Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 304 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918 on the manufacture of woolen has been removed and civilian orders can now be filled. Wilson to Be Guest of King George. London, Dec. 19.—President Wilson - probably will be the guest of the king at Buckingham Palace during his visit to England. This official announce- According to Word Received by Governor McCall From the | ment was made tonight, War Department the 26th (New England) Division Has | 6,03 NAMES IN TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS Not Been Placed on the Priority Schedule For an eu\rly ashington, Dec. 18—Tho tollowing X g . £l ‘casu: les are reports tl Com- Return to the United States—The Division is Now in a manding Gem;l" sl = peditionary ‘orces: Rest Camp in France—Plans For the Peace Conference | ® 383 I Sotion 116; died of wounds not . my . g Victor Em‘n“el Df 24; died of accident and other causes i Are Shaping Rapidly—Kin; 1.:; g}‘;fl of fii;-plane u%eldent 1; died| e o A of disease 137; woundede severely Italy Has Arrived in Paris. 1,319; wounded (degree undetermined) 584; wounded slightly 664; missing in Hoston, Dec. 18.—An early return|awaiting the opening of the confer-|aotion 213; total 3,070. of the Twenty-Sixth (New England) |ence. It was not stpposed until today | “Connecticut, Rhode Island and dfvision from France will depend up- | that he would visit England before|soythern Massachusetts men: on the progress of the peace nmegotia- | the New Year, but he has receive Killod2 T Attion, fiens, according to word received to- | urgent Invitations to come soon. . | o 2, Y o Whe war deparcment by Gov- | American observers deduce from the ivate Henry Murray, Pawtucket, crmor MeCall. The Adivision is now pressing invitations to the president |R. I in o rest camp in France 1o coine) to g, dartik Chritins Died from Wounds. The letter, which was written in re- | timo that some conferences of tA¢| Pprivate Warren Robert Hough, Ter- «ponse 1o a request by Governor Mc- | statesmen with the president re | ville. T e fnfarmation. concerning the | would logically follow. It is under- STAY OF NEW ENGLAND MEN | oo deee: divis O e Tawenty.Gixth | stood, however, that the president fa- Died of Disease. e Sain. Siktad. ba: the' priority wors the holding of all conferences in| =Privates—Thomas Jordan, _Stam- v - v rot yme to | Paris as far as possible. ford; Georgantis, Springfield, Mass. sehedule for an early roturn home 10| 5" appears to be viitually settled i grnensi, that all the agfual peace conferences | = W::m:d ?;vergiy- Lo will be held in Paris and that the in- jeutenants—Harol ¥ ony, PRAISE FOR NEW ENGLAND formal exchanges, which will lay the [Newport, R. L; William Hepburn, NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS | groundwork for the final deliberations, éWmdsur; George R. Stevens, Jr., New Jost . 19.—A ner<tofore un- 0 will he carried on here. ‘anaan. 5 pubebed e emdntion of the Twen- | How long the president will remain | _Corporals—Francis A. Tucker, Valley ty-Sixth division composed of New |in London has not ban determined, F:al!s, R. L; William jlenry Henson, Pngland national guard troops, was|but as he is due to return for the|East FHartford; Frank N. Russell found toda Major J. W. Hyatt, opening of the coni Tence nere the | Worcester, Mass. \de to Major General Clarence R. Ed- | first week in January, it would seem| Mechanic Donald M. Fraser, River wnrds, formsr commander of the di-|that he could not remain in Bngland |Point, R. I > fston, in unpacking trunks brovszht [ f0r long. Privates—Chester Smith, Danbury; France, The commendation Stanley Wajnowski, Terryville; Louis h.ik 11;0‘: letter from Major General | BRITISH WILL SUPPORT Aarons, Bridgeport; Raymond L. Di- Degontte, commanding the Sixth SINKING OF GERMAN SHIPS |voll, Worcester, Mass.; John T. Fyench Army, to Major General Ed-| Washington, Dec. 19.—Press des- |Morsch, New Haven; Daniel Cart: | wards, and said: patches from Paris saying that the |Wright, Woonsocket; John Gogoll,| “The battjes fought by the Twenty- | American peace delegates, with Brit- | Thomaston; Hugh G. Ol Green- | Sixth Ameriean divisions from the|eh support, will urge the sinking of | Wich; Clarence D. Ken Worces- elghth to the 25th of July have demon- etrated the fine militar: , this organization and the sition, led to initiation of steps|den; Fred B. Norton, Providence, R. Its commander, General Bdwards, in the senate to obtain an offi- |L; Leonardo Lavallo, Torringts “Co-operating ck north of | cial statement of the facts, and to|Ernest R. Thomas, Rockville; Whea! the Marne the ixih division | wide discussion in naval circles. At|on G. Hudson, Hartford; Edward Ma fought brilltantly on the line Torcy-|the state and navy departments no|guire, Danbury; William J. Whalen, lleau to Montheirs to Ebleds and|jnformation was available, Secretary | Bridgeport. ‘rugnq aid in the forest of Fere, thus | Danjels repeating his previous state- ; George L. Br ; Gustave A. Gas de the surrendered German warships as | ter, Mas: aualities of | the solution of the problem of their |dence, R. llantry of miaking an advance of more than fit- | ment that he never had heard the sug- | cunded (Degree U""”""""’g" teen kilometars in depth, in spite of the | cestion officially, while at the state de- | Lieutenant Edwin S. Munson, Col- desperate resistance of the enemy. DREtment’ &t ‘was-seid that: so. fav. as |ohester. o g “] wish to express to General Ed-|known there, no such projoat was Sergeant Georze Shea, Worcester, wards and 1o his gallant division my|cluded in the Ameyican peace pro-|Mass. high esteem and happicst congratula- | zramme. Corporals—Joseph L. Pard, Woon- tions for the manner ig which they| The first published susgestion that |socket, R. L 1 have served the common eause™ the ships be sunk came from London| Privates—William Welsh, Bridge- S ag e several days ago but even before that | port; Fred J. Ludy ipringfield, KING OF ITALY HAS it was learned, it had occurred to some | Mass.; Clinton F. & Al ARRIVED IN PARIS | naval authorities here as one possible | Redvers Bowen, Ansonia ] way of settling a vexing problem. Lyman, Worcester, Mass.; Paul Gird Pars, Dec, 19.—King Victor Em- menuel, accompanied by the heir to (lw Italian throne, the Prince of Pied- Admiral Benson, chief of naval op- |zis, Waterbu dter F. Land erations and designated as naval ad- | Hartford Rader, Norwich. vise A ca e ga- i wed in Paris today, A warm welooms | jis’views, worked out with Vies Ad. | Lieutenant Daniel G. O'Connell, was given the ltallan mondreh by | oo VIRHS WOrRes O A, e Brit. | West Haven. Uresident Poineare, Premier Clemen- | ich admiralty and the French minls- | Privates—Pletro Amodio, Danbury; eau and the other mimistezs, and the | try of marine, will have great weight |John A. Kearns, New Haven; Charles, throngs in ihe- strests Aoetimod him | wies the Amerieart’ doléentes on na. | A. Lemora, Warsem, R. L; Harold B.j voeiferously, aa ine procession let the | val questions arising at the confer- |Anson Woodville; Arthur A. Kroeber, «tation and went to the lalian. em- | ence. but there is nothing here to in- | Meriden; Joseph Simonin, Torrington: bassy. dicate what conclusion he may have |Beni Szylin, Providence, R. L; John This evening the king paid a visit | reached on the disposition of the sur- [J. Miniter, Unionville. to President Wilson at the Murat | renerea cratt Missing in Action. mansion. 1t had been expected tha - i s 100 ; A ; Victor £mmanuel and President. Wil- | that o peamcenr o e s tofay | Privates—ohn J. O'Nelll, Granston, son would meet for the first time at | would meet strong opposition in con. | iecsh Seorss, B Fo g {he luncheon to be given in honor of | yrass. "The Daris deaputohes prompred | J0sePh Ritchie, New Haven the king by Stephen Pichan, the | G e o e todoy a| Wounded Severely in Action, Prev- _P;'afltl*;mlfl;;,lp!:’" m‘::;:,l!lg;m wmm\cv‘- resolution calling on the state depart- |iously Reported Died of Diseases: again, and possibly £NJ time £oF con- | ther Amorom heitatos are ol et | et B i e at a dinner to be given at| gestruction of the enemy ships and if | sl mons Caung. Tavtts n embassy by the KBz 1055 by what authority, Tho resclution | pesicrer miauie Do N ent FYiday evening, W Teft on the Gbin IR i pik o, o asley Danhelale ew it of the king took place at | "as left on the table without discus-|Haven; Victor Peter Walter, Meriden. ix o'clock. The convérsation be- |non “id Senior Todee ¥ fouth | Killed in Action, Previously Report- tween the monarch and the prestdent, [ pP00 P78, SERCE, B o A rver 1n | ed Missing: which is gaid to have been most ¢Or- | the senate Saturda; Private Wilfred J. Champagne, Wat- Mal, lasted half an hour. Premier b Sy 5% Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino { wEL] WISHES FOR WILSON B ied Bevirely, Priviously Has will meet President Wilson at eleven o'clock _tomorrow morning. FROM PEACE SOCIETIES| porind Miseira: Speaking to a group which sur- New York, Dec. 19.—A resolution Privates—Bartholomew H. Giaburri, rounded him this afternoon, King Vic- | wishing President Wilson entire suc- | New tiaven; s.co G X. Keefe, Wat- tor Emmanual said that besides com- cew in his ;flar{;«‘ for a league of na- lerbury; John Licamella, Bridgeport. ing to Paris to visit the French peo- | tions, to be cabled to him at Paris, i S0 B SN, s s yery HIo3 | rae waopten | Hesstthaky; by Mety sen.| . Waundsd.. (Peares: Undetermined), 1o be able personaliy and officially to | resentatives of seven of America’s |Previously Reported Missing in Ac- irvite President Wilson to be his|leading peace socleties ar a luncheon |tion: guest at the Quirinal, and that he had | given by Samuel T. Dution. The Corporals—Charles E. Grant, Hart- Leen requested by Queen Helena to| organizations repvesented were the |ford; Charles E. Grant, Hartford; {gfend the same invitation (o Mrs | World Court League, of which Mr.|Gerraro Capoblanco, Waterbury. n. itton is general secretary; League 7 7 - Members of the American expedi- | to Enforce Fonce, League of Free Na.| THURSDAY AFTERNOON'S LIST tionary forces also participated in the | tions Associntion, American Peace So-| Killed in action 79; died of wounds welcome to Victor Emmanuel In | ciety, Church Peace Union, Carnegie|28; died of accident and other causes heavy motor trucks they lined the | Endowment for Internati transverse streets overlooking the|and the New York Peace Society. The |of disease 74; wounded severely 1,034; route of the procession. In addition | message to the president read: wounded, degree undetermined 612; io goldiers the trucks contained hun- | “Fifty Americans from several | wounded slightly 896; missing in ac- dreds of army nurses. All the Amer- | states, representing all oreanizations | tion 228; total 2, 960. icans cheered lustily as the procession | interested in & league of uations, wish| The Connecticut names in the list: passed, and frequently there were|you entire and effective success in Killed in Action shouts In French of “Vive Italy, Vice | your purpose to form such a league ‘ TLAC In; Aeson. Le Rol.” 28 will Insure justice hetween aa. | Private Richard H. Brown, Meri- President Poincare tendered a lunch- | tions and enduring peace among men.” | 4en- con to the‘hklr‘-(g :’z th‘?fl ‘Eltvu:; P)A;lace. Henry Morgenthau, former am- Died of Disease. During the king’s visit to the Murat | bassador to Turkey, declar & - mansion; n addition to_inviting Pres- | dress. that becatss Amcrcane. oo Ph s e e jdent Wilson and Mrs. Wilson to visit | “Idealists™ and the nations associated | 30> lufl‘y[.' be“nlnn eztlt‘r: fl,d t.‘-: unguuov; with us against Germany are “ma- to Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of | terialists” it may become nece ok the president, Tor President Wilson to £av, bofore the it o ine Tl g —_— peace confersyce is_over, “We are go- i dge- PLANS FOR PEACE MEET ing it alone Mr. Wilson, he aasert- | bor Beesat & Gole, Proasant " vt NOT SHAPING RAPIDLY | 8. is perfectly capable of saying that, | Juv.” Jonn Tonkell, New Haven. e is necessary, in_carrying out his pro- 2 4 ”::_-cmmlz_ngeg;‘_“e" Dgl‘;":-ml:; me of idealism. Wounded (Degree Undetermined). o e a s : : . comsiissioers expected. Meanwhile | T, O SOUrtiont, declard tho Ger-| Privates=Willlam = teo, Few Heto President Wilson is taking advantage | or" T fone ! 15, hala tha oma s 108l | o ArtE 3 kotrom, New Triain: of the opportunity to assess public | g1 " atmennon 1o ux:x ‘only prac- | Walter A. ckstrom, 2 ewb _nF n& opinion in France, and incidentally in | jeqene “ig y m:n ng such a|Joseph N. Angelotti Derby; Fres Great Britain. His advisers say that our ons with Ger- | Cunningham, Waterbury. he is entirely satisfied that these peo- ey GRS T Wounded Slightly. les are lurgely in accord with the O] e Drincipies ho has ammounced as neces- | PIE CUTTER AVERAGED $o0 | Dt G i W Gilmore, _Now sary to a durable X A DAY FOR FOUR MONTHS |London; .Hamilton H. Hefferon, The members of the American mis- | Boston. Dec. 19, — Ralph Adams Rpekville; Louls 'W. Katzen, Sims- gion are employing their time before | Cram, member of the Boston Planning |bury;Stanley H. Suehodoiski, ~Water- the peace delegates from the various | Bord, told the members of the Bos-|bury: Patrick A. Sullivan, Hartford; countries actually assemble, in a_se- | ton Housing Asscciation today that he | Joseph W. Ahern. Middletown. ries of informal conferences, Which|paq found at the Fore River yard of Missing in Acti eventually will include a representa- | the Bethlehem Shipbuliding Corpore: issing in Action. tive of each of the entente belliger- | fion o dio cutter who received $994 for| Private Paul Glaser, Rockville. ents. Neutral siates will not come | one day's pay. For a period of four into these discussions. mSunts this man averaged $220 every | NUMBER OF CASUALT!ES The feeling among all the entente | working day, Mr. Cram said. This, ace YET TO BE PUBLISHED conferees is that the making of peace | Coraing: to Mr. Cram, was concidercd should be their first task, so that they | prE 10, Mo SFR, vae cor Washington, Dec. 19.—Casualtles of may determine upon the broad out- | %y o3 during the war fx Accor | the. American _expeditiouary forces Yines of a leazue of nations, which, | Lob % BUE SETPE LE | which have not been published but later, representatives of neutral coun- | “N W CRITICIF ROV L o | which have been anmounced officlally tries’ will assist in completing. ance of this machinist and others g | Py General Pershing had been reduc- While the American comminsioners | eyrmed high pay. while investigating | 80 At noon, December 18, to a total of are holding these informal exchanges, | noveing conaitions for the gooens | 66,892 These, the war department which are designed to clear up diver- | ment govern-| ynnounced today, were classified as [ X g g o i T ias casulties, nchine iilat & ing the att ajor casualties, including Yon to immediats problems. He is| MASS MEETINGS OF GENERAL |, tion, died of wounds, died of disease ‘ecoiving reports: from the United ELECTRIC CO. EMPLOYES | and died of other causes, 1,680; wound~ American _diplomatic | Lynn, Mass, Dec. 19.—Two mass|ed 64,862; missing and prisoners %50. meetings were held tonight by em-| A large proportion of the 643862 ployes of the General Electric Com- | names listed as wounded are minor pany to conmsider whether a general | cases, it was said, many patients hav- strike should be called as a protest | ing long since recovered and returned against the dischargo of thirty men [t oduty. Officials explained that the the company's plant at Erfe, Pa., | total is already less, due to the fact taken, both that General Pershing’s total includ- ed marine casualties of 1,202 killed and Wounded Severely. Corporals—Richard C. Grant, South nal Peace, |8; died of airplane accident 1; died | Influenza is More |Contrahand Liquor Claimed 6.000,000 Victims|Government Agents ~Find Throughout the World ini a Wholesale Plant in Deaths 20,000,000 in 4!, — Made Shipments to Years. Georgia. The Times' medical correspendent |to government agents who today seal- says that it eems reasonable to be-|ed up a cellar here which they claim lieve that throughout the world about|contains a large amount of contra- 6,000,000 persons perished from- influ- | band liquor, a wholesaiz bootlegging enza and preumonia during the past|establishment has been revealed. With three months. the arrest of David Shaw of Mecon, It has been estimated that the war|Gr., the sovernment men claim that caused the deaths of 20.000,000 per-|they had puz a stop to the shipping sons in four and a half years. Thus,|of $20,000 worth of whiskey a month the correspondent points out,. influ-(into Georgia. The manner in which enza has proved itself fivo times dead- | the liquor was shipped aceording to lier than war, because in the same|the government men, was in the form period, at its epidemic rate, influen- | of barrels of tar. A three inch layer za_would have killed 100,000,000. of tar was put in the hotfom of the Never since the Black Death hasjbarrel. The a quantity of bottled such a plague swept over the world. | whiskey with the bottles wrapped in he says, ‘adding that the need of a|wax paper to prevent sticking was new survéy of public health meas-|put in. The tar was poured in on ures never has been more foreibly il- | these and the process depeated until the lustrated. barrel was filed with the three inches e of tar on the top. Then the barrel was INVESTIGATING ACTIVITIES sealed and pped to its destination, NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE |suid the officials to Mac»n, Ga. Washington, Dee, 19—Investigation TR of the activities of the National Se-| OBJECT OF SOGIALISTS curity league of New York in opposing WAS TO ABOLISH WAR re-election of members of congress| Chicago, Dec. 19.—An effort to show during the last campaign began today | that the anti-war campaign of the so- before a special house _committee| cialicsts in this country was part of an headed by Representative Johnson of | international movement to abolish war Kentucky. he entire day was taken|and militarism in the interest of hu- up with the examination of Colonel! maniry and to make permanent world Charles E. Lydecker, president of the | peace possible, was made by Adolph league, but many other officials of the | Germer, general secretary for the Na- organization will be heard later. tional S party, in testifying to- Colonel Lydecker told the committee | day in the federal that the avowed purpose of the league | court, where f icaders are last fall was to return to congress|on trial for violation of the espionage men with broad vision and foresight|act. and “who would be 100 per cent.| Germer said that the socialists hop- American in their beliefs” ed to compel the United States to take Not to mention any names,” Colonel| the jead in the movement to end the Lydecker said, “I can safely eay that I| war and_enforce the disanmament of would have been sorely disappointed|rhe world. Germer did not deny that to have seen certain congressmen re- | the socialist party published and eir- turned to office. Our efforts were used | culated the anti-war literature which against those men, some of wWhom|the governmen: ¢ decidedly pro-German, and|gitions. He read to vere defeated, in some instances | proclamation issued and by fusion. The action of consress as| tion adopted b a whole during the great crisis just|party in oppo: passed was magnificent, but unfortu-|igia. nately there were Certain members| Germer admitted that the party whose loyalty could be questioned. It|printed and circulated the anti-war was those men the league opposed.” | pamphlets to which objection was Pamphlets giving eight “acid tests” | made by the sovernment, including the by which the lovalty of congressmen | gt Louis convention proclamation and should be judged webe circulated|war programme, “the price we pay” throughout the country, Colonel Tv-|ana “why hould fight” decker said. These tests, he said, were Add the party had a the votes of members on preparedness | qefense fund for the benefit of, mem- measures which had been hefore con- ] ng litera- gress and which the leazue believed | yyre ‘money ever were, for the welfare of the cOUD'TY. | was used to defend those who got in- Names of congressmen who voted| (s trouple for evading the draft. against the measures were included e bl every resolu- the national socialist on to the wir since was the league infiuenced by any par- ¢ MAIL REORGANIZATION tisan or political considerations,” Col- Washington, Dec. 19—Letters and onel Lydecker-stated. “It was actuat- | statsments from Caplain. 3. B. Lips= e solely by a desire to see the country{ ncr of. Chicago, who resigned as su- end the war as speedily as possible. | porintendent of the aerinl ‘mail ser- We may have made mistakes, but if|vice, requestinig consressional inves- we &id they were made unintention-; tigation of the recént aerml mail re- all. We campaign for nobody and|organization end fraking a number were entirely above board. jof charges against post office depart- = ment officials_were preseated to the HOW AMERICANS AVENGED senate today by ¢ Sherman of LOES OB THE BRITANNIAL S onte: a1 Seaine: SHeiman S 4 documents. ator S : e D A saerestion, ferred to the sen- Brit ship Britannia, sunk off | 2% Milltary . e the arn entrance the Straite off ™ o S ave been ',.:n 10 reans, Gibraltar on November 9, by destroy- | cha® T, T R0 IS © :ne"_‘ 57 ing three of the five attacking sub- | So° P Nl e s, acrording to officers. of the| Seree I IS et N e ot nsport Black Arrow, which was a | O MOTY on IBS aerial mail Is threat- member of the Britannia’s convoy. The | i’ S S transport, formerly the German steam- | ; - (oo Tpeald T wish to state that ship Black Hawk, arrived hLere today | L WS toid by Second Assistant Post- from Gibraltar with eight American | Taster General Traeger that the post- officers and 115 enlisted men. Sl e b “We were attacked off the African | Smenn (e (Jlonn Magtin (airplane) coast, near Tangiers,” said the officer | “xyhon” told about the leiter Post- in describing the battle. “There were| ‘WVHen told ebout the fefior, Boss fi\-;e submarines, the pearest being five | o+ ‘mm‘ 2 spdrrelioge miles away when we sigated them. | Niaper ; The Britannia, came in between when }“f]‘,'s‘,.";‘r.s"’r‘},"""‘n; o et the subs had reduced tae distance to e it A Arite oiver bot three quarters of a mile, e e ot The ammasines " rerpedosd and | UCILY in connection with the captain's sank the Britannia, while we made oft | TeSignation at top speed, sending S. O. S. calls for N F help. American destroyers foined us EALLSIONTEENENDS OF de and gave battle to the submarines, NAVY TO JOIN RED CROSS sinking three with depth bombs. The| Washingto: 19. — Secretary two others escaped. Daniels toda statement call- | “The casuaities on the Britannia|ing on all f s of the American must have ben great, for many bodies | navy to join the Red Cro:s during the were piled on shore. A destroyed casne | Christmas roli call now in progress. into Gibraltar later with her decks| “There can be but one response to piled with British dead. the Christmas roll call of the Ameri- A British admiralty statement on|can Red Cross from all those who have November 11 announced that thirty- | relatives or {riends in the American nire officers and 673 men of the Bri-|arby” said ihe secretarr. tannia crew were €aved. “Throughout the war the Red Cross B has suppiemented the efforts of the AMERICAN VIEW OF navy by supplying many services and FREEDOM OF THE SEAS| ¢omforts which could not be under- London, Dec. 10, — Tue American e e o view of the relation of the freedom of e eiime e ) of thik the seas to the League of Nations, as | amcrCy hocame & memler of i he understands it, is explained by the| (co/1q wiae refiof T add- and I feel T Paris _correspondent of th Manches- | porv¥UHS S0 0 SO AT o auardian in a despatch to his|, reguest that all friends of the Amer- asked to surrender their “means of | o¢ tpic bven B 5 2 of | of this:crganization. pressure,” hut to agree on the condi- e oo tlons for their use. The correspondent supposes tho case of a government be- | MORE G000 WORK FOR coming recalcitrant and going to war THE SALVATION ARMY and declares that in sueh a case the| New York, Dec, 1 Because the Jeague would use all the force at its| work has becom. 0 vast this year as disposal against that government, in- | Ot overwhelm it” the Santa Claus cluding the blockade %nd capture at|Association of America, which sup- sea. plies poor children in twenty of the largest cities with Christmas gifts, has TO RETAIN THE PROVING asked the Saivation Army o take over GROUND AT ABERDEEN, MD.|the organization, it was announce Fashi % here tonight. The 20.000 members e O e ystention, of | have pledged themselves to continue and gradual development of the gov- | Liei activities, which inciude scnd- ernment ordnance plant at Neville Is- | 115 SIUS W0 8 BAUSSCIR 08 (e land, Pa,, to the full scope of the plans g vember was 113,283 ' Deadly Thafl war Shlllllflfl as Tal' "‘33:‘5.;?:.’.‘“.‘;.2’.‘:!;‘,9“:"‘5‘:?,iu... will Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Congress Refused to Receive Dele eports in the coffee trade that the emanded the Right P Y o "% | Shipping Board all oted Speaker’s Stand and D to Fre Three Months — War| a Cellar in Cincinnati|sor South Amorica chused nptimime" TLondon, Dec. 19.—(Via Montreal)—| Cincinnati, 0. Dec. 19-—According|and Barcelona, Spain. The king sus.| Berlin, Wednesday, De ¢ | ports for the same time amounted to| Mittee plan for mew rates on casualty, |fice and other government “HSSEES e e FAGTONS N BERLIN CONTINE T0 LA Detroit Edison will issue $2,600,000 visit the United, States next spring. Because of congestion at stockyards an embargo was put on ail fresh load- ings of hogs for Chicago. Senator New of Indiana introduced Resolutions Demanding That All Authority Be Vested bill prohibiting the display of the red & iers’ and Workmen’s, Councils. flag throughout the United States. in the Soldi W ket B urbances i ht- are reported at Balboa 10.—(By| threat by Dr. Karl Liebkuecht that pended parliament indefinitely. The A. P)—When the Soldiers’ and|there would be a genernl strike S < 5 > SONY. 2 m v 1l mg;;lo&;lt lliarnzr;;r‘fooAbs:;n_mion Watie | Workinen's Cogrons rosumoed te Wesal S0 o8 TRorSaRS HEEEE X Rl U 1§s Of cotton| iong this morning it was evident The congress finally agreed to ap= Loans to farmers by the Federal | hati further sensations were im-|point a committee to meet a ‘delegas *H) Farm Loan system in November s ece| PeRding to haighten the sension result- | tion after the plenary session, when $8,079,605. @ 5 il{xg frhm Tuesda; sm'_;lashes getween sudden]); v_h:itthorkmen an;xi El the cal et representatives and mem- | women forc: their wav to fhe speak- Y;:;'ésa':,rf‘;?;m:; ‘;‘:e ss’l‘fr;‘;“e 2nd | bers of e exceurive committee. - | er's stand and the session again was last through 1919, Heient tof The house adopted Chairman Lein-| thrown into a tumuit. Tke spokesman Diucing: the war 40:000000" & ¢{art’s susgestion that the congress re-|of the invaders demanded . the right e e 0": 9% | tuse to receive delegatious whose com- | to presert resolutions ternanding that Shipped: from’ Chicage meat were | ing was not arranged for, such as the|all authority be vested in the soldiers g Eos. 1 ; soldicrs who invaded the hall on|and workmen's councils. General pan= h_"‘ six months’ service, with a ay. demonium foilowed. e Tachine gun eompany . in. - Hurope, members then proceeded to de-| The chairman finally restored order ber of the homal oov Johnson, mem- | pate in executive committes, and were | by compromising with the workmen Yettondan remuse from South Dakota| so engaged when word was received | and permitting fhem to present their e S oL mset. | that a delezation of workmen was|rescolution. The invaders then left cials of the Young Men’s|gutside demacding admission under a' the hall . Christian Association will thoroughly in';'g_sugfl.te complaints by wounded 3 b 5 Ifl:mfig i:fl;;':éggngriaivfilr;l?;wibm‘;‘g SENATE VOTES FOR REDUCED METHODS OF GERMAN 5 are being conducted. SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PROPAGANDA DESCRIBED John W. Davis, the new American| Washington, Dec. 19.—By adopting| Washington, Dec. 19.—Propaganda ambassador to Great Eritain, pre-|the finance committee amendments to|machinery, set up by the German sented his credentials to King George | the war revenue bill affecting eecond | government in Berlin and throughout at_Buckingham Palace. | class postage and insurance companies | the world, to.spread Gernanic ideas The Danish Minister at Petrograd,|the senate today cleared the way for|and the methods of financing this accompanied by the official personnal|disposal of the few other contested|the United States, were descrived 9= of his legation, left that city ibut important features remaining.|day to the senatc investigating com= A coalition cabinet, with Albert|Leaders now have increased confiGence |mittee by Alfred L. Becker, ueputy Gutierrez in charze of Foreign Affairs, |Of passing the bill before adjourn- | attorney, general of New York. - was announced for Bolivia. ment next Monday, The witness also told of I\s fuwewti+ John C. Calhoun, grandson of the| DYy a vote of 3¢ to 22, the senate|gation for the French government of American statesman, died in New |approved the committee amendment|the success of Bolo Pasha, executed York from heart failu proposing repeal next July 1 of the|as a French traitor, in getting $1,688,- Senator Lodge denied the report in| Dresent stem of second class | 000 of German money in this country the Paris “Matin,” saying he favored |POSage rates and substitution of a(for purchase of the Paris Jourmal, the plan for a league of nation rate of one cent per pound within 150 | but added that since apparently the By a voto of 50 to 12 the Senate ap- | Miles and one and one-half ceénts be- | Paris Journal did not change its attis roved the child labor. section of the!Sond. Most of the day Was spent in|tude of loyalty toward France, the 181920 revenue bill, levying prohibi. | SPirited discussion of this amendment | transaction was a “pure swindle” of tive taxes Upon profits from cnild la.|2nd one by Senator MceKllar of Ten- | the German government, Tior! nesses for & modified zone plan, which | 3r. Becker read documenta gathered 5 i was rejected without a roll cali. partly by the British secret servica xrfi.’f“;’?’a;fof:égd'"t:hg;,g“’{‘[fso_°"fi:d,‘ The senate also approved the |>m-|showing that the German foreign of= .00 fire, marine and.other insurance com- | ments at Berlin maintained (etlabom S P | panies, except insurance. e new | systems both before and after mfl:;tsp;:;yzffl;\’flfi::’ et based on premium rates, are,|Eieopean war began to influence o O B 8t 40842 | respectively: Fire insurance compa-|thought all over the world, working i0s e T A e "~|nies, 1 8- per cent; casualty, plate|mainly through the press. -, D e A T e from| 51255 and similar companies, '1 1-2| One example of enemy propaganda, ercan oA ke ror | per cent.: and marine, 2 1-4 per cent.|said Mr. Becker, consisted of the ay= P o et ot whoat, “A-pro. | n inland and 13-4 per cent. on ex-|tematic effort late in 1917 to spread sl - | port policies. __|throughout the world the idea that Gl il reanN Disposal of these and many minor | Germany was on the verge of internal A -pcundkco dxst' c;ugm oft Nan“!administrative and verbiage changes|revolt and that the kaiser would soon :ucli_'et was -s'iv}C'r"le o Fans: 2 81| 1oft virtually only the income, war ex- | be overthrown. The fact that the dif= o President Wilson for Lis New|cess profits, inheritance and luxury|semination of these reports was em— Year's dinner. : % tax sections to be considered. couraged by the chief German govern- 2 Sev ven war workers, who ex-{ "4 upstitute for the committee’s bill; ment censor was convincing evidence pect t assigned to Wwith the | pronosing large tax increases, princi- | that the efforts were propaganda, in: American Aty of Occupation, sailed | pally on big incomes and war excess | tended to “paralyze the prosecution ot ‘{?hm 3:;0“1‘ or r‘ncm:uo aboard the} 5rofits, was introduced late today by |the war,” in Mr. Becker’s opinion. TKE S Phlnef—»a“"lgm B Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, re- | said these reports had been sent The number of students at Boston| yplican, who is expected to make a!of Germany by Georse T. Odell, cor= smndversliy has_grown in sevenm years|iengthy address tomorrow in its be-|respondent of the New ¥ork- from 1347 to 3792, . half. Senator. Jomewof New .Mexico,{ Mail,” after the United States The assignment of Rsv. John A.|genigcrat, plans to advocate an amend- | the war, and were circulated widely by McCarthy of Manchester, N. H. ment to continue war profits taxation |the McClure newspaper syndicate, de- chaplain of the . Portsmouths through 1920, and Senator Thomas of | scribed as a subsidiary of the Mail. Yard was :;xsggncsi:.c s Colorado, democrat, is expected to pro- | head, Mass, were close pose elimination of the inherltance ta%| LIGHT THROWN ON WORK the illness of many teachers and DU- | fowa and "others prepared to urge re- AT HOG ISLAND SHIPYARD 1 & ; insertion of the 20 per cent. tax omy Washington, Dec. 19.—Investigation with food and supplies for the army | jyxuries. of the construction of the Hog Island with food and sfupplies for' the arm: Bes these questions, that of|shipyard was resumed ioday by the of occupation are crossing the Rhine | pregeribing 1920 tax rates, opposed by | senate commerme committee, with. daily with German crews. { republicans, remains for disposition. = | Charles Piez, zeneral manager of the . Transfer of Brigadier General Scott f the second class postage| Emergency Fleet Corporation, and in command of Camp Di day was regarded as remov- | Charles M. Schwab, until recently di- command of Camp Greenleaf, was | ing a considerable obstacle from the | restor general, as the principal wit- announced in army order: bill's path. e Reports that there was settlement The decission to reopen the inquiry between the Vatican and the Quirinal| csraTE OF GEORGE EHRET resulted from a statement recently and here is a possibility of the Pope | HAS BEEN RESTORED TO HIM|made in th- senate that $38000,000 leaving the Vatican were denied. : iz had been speiit so far on construc- One thousand Americans working| New York, Dec. 19—The estate ofltion and that the one ship completed in two abandoned Scotch dist Ebret, wi Theta s nat hy untll o res made 60,000 mines which were la 3 g .| turned. tc the yards for)modickiiu orth Sea. 3 Mr. Piez ic d that the total ex-. ation of the Esthonian army, | ¢ s v] Bhret was in with the encouragement of the Allie 15 red to hlm_b)‘ and with a view to combating invas- | Attors 3 Gregory, according jon by the Germans, has been accom- |to an anncircement here tonight by plished. ) iarvin, managing director Perfection by John M. Browning of | o >aimes a machine gun for airplanes so that done by sub-corfractors. According to the flier can by pressing a trigger property was | unconfirmed . reports, e 5,600 shots a minute was a d | not opposed, Mr. Garvan declared that | Ayerican International Company has at Ogden, Utah, by fhe imventor. | the & “shuold in no way be tak- | xpended neeriy a million dollars of its Captain Laning of the Bureau of cn as own monez on the plant. pet Navigation told the House naval com- | lovalty Mr. Pic thoush 5 per cent, coms mittea that the entire American Navy | citizen. . mission would be a reasonable amount Under the “trading_with the enemy | { Feiskasslen i L cannot be brought home before Jan.| Under the Mrading with the enciy | o pay the - comnary " Edw sce| 3 §| obliged to take over the property of m5‘32:30fl"i‘;\‘r.'li;e:;“'cz"‘;:‘g" F|20 American citizens who, were in| WOMAN FOUND MURDERED: House merchant marine committeo | Germany when the law: became ef- HUSBAND IS MISSING that 25 wireless stations in Mexico | fective. M. Ehret recently returned| Naehua, N. H, Dec. 19. — Blood were under German’ control during the | f©0 the United States, having left Ger-| ¢rcying ‘dgown the front door of an. war. many st e st cprotiunlty apartment honse on Gilman street tas penditures to date amounied to about . American Corpora- for build- ing the plant, has not been paid any- thing. Most cf the work, i said, was Colonel Henry D. Lindsley, newiy- day led to the discove of the body appointed dircc};or of the Bureau of | 2225000 IN ATLANT!C of Mrs. Orra Lord, 23 years of age, i War Risk Insurance, said he would DIVISION OF RED CROSS | the closet of the second fAoor tenement personally investigate_charges made | tyachington, Dec. 19.—Six million | With a buller hole in he head. Wills against the bureau by members of {'norcons have joired the American Red |iam E. Reed, the medical referce, sal Congress. | Gross since ihe beginning of the |the woman nad heen dcad more than. Representative Darrow of Pennsyls | Christmas “roll call” Monday. In | fifteen heurs. The police at once be- vania introduced a Dill demanding |niaking this announcement tonight, | gan a search far her Lushand, Wil trial and punishment of “William Ho- | ped Cross headquarters said reports | fred Lord, 24 years. 3 henzollern and every one associated ates iadicate that the cam- | Lord is an electrician and failed to: with him in the violation of the law - mow IS going at top speed and | report for work this morning. At noom of nations and the committing of sathering a miom@ntum that | it was statel at the factory where he brutal atrocities in the war. i continue until the close of the |was employed, he appeared at the of- ERoC e eee arive nex ay. fice and erew ffteen dotiars which was o i due him. That was the last seen of SPELLACY LEGAL ADVISOR was said virtually all were obtained | him. 5 IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT | yp'to Wednesday night as few reports| From what the police could learn of Hartford, 19.—Tt was | were received on today's results. The | the couple, they were married four stated on T today that; Atla visi comprising New | years ago and had one child, who is Thomas J. Spellacy, who w s the dem- r v_J v and Connecticut, | living with grandmother. Some" flate for mor at the | conti to lead in number of mem- | time ago. it was stated by (he“;oues~ leotion on Novembes 5, lizd been ap- | herships with 2,225,000 enrolled up to | the Lords separated but recently per=, pointed lesal adviser in the navy de-|late yesterday. suaded his wife, who worked in a shoa partment with special duties Which factory, to live with him sgain. Four would take him to Europe. DECLARES GERMANY (S davs ago they moved into the Gila Mr. Spellacy went to Washington on RUINED FOR GENERATIONS |Man Street house of which they were Wednesday evening to make arrange- el the only occupants. i 3 c. 19— iy is ruin- | Tents for sailing for Burope, There| ILondon, Dec. 19—‘Germany is ) & i ibility tha %l ea for senerations, politically, indus- 5 oo Txf;bw'f‘;r;‘:;p‘; s Spectal 47| trially and economically,” Dr. Walter | PRESIDENT WILSON'S fate his retirement from office of | Rathenau, vresident of fhe German CHRISTMAS PLAN® 1a1d for it during the war are dennits | through the mails and who have come i to depend on this for the things of projects of the war department. As: P - Sistant Secrotary Crowst, who 1s in |0 that make a heppy Christmas: direct charge of the disposal of all| ARGENTINE RECALLS iTS surplus war materials, sail today that there is no disposition tn abandon MINISTER TO MEXICO either of these establishments. Mexico City, Dec. 18—The Argen- The Neville Island project contem- | tine government has recalled its mini- plated te expenditude of $65,000,000 in | ter to Mexico, Manuel B. Malmran. It order to furnish new faciiities for big|was announced today that the minister gun manufacture. would leave here not sater than De- cember 21. STUDYING CANCELLATION The Mexican zovernment has re- OF WAR CONTRACTS | called Manuel Garcia Jurado, the act- |Bridgeport. Conn,, Dec. 19—Discus- | 05 ChOIES 1 SX8F, Kt Santaen sion of the best methods to pursue in| goireq is that he may acquaint the investigating the question of ~can-|yrevican government with the affairs cellation of war contracts by the com- | J*Fiea0 EOVETCR niutme!aphpol;;ted at an executive ses- el it e sion of the Manufacturers’ association of Connecticut will probably be hetd | POLISH TROOPS ARE at Hartford Saturday morning, George LANDING AT DANZIG S. Hawley of this city, chairman of| Paris, Dec. 19 (Havas).—A Warsaw the committee, stated tonight. despatch says that 'the landing of The members of the committee are| Polish troops af Danzig began yester- who address the workers did not ap- | ready have been published by the ma- 3 —~——t rine corps headquarters here. % E. O. Goss, Wateghury: J. E. Otter- | day. The Polish army is reported to ‘were expected [ more than 4,000 wcunded, which al-|son, New Haven: John Williams, | number 50,000 men. The representa- S Willis E. Hobbs, Bridge- |tive of Poland at Berlin has. laft Gare ' many. i IS trict att . General Electric Company, is' quoted . 19.—President Wilson's P e T L a8 declaring to the Berlin correspond- | present Christmas plans contemplate ASKS ADDRESS OF EVERY ont of the Daily Express. It is the|his departure from Paris on Christ= caiost calamity that has happened|mas eve for Chaumont, American. SOLDIER FROM NEW ENGLAND fi:any country in two thousand years,” | hasflquarters, on General Pershing's' . Boston, Dec. 19, — Major General|added Dr. Rathenau, who is one of|special train. On Christmas morn Clavence R. Kdwards, commander of|the largest employers of labor in Ger-|he will go by automobile to a nearby. the northeastern departme: asked | many. “If the indemnities are high|rest.camp and dine with the troops, today that the organizati and ad- | we shall have nothing with which to| returning to Paris the same night. . . dress of everv soldier fran New Eng- | expand our industries and there will be| The American ambassador, ‘William. land, those who served at home as well | a great tide of emigration, probably to| G. Sharp, as dean of the diplomatis i as those who.were Sent overseas, be|South America, the Far East and cer- | eorps, has arranged to- present all the . forwarded to his“office for the official | tainly to Russia. “The result will be|ambassadors i records. In the case of men wound- | the Balkanization of Burupe. to the French government. to ™! or gassed Gereral Bdwards wishes dent Wilson on Friday at the Murat this fact stated, together with tho| WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD . | patace. name of the place where the action TO BE DISSOLVED JAN. 1 occurred. Washington, Dee. 19.—Formal an- | FINAL REV:EWY‘;‘:.‘E"':{EAVALU = nouncement was made teday of the NIT NEXT LOAN.TO BE, ENOWN cancellation of all restriciions and or-| = New Haven, Conn. Dec. 19.—Tha AS THE “FINISHING FIFTH”| dors of the War Industries Board.ef- | final review of the Yale naval unit Boston, Deec. 19.—The Fifth Liberty | fective January 1, and the withdrawal | the S. A. T. T. C. before its demob 10an, to be launched in the spring, will 1 pledges made bv industries at|ization on Saturday, took place be knéwn in New England, at least, | the instance of the board. today when the six hundred as the “Finishing Fifth.” The name was suggested by John K. A’len of this | on January 1 was giveh scveral weeks | tral Green. in the reviewi city, dircetor of publicity for the first|ago with the resignation of Bernard M. | were Rear Admiral Coll federal reserve district, whose desig- | Baruch #s hairman and is accept- | commandant; Presiden nation of the last loan as the “Fight-|ance by President ‘Wilson, to become | Hadley of Yale and - ing Fourth” was widely adopted. effective on that date. 3 FitzGerald.