Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 29, 1919, Page 1

N Y Bulletin Service Flag Norwich VOL. LXI—NO. 60 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, & \TURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919 STORM BLOCKED TRAFFI INAND ABOUT NEW YORK Many Telegraph and Telephone Lines Were Broken—Gale Recorded Velocity of 90 Miles an Hour—Two Vessels Driven Ashore in New York Harbor—Surface Cars, Au- tomobiles and Wagons in Frequent Collision—Two | Men Were Drowned and Scores of Minor Accidents Were Reported. York, March 28 forec night h zing egraph Lusing during Relief within ast by the from the swept over the the harbor, and tele- traffic con- the winter. e that rose at time: our velocity, and los Norwegian d Oil bark So- in the harbor. £ mile off shore drowned when had not been used all winter were put in operation. On the divi- sion of the road the out from early afternoon Lue open. Treight T.anbury div n was schedule, Tanned by calekly tower at the late tonight. managed to put the switches in order before leaving the burning structure. Telegraph companies repcried wires down in the vieinity of Hartford and at Terryville and Farmiagion. The Jouthern New Englani = Telephone Company was inconvenrenced but lit- tie by the blizzard, gt was sald. In- terurban trolley traffic wr ed in several sections of the The Hartford office of t T nion Qelegriph Company ported that more than 100 ‘elegrapt poies had been blown down between Hartford and Springfield. Most of the telegraph service by vas re were keep plows t trafiic far the the hehind the the high destroyed a ra Cedar Hil The tow nd, a sw ards here operator today, in- Anna | led to were compe harbor. s of minor accidents automo- in frequent ded by the moving ve- n serious in- ate. Western onight re- underground wires, fourteen of were tugs as they five barges heir moorings s captain been | CONN. RIVER HAS RISEN 5 FEET IN Zz§ HOURS Hartford, C March 2¢ The Connecticut river tonight showed above its level of rise of fifteen feot nty-four hours agn, owing to the nd of the last two day Farmington river was over its at many places were that the Housatonic ugatuck rivers had reach: stage in the last iwer in the vicinity of Derby TRCY THREATENED RISE OF HU March 28 vhich had fal! cut «the night and snow through the day. the Hudson rose rapidly and this eveming it feared that if the sterm much longer Troy ht rience a flood similar to th Thne weather prediction t will be fair edly re: tigher. women, ea i onn., WORST STCRM OF THE SEASON IN CONNECTICUT hours Con- of W A BY “SON RIVER wn from n thro he ru autc of thirt twenty- weather Jine kb mi Seain nd Hart- runn snow plows were and TO PRESENT IRELAND'S CLAIMS AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE March 28.- 1 Walah FIVE GERMAN SUBMARINES CONVOY TO UNITED STATES ‘Whshington, March Yive rendered German submarines leave England tomorrow for the ed States manned hy Ame and Convoyed by the Ameri | marine tender Busknell. 3 expected to arrive in American ers late in April and will be di ed at ports to be ted in | tion with the next Liberty paign. | One of these craft sea-going mine layer the war planted mines alon | American coast. Two of them the UB-88 and the UB-148, regular submersibles of smaller Another is the UC small mine layers U-111, the standard German Later is expected that one | big cruiser submarines with guns, will be sent over. Adverse winds at this the unfamiliarity of the crews with the machinery date’ of th ea 1l of the certain. Crews for the were assembled in Englan, the men being sent from States, sspor artment ymer cam- the which U-117 du nd deck with the officials inform- seasor Ameri m ships submir e mis- April 2 from New statement 2 the Touran. ollowing LOANS TO RAILROADS BY WAR FINANCE CORPORATION Washington, March Advanc | by the war finance corporation to ke {the rail transportation country in operation until con can make necess appropr reached a total of nearly § | today. leven more loar nounced, amounting to $1 The Chicago, Roc cific received the la $2,800,000. The Le supplied $2,400,000, the New York tral $2,000,000 and the Chicago, wukee and St. Paul $1,6 the other loans were ven figures, follows | Central $992,000, Chesape | $800,000, Boston ana of| Wheeling and 1 of | Cleveland, Cincinnati, Ct Louis $340,000, Buffalo Pittsburgh $208,000, and Western $62,400. to France iing no al- ) any 1ed with prins to Treland, nation of the right form of hall ex- system of the ress E 5,000,000 were Island gets sum igh_ Valley nd Pa- tod: exne Irelar remain URGES AN APPELLATE COURT MARY'AL TRIEUNAL Mar ppe Maine Eric i Rochester and and O late court ,,“, the board ned in the office ral was urged dwin R. generals e special Bar 2880~ ourt Reedy d teacher Iy surprised wrmy general lled attention to had not been a American army sffense, and said 11,000 such army. LIFE SENTENCE FOR EAST ST. LOUIS NEGRO DENTIST St. Louis, Mo., March 28.—Leroy Bundy, East St. Louis negro dentist, was found guilty and ntenced to life imprisonment in the circuit court at Waterloo, Ill, this ufternoon on charge of conspiring 1o murder in con- nection with the killing of two dr\)l‘» tives in a riot in t. Loufs the night of Jul The murders are said to have the riots the following day )JAPTAINS REJECT OFFER |DUumber of negroes were ki . ol i Ten negroes previously York ar8 (DUIKINE | found guilty and are iarbor Mighter cap-|terms in the penitentia.ry a fifteen per with no change mited to tehm York Boat V. O'Con- of the union’s iring Colpne of trian N. Y. HARBOR LIGHTER led to in which a led have now been serving BOLSHEVISTS ARE CAUSING TROUBLE IN VANCOUVER Vancouver, B, C., Marct from Sydney, N W couver \\mhl today aid Renewed conflicts. betwee soldiers and members of the element e reported from ¥ rge number have lighter captains | Street fighting, including down offer, but | commissioner of police S tei bly to eject O'Con- | When the Russian club was wrecked. R Btk the & “Scores of extra police have been it brought in from the country districts,” JAPANESE OPPOSED TO teh despatch adds, “all hotels have RACIAL DISCRIMINATION been ordered closed by the authorities March (By the until conditions return to normal.” meeting of promi- Tokio tonight a res- d opposing any league of nations covenant which does in a clause abolishing racial The _resolution also to the abolition of conscription. the acquisition by Japan of the German rights on the Shantung peninsula and opposition to the inter- national labor agreement, which, it was de is not adapted to the constitution Japan and to Japans resident ion. The n eight hour day. Marine Workers' conduetnig' the to cable Van- n returned Bolshev bane, A wounded in the chief who was hurt Le Afr is t ped the no! JAPAN DECORATES THE Tuesday, March 25 A, P.)—Commander Frederick ' .J Horne, the American naval attache here, has been decorated with the Or- der of the Sacred Tr by the em- peror of Japan for “his splendid ser- vice as naval attache. Commander Horne, who will return to the United States soon, is the first American naval officer to be decorated by the Japanese government, Tokio, (By, the not cont diseriminatio urged opposition sure la lared put | interrupt- | was being carried on | Ations Michizan | a| AMERICAN NAVAL ATTACHE| Cabled Paragraphs Germans Increase Garrison at Danzig. Paris, March 28—(By The A. P.)— News was received here today that the Germans are increas'ng the gar- rson at Danzig. This is taken as in- ing an intention tu resist what- ever disposition the peace conference ruay make of the port. ORDER MADE FOR BENEFIT OF N.'H. ROAD STOCKHOLDERS New York, March 28.—Federal Judge Maver issued a supplemental state- ment today explaining his order of yés- terday in which he grantéd an exten- on until July 1, 1921, of the period in which, ufler the federal _dissolution decree against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com- pany, its trustees must dispose of se- curities in other steam, trolley and steamboat lines combined in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. | The order, Judge Mayer said, was made for the benefit of the stockhold- “whose .rights must be carefully iarded so far as possible. in view of the great losses to which they un+ doubtedly will be subjected even un- der the most favorable circumstances.” G present financial condition of country, resulting from heavy in- tment in Liberty bonds, he said, made it impossible to obtain a fair or the securities if sold imme- itely, and he was of the opinion that would “take some time hefore thera moneys in hand of a sufficiently li- character to encourage invest- in securities of this kind.” § ing of competition on_ par- which,resulted in the disso-- order, Judge Mayer pointed out, a matter of consequence at the time beca® e of the fact that are under government con- the it men Another nt factor making it advisable the extension, he said, was that in several communities officials have jurisdiction s and service matters, “there is rently a movement in the direc- 1 of a more liberal considerati | of financial requirements of uese condition, he said, enh; the value of disposed of, thereby <holders. would tend the stocks to decreasing the REVOLVER IN EVIDENCE AT MADDEN MURDER TRIAL Conn, March 28—Two offered in evidence by today in contYauing the of its case against Miller of West Haven,| Bessler, John Neuss, Fred | Michael McDonnell of N. J, on_trial charged murde William F. Mad- on January 30. s was taken from| used by the other bu cunmen and rom the body of Madden. | bullets had a peculiar prosecution claimed 1 defect in a revolver | »und near the seene of 2 the q by Hitzgerald, a fire arms ex- nt here, testified | caused by a de- | e revolver and manufac- | its beir In put- evidence, State's rn pointed out that it lated one, and the same described by Cliftol Madden's asgistant, as pointed at him by Neuss lefendants the result of omobile. r in e day nufnerous one or wit- more of points . btween n, where | sted. Lieu- of the Ho- | the arrest in Hoboken on Feb- and McDonnell be continued next o and men were v J. Kill described oon in seeing a CAUSE OF ADVANCES IN THE PRICE OF FISH | March 28 —Circumstances advances in the price of een months in 1917 and 1918 related today by N. Fulham, fish of this city, under re-direct ex- ion at ghe trial of four com- 1d twenty-six individuals on conspiring to_monopolize in New England. aid that during this Fishing company | defendants, with- fish from the New hange. the company, he sald,| their catches ashore repreesntatives of the caning up’ the inde- At the same time, to the witness, the Bay| company had men bidding at the e for fish, while boxes of fish outside its building. The he market of this bidding, m testified, was the charging extra price for the product. | were dealer | sh_industr 1am Bay one of t Fu period th {of Maine, Fish ¢ of ine | Trawler were brin 1tly pi on t | HOUSE PRAISES NORWAY AS FRIEND OF THE ENTENTE March 23—Norway was a friend of the entente by M. House when the Nor- gation on the league of was presented to him today by ourgeois, French member of the nations 4 mmission. al nation gave the entente than Norway,” Colonel the delegation. “Were not so remote from the iropean activities,” Colonel d, “that city would have ested as the seat of the f nation Paris, praised Colonel E ior Leon I 1€ No ne help told more House Christ center House of F 1ddes league |REQUEST FOR U. S. TO ASSUME MANDATORY OVER ALBANIA Washington, March 28.—Request that t United States assume a man- datory power over Albania under the league of nations has been presented the peace conference by the Al- iian delegation, it was announced here today by Constant A. Cherizi, American_representative of the Al- Federation. The aspirations the Albanians were the subject of a conference held by Mr. Cherezi today with state deparement officials. | TRIAL OF CAPTAIN EDWIN WEISGERBER COMPLETED York, March 25.--The trial of Captain Edwin Weis er, of Pitts- Lurgh charged with acts mvolving dis loyzlty to the United States, sympathy yrith Germany and improper personal ccnduct, was completed lLefore a courtmartial Governoror's Island teday. It may be two or three weeks |before the verdict is announced. New on HUNGARIAN SOVIETS ARE TO SAFEGUARD ALLIED MISSION Basle, Switzerland, March 28 (Havas)—The Hungarian Soviet au- thorities have declared themselves ready to guarantee the safe departure of the allicd missions, notably the Daring Rubtf{uf a Ban' .1 Detroit Bandits Got Awuy . With $10,000 Cash and Unreg- istered Liberty Bonds Val- ued at $65,000. Detroit, Mich,, March 28.—Herding fourteen persons, including several wo- men patrons, into the lavatory and the vault of the West Side branch of the Commonywealth State Bank here, unmasked bandits this afternoon rob- bed the institution of $10,000 in cash and unregistered Liberty bonds which officials say may exceed 365,000 1in value. Fifty thousand doiars in cur- rency had been removed from {he branch to the main office only a few hours before \the holdup, according to J. W. McCausey, president of the bank, The holdup was one of the most dar- ing in recent years. Two of,the men stood guard outside the entrance to the bank while four entered with the man at their head waving a sawed off shotgun. Charles H. Mooney, caier, and Paul Mallick, his assistant, were ordered from their cages and witk sev- 1 patrons forced to stand with up- d hands while the bani vanlt was being rifled. The two bank attache were then ordered into the vault to- gether with four of the patrors and the big steel door closed. Eight other per- sons, including several who came in after the bundits entered, and among men, each with a baby in six | |Explosion Injured 15 Enlisted Men None Seriously — At OCrd- nance Proving Groundsi at Aberdeen, Md.—Proper- ty Loss $50,000. | ‘Washington, March 28.—Fifteen men, includ: ¢, a number of enlisted men of the army, were injured by an expiosion today at the ordnance proving grounds at_Aberdeen, Md. Reports to the war department the original explosion was started b fire of undetermined original in ‘which ¢ millimeter bomb: being loaded and the concuss transmitted to other rds wit sulting property loss estimated 200 None of the men, the ment was informed, was jured. Colonel Phillips, the grounds, reported sion had been appo the fire and ex n was | re- 0.- war depart- seriously in- | commander at that a commis- ted to inv losion DENY REOPEN'NG OF NEWSPRINT PAYER HEAR Washington, March 28 —Tlic trade commission late today denied the application of new! publishing interests for reopening tion of newsprint pap prices. While holding com- | Every year you spend much for clothing. a large p furnishi; Very few are there who are so fi to get the most for their money. only to know what you want hefore can be obtained. Thisecan be quic! tion to the advertisements. They show the merchants who are enterp: Watch the adverti: of the money In the p columns, you are going to s all for two cents a day Bulletin March 22... March 24.. March 25 March 26.. March 27... March 28.. Saturday, Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, So much for shoes. garden seeds, tools and other nece One of the ng columns of st week the following matter Telegraph | i Get the Full Benefit of Your Money | I | | roportion of the money You So much for things to sities ush with it th: hes! you go to ascerts wha sing and The Bulleti nd Local General 88 102 116 76 94 84 126 108 114 28 Total her arms, the lavaio The curren big tour It was several minutes af 3 dits le<t Letore the lavatory and vou! were opened and the imprisoned ) sons released SUFFRAGISTS ENDORSE LEAGUE OF NATIONS St. Louis, March 28.—Thc National \merican Weman Suffrage Associa- tion today passed resolutions endors inz the league oy nations and urging the United States government to “bring about the prompt vedress of «1l legitimats grievances® as a uard against revoluticn Ly violence. With the adoption of a long list of resolutions the ~ conveatiy: proper practically . clused its sessions, the formal adjorrnment to be taken to- orrow ‘noon’ affer “a morning se: sion. of the league of women voters, composed of delegates from presiden- tinl suffrage states. The selection of the next convention site prchable will be left to the hoard of diraotors. Heading the list of resoiutions. was one calling upon the sixty sixth con- gress to submit the constitutional amendment for nation-wiie —woman suffrage to the seates at the earliest possible moment. OBITUARY Capt. Theodore E. Chard. Greenwich, Conn., March 28—Cap tain Theodore . Chard, former master of ocean schooners, died at his home here today of pneumonia. Since 1880 he had been assistant superintendent of the Greenv)ch Water Company. At one time he was in the oyster business. His wife, who is critically ill with pneumonia, survives him. Capt. William Dixon Burnham. Port Chester, N. Y, March 28 Captain William Dixon Burnham, a_di- rector of the American-Hawaiian Steamship company and prominent in maritime circles, died at his home here early today. He was born 71 years ago at_Litchfield, Conn. Takifig_up sea life at the age ot 14, Captain Burnham became at 21 mas- ter of a clipper which sailed all over the world. He was said to have held the_sailing record from San Francisco to Liverpool, made in the clipper ship Pactolus Captain Burnham is survived by his widow, a son, and a sister, Sar): E. Parkington of New Loridon, Conn. Bur- ial will be made at Sharon, Conn. Samuel T. Dutton. New York, March 28. —Word was re- ceived here today of the sudden death in Atlantic “ity, N. J., of Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, educator, philanthropist and worker for world peace. He was 69_years old. Tir. Dutton, who was professor em- eritus of sdministrative pedagog: in Teachers' College, Colwnbia uni- versity, had served s sceretary of ihe New York Peace society, executise secretary of the World's Court League, chairman of the executive committee of the National Arbitration . and Peace Congress, and a member of the International Commission on the Bal- kan War. Sorn in Hilisboro, N H., uated from fale and beca sively superintendent cf k and Corn,, rookline, ass, 1900 to 1915 he was professor of school acministration at Teachers' College, at the same time superintcnding the Horace Mann school. Mr. Dutton devoted much of his time during the past three vears to the work of the American Committee for Armeniar, and Syrian Relief. Te had heen suffering with - heart Haven, From French, according to a report receited here from Budapest tecuble for several months and went t) Atlantic City a week ;¢ grou here xed in ion last General 1 roduc comr Attorney had bec nce maxin witl Former M ready had ! tion in Canada Henry A. W ufacturers, argued that the could not be changed and commission formatio ing the Canadian compar reaching o In acting on the lishers, the commission did the merits of the b decision on the that it wou mean “an expenditu the dererm: nation of costs, in e Hf av appropriation, which comn cannot legally incur sut authority of congress. the | Wickersha appearing counsel for the man concern- s before case INCREASED SAFEGUARD FOR PRESIDENT WILSON Paris, March 28—(By the A Increased precautions have been ta en to safegua President Wilson and the prem with whom he is in daily conf nce. So have the plans been made that not even the chief of the merican secret service squad is informed as to when the meetings W place. | Up to the present some of the newspapers have carried in their | morning editions a schedule of the movements of President Wilson, with the result -that crowds invariably have gathered fo wtness the arrive of President Wilson and his con- ferees The time of the meeting the “White House” was not ed, and the premiers arrived ingly in a casual manner. ers care today at MILFORD WOMAN GRANTED DIVORCE; $40,000 ALIMONY | New Haven, Conn.,, March 28.—A 111-‘ vorce, with $40,000 alimony, was grant- | ed by Judge Webb in superio urt here today to Mrs. Henrietta T. H.| Bock of Milford, Conn,, from her hus- | band, Henry Anton Bock, a_wealthy| gar manufacturer. Mr Bock | charger desertion. In a hearing be-| fore a referee she declared that her husband was pro-German. The custo- dy of a 16 year old son is given to Mrs. Bock, GERMANY OBJECTS TO THE POLES LANDING AT DANZIG Amsterdam, March 28.—The Allied note to Germany demanding that Pol- ish_troops be allowed to land at Dan- 2ig declared that refusal by Germany would be regarded as a breach of the The German government replied t armistice, a Berlin _despatch says. it could not take the responsibility for permitting the Poles to land at Danzig, but was prepared to facili- | tate a landing at Stettin, Koenigs- berg, Memel or Libau. AMERICAN RAILROAD TROOPS ARRIVE ON MURMAN COAST| Archangel, March 28 (By the A. P.).| —The first detachment of American railroad troops, destined for work on| the Murman railway, have arrived on| the Murman coast. Other detachments| are expected to follow soon CREAT BRITAIN PROHIBITS THE EXPORT OF GOLD COIN London rch A order-i ccuncil issued this @ve > prohibits tile export of gold coin v bullion arywhere. | charged from jof the | canada bau | phis cha | unable to give 12 PAGE.S~95 COLU‘\/INS PRICE TWO CENTS Condensed Telegrams J. J. Stream, vice president of the Grain Corporation, resigned. Captain Kermit Roosevelt was dis- the army. Butter dropped 2 cents a pound in markets. Hawaiian House defeated the wo- man surage bill. Total strength of the Allied forces Archangel and Siberian fronts is 369,465, Secretary Baker plans to Europe April The time stay has not been determined. Czecho-Slovak mission at Washing- ton received an official denial of t report of President Mararyk's re: natoi Citizens of Dallas the Navy Department a s ire of ‘rritory (o use as a flying British military service bil through the report stage amendment in the House mons. 5 Minneapolis wheat Sour during the past week 294,449 bar sail o for Texas, offered field. passed without in of production wunte ¥Spring planting in Alberta, Canada | is estimated acr greatest_area ever at Alberta. War Finance Corporation advanced $931,000 to Western g new financing plan Canada’s railway sidering aplication of ern for renewal of Total reserve of Bank of declined £604,000 in gained 838,000 A royal order published WS H.» exportation Budget of South Africa, s for of at 2,500,000 s, the seeded committee week. Bully March from Spai the defiit £15 West Virginia Senate defeated the| proposal to tax oil from West Virginia New York Senate passed and sent to Governor Smith appropriatio 000,000 Estimated wool Alberta for this ye 1,500,600 pound L per cent over last Three men are greso, Mexico murder Osc ican, who was killed b According to the sse the former York transit lines for is clip Western under arrest Wallace, an A at Pr of newspaper La New Y have to close do *o thc can erence of Nat y may Gc\mar Gover nment, it is witl Reported W. and Bol- sheviki were sible strike of ic, N San Jose bridge, south of Parral, Canad;an War T~ Sl s t tion of wood pulp to Mexico German language newspapers were | barred from membership in the Pub- | lishers' Association of the American Press Foreign Tfanguages ‘until peace is declared.” Shipment of goods to Britain must have a the goods are of C; ome_other country ish Empire In application filed uy fruit ers of California rat oranges from alleged unreasonable was asked American credit to Eu ropean Allies | was increased to an additional loan of made to France by the partment Germans anding of G ish that inada withn grow- and and $9,000,000,000 when was De- Treasury refused neral at Danz the anded or Koengsbers. Prices for gasolene in have beer aly red & 13 cen New ins, 19 cents; 16 _cents, and Knox Franceso Quattrone, Commissioner of Italy conferred Wi Chairman the Shipping Board in getting coal to Italy Major Ira E. Hicks, izen of th y and former master, died his home in Britain at the of years Navy orders published the detail of Lieuter Cor John W. Gates to duty *“ comm: of Austro-Hungarian Sp: lato Edward De Vaiera, the Dublir permit the Acting Wash regard post- ships at Sinn Fein visited t and was ived mayor and members ur: The German admiralty says is tnace in solv- disappear- last year of collier Cy ansion House t of 1 e Wy some age. t ing ance_early the United clops Herbert A. Mever, ry of the i-terior has ition 10 accept a xas oil company. The German financial rc’egates will meet with the representatives of the Supreme Ec-nomical Council some- e during the coming week at Com- ne, forty miles northeast rly in March of naval assistant secre- nucunced ihs pesition with Faris The German financial zommission will leave Weimar for Versailles to- rorrow at noon, equipped with the lest -instractions and wvewers If hopes to arrive Saturday at noon. TWO DISTINCT SECT! 10NS OF TODAY'S CASUALTY LISTS, The following casualtie: ed by the American are report- commanding general of the Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action, died wounds, 11; wounded ee termined) 12 total 32. No Connecticut men from (de unde- named COXEY TALKS OF CALLING FOR A SECOND “ARMY” New York March 28 —“General” Jacob Sechler Cox commander of the . Coxey's army of unemployed which marched on Washinzton 1894, told the Central Federa {Union at its meeting tonight that need be he would call a secor “army”, this time of ten per cent. of the citizens of the United States, to mareh to the capital in protest in list ed if -{against national prohibition. mile | Com- | con- England | e wool- | prominent cit- | Senate Passed New Militia Law Giving Civil Authori es Power to Call Out State Guard Companies—Commit- tee of Incorporations Reported Favorably a Bill Expa.nd- ing the Rights of the Shore Line Railway Company— House Was in Session Less Thar Half an Hour, (Special to The tiariord, Marsh 38 ble weather, or us a slim session there being s of ihe members L he state banks, savings banks, trust building and loan associa- ortgage investment companies rer corporations under the of the banking department. ions, ind The 64 yorted f: of the p mmittee on military affairs re- ably on a bill that chapter blic acts of 1919 shall go > ef | the passage of the act. Senator Golden introduced a bill, un- sus n of rules authorizing es to m poropriations nemor it provided for mectlings e appropria- cent of the hat no part be expend- memor- comrittee d i 1 aliens heir first pa- The bill was cpriations re- officials as follows: Librar- more than $5,000 as yoard of con- ant librar iblic record relating to t ommitment * was recommitted to the the judiciary. Klett moved ts action stem hat the senate on the bill to pro- pensions for state ). He said the ded in the house at- » as to include the institutions, some of the indusirial school for private institutions. The dhered and Senator Klett was inted on the commitiee of confer- ‘the bill s of conven- -ir nominees it provides that made at_least: prior to the date of elee~ vention representing a po- y which at the preceding pulled at least one-half of I f the vote cast for make nominations. v asked if the bill ect the nominations of a new The succession tax as* amendments| it replied that a new par- signatures to the number f of 1 per cent. of the gov- ote could make nominations ~would be given places on the offi= e senator said there was confusion at the Tast elec- by the number of tickets It was particularly felt in where machines were used and necessary to abandon the d return to the ballot sys= citizen party polled only | ernor’s b 1x commi. tion caused nominated, amount mpl from ik DIRE THREATS CONTAINED IN AN -«NONYMOUS LETTER Conn.,, March 28 “merican toda fac-si Tmiine n ehalliE: rmina 1ch recently received by Manufacturinz company, tussian and purpoting 19 xtent of only other e r of the matic foilay oing Waterbury there are ryone of whom have ome have a few of come a terrible war will snreal on every that the reople who doliirs ard shirts them worse The pure 500 (means are dug on revolution the fae- 4,000,000 hav- eport rela- be b0 THE SENATE. explained the ported by the Rew | home . il L W. " The s w. r rril ing from I Ameri vith bombs, nor, until r could be ons existi ction. suct not and had time to Tjutant of general was made a| ey xempti Brooks s me: would & the next MAY FLY DIRIGIBLE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC ork, March The Aero N ol ica announced tonight Koppl : that i eived a cable message o I ish ministry saying P . ing an invitation to Ay ige dirigible balloons across Atlantic City in May ond Pan-American Aero- ition is in session there. addressed to Alan R. nt of the club, read: ion for British airship to Atlantic City month of May s is under ration. A further come Al municatior be made to you short= | Railway company to sell or lease, sub- | W { ject to the approval of the public utili- {ties commission, all its franchises, privil and right nerate, | tr gistribute and |ity, and all its_property | sonal, now owhed or wh after be acquired and u; | generation and A n Power sure an d that nece nend it fede ed |e restions it New of A | termi relatir of the st ed, and Se oS while th Botitha nautical T Hawley Your e on inc to ittee favorably conside | portea Mr. H 2 viey ‘stated that the British cted to attempt the trans- probably would be the R-34. They are rigid, long hty feet in dia= meter, 95 feet h and lif, about 65 tons, including their own weight. easily make the trip in t ho from Eng- dirigi Atlantic fi new R-33 or the about 700 feet to real a in the ty, to upon the acceptance of the act majority of its stockholders. The Eastern Poy | er company upon the acquisition of the rights and privileges sh and enjoy the same to the' same extent as they are now held by the e Line Electric Railway pany sub- jeet to the restrictions in the charter of the Shore Line company, and the Eastern Power company all there upon hecome a specially chartered cor | poration and shall no longer enjo | franchise rights under the provisions | of the joint Stock act except and only to the extent fhat may cessary to |enable it to enjoy the rights. The Eastern Power company is author to maintain and operate stations the generation of electricity by steam or any other means, etc. The stock of n Connecticut comp De 5,000 shares of preferred shares of common stock d to increase its stock shares and to issue bond fourth of the par value of Calends Senate petitions Nos. the Eastern Connecticu pany and from the Shor way comps ting Zoing matter we office of the 3 The committee on ba avorably vn a bill to appor fifths of the annual payme salaries, allowances and } the bank commissione company sale by a Haw | ELKS PLEDGE ASSISTANCE TO CRIPPLED SOLDIERS ans, March 28.—Co-opera= tion of Benevolent and Protective, Order of Elks with the federal bureaw of vocationa' education in the rehabili= tation .of pled soldiers was pledged the r f committee to- night at 2 special meeting held during the threc national convention of the order n here today. srand exalted ruler, the Elks intended to for discharged soldiers, terate on for I possess ew 1ce announce find educate | vocatior 1ty those ‘perma- celebration tomeor=. nd 10.600 | It is to to i 50,000 three- stock. parts of the n which Elks rganizations will ountry and participate GERMAN HIGH COURT TB PLACE EX-KAISER ON TRIAL Pari 3 Emperor Prince among high cou assembly say. I merman nd 47 from swer com- ne o (Havas) —Former. and former Crown William will be' e who will be tried whic n national 1te, Paris newspaperss eizn Minister Zime Ra he tc ed in the e- reported on_two- s made for penses of will ormer feared that it - GULL DAY IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY | and secura the - |