede issued for the arrest of all officials of | I\oW Pln, ed, corporati: o b “lthe present restriction of.the use of the corporation who could be held re- |\ owsprine which reduced the news sponsible for the disaster. An inv tigation of the wreck was in progre late tonight at the office of the publ ervice commission. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit had made no statement concerninz the wreck and four hours after it happened ignorance was pro- fessed of exactly what had happened. The wrecked train was packed to the space in daily newspapers 15 per cen and Sunday editions (wenty per cent. | Mr. Baruch intimated he wouid be in Tavor of allowing each newspaper so; mach paper to be used in zny way the publisher desired. TO SAFEGUARD AMERICA’S aies with home-goins men, women VAST INVESTMENTS ABROAD “nd children. Service on the com-| o to TC = g 4 New York, Nov. 1.—Tormal organi- s iimes was materially Teduced | it€W S0P, ° Harn i nse of the strike and every train |Zatlon of the committee on formen curities of the Investment association, which is d guard Arerca’s vas abroad, was announced here today. The necessity of the committee arose, it was explained Yy the Thomas ‘Banker: gned to safe- investments left the Brooklyn Dridge was ally jammed by the thousands of -d residents of Brooklyn who al- most fought to get aboard. after the accident it was aif- ficult to_determine exa how it B g W, Lamonte of J. P. Morzan & Com- AP e crash came a aGark - e ke 'to give n cohercnr ac.lthe United States from a debior na- e L e Ciltion to the extent of 34000000000, to B O atod that n Second train had |® creditor nation with credits exceed- = $7,000,000. ploughed into the rear of the one|'™{ SLAohP o " ot Which had earried them and this was |, ACCOrdIng to Mr Laemont, at least the theory of District Attorney Lewis el indebtedness has been directly lqui- Gated, while the government has loan- 00,000,000 to its al- until denc: he had carefully sifted the ev at his command. He finaiiy de- t\ Ll"A i‘l‘x“jt !1«:;\0\'(‘1] that only one train oit (e Johnedl 8 o dditiona 5 0,000 Mr. Lewis and the police asserte] 2P additional $1,500.000.000 . that the train was running fuly-forty e MEN AT CAMP DEVENS HAD A 20-MILE HIKE Ayer. Mass., Nov. 1.—The entire Twelfth division returned to camp to- night after completing a hike of twen- ty miles with the men carrying full miles an hour when it took the carvs and plunged into the concrece side wall of the tunnel. It was difficult fo: t=em to believe at first, they said, that there could have been such heavy loss of life unless two traing had been nvolved. ‘The tunnel was compieed|;ncks and equipment. When the di= only recently and it was declared that | DR0e 00 FRCAMINE, 0P GoVoreq coly o mdrman thoroughiy familiar |op greq two miles square. The signal | with ‘the “line could have negotiated | go, Mr€% 08 MOLS SIMCTC, | e S - tne gurve safely cven at moderate|munication between general headquar-! Fhroeo o ters and each brigade. regimental When ihe first car jumpeid the track | o0 g ot ion ) eadquarters. it sideswiped the west :‘md | e eaatiing to. Casiin Devens, e o e O g anored | men weer reviewed by their command- i o et Major Gener ry P. McCain. hrough it, then buckled’ agalnst the [ Malor General Henry rocf and fell. A "The gloomy tunnel was quickly con. | AMNESTY GRANTED TO 10,000 FINNISH REVOLUTIONARIES Stockholm, Nov. 1-—The Finnish ad- ministrator on Thursdy announced of- fickally the granting amnesty to about according to 4 shambles. The wreckage into flames, increasing the in- bable panic among the passen- Almost every passenger In the irst car was killed or desperately in- of 10.000 revolutionaries d Many of those unable to drag !t oadvices received herc from Helsing- of the wreckage ns sentenced to fours Lee bought 10406 value f $330,000, it was stated. = : e nment et P or less will be N