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1783 ' rCil 151 Kv-x i ICktiljettti r xy n - -- ' . r - - VOL LIX-NO. 307 -N 29,919 NORWICH, COtfN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917 8 PAGES 64 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, And Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut' in Proportion to the City's Population. DENT 'S POPE Refuses to Deal With Present Rulers of Germany Upon Pope Benedict's Plan PEACE MUST BE BASED Declares Peace Plan Proposed By His Holiness Would Make It Necessary to Create a Permanent Hostile Combination of Nations Against the German People Says the Object of, the War is to Free Peoples of the World From the jMenace and Actual Power -menfControlled By an , :-Cumotake the Word of the Present Rulers of Ger nanyas Guarantee of Anything That is to Endure Must Have the Assurance of the German People. Washington, Aujr. 28. President Wlleon has .rejected the popes peace rroDosaia. - In a, note despatched last night, and made public here tonight, the presi dent says that while every heart not blinded and hardened by the terrible war must be touched by the moving appeal of his holiness, it would be folly to take the path of peace he . points out, if it does not in fact lead to the goal ho proposes, f To deal with such a power as the present rule.s of Germany upon Pop Eenedicfs rl.ir, declares the president, would Involve a recuperation of the strength and renewal of the world domination of that power, now balked but not defeated after sweeping a con tinent with the blood of innocent women and children and the hopeless poor as well as of soldiers. Permanent peace must be based upon -fait;i of sll the rieoDles and upon 'justice and fairness and the common" rights of mankind, he adds, and we (cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless ex iplicitly supported by conclusive evi (Jnce of the will and purpose of the German, "people themselves as the iother paoples of the world would be ' JjLsUaedin- accepting." ... - Text of the Note. The text of the note follows: "August 27. 1917. "Ta tFTia ' Holiness, Benedlctus XV, ''Pope: "Ttt acknowledgment of the com munication of your holiness to the belligerent peoples, dated Aug. 1, 19117, the. president of the United States re quests ma to transmit the following reply: ' "Every heart that has not been "blinded and hardened by this terrible !war must be touched by this moving ppeal of his holiness, the pope, must feel the dignity and force of the hu mane and generous motives which rpromptei it, and must fervently wish rthat we might take the path of peace fhe so persuasively points out. But it jwou'd b-? folly to take it . it does not tin fact lead to the goal he proposes. JOur response must be based upon the tftern facts and upon nothing else. It jls not a mere cessation of arms he idesiresi It is a stabre and enduring peace. This agony must not be gone 'through with again and it must be a matter cf very sober judgment what will insure us against it. Substance of Pope's Plan. "His holiness in substance proposes ithat we return to the status quo ante helium and that then there be a gen eral condonation, disarmament and a concert of nations, based upon an a .ceptance of the principle of arbitra tion: that by a similar concert freedom .'of the teas 'be established; and that khe territorial claims of France and 'Italy, ths perplexing problems of the 'Balkan states and the restitution of Poland be left to each conciliatory ad-y-uertments as may , be possible in the new temper of such a peace, due regard being1 paid to .the aspirations of the peoples whose - political fortunes and affiliations will be involved. Object of This War. "It la manifest that no part of this program con be successfully c:i-r-e..l cut unless the restitution of the statue quo ante furnishes a firm and satis factory basis for it. The object of this war Is to deliver the freo peoples of the "world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military estab lishment controlled by an lrresponsi- )'e government which, naving eecretly ianned to dominate the world, pro ceeded to carry the plan out witlspnt regard either to the sacred obligations cf trcrtv or the long established prac tices an! long cherished principles lt international action and Honor; which eho?o its own time for the war; de livered -ts blow fiercely and suddenly; topped at no barrier, either of law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of "blood not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of in nocent women and children also and rf the helpless poor; and now (stands ibalked but rot defeated, trie enemy of four-fifths rf the world. This power Is not the German people. It Is the ruthless master of -the German people. It is no business, of ours how that jreat people came tinder Its control or nbrolttd with temporary zest to the domination of Hs purpose: but it Is vjr busir.pss to see to it that the his tory of the rest of the world is no longer left to its handling. Would Create Permanent Hostility. "To deal with such a power by way of peace upon the plan proposed by his holiness, the pope, would, so- far mt we can see, involve a recuperation of its etrength and a rer.ewal of its policy; would make It necessary to create a permanent hostile combina tion of nations against the German people, who are its instruments1; said would result in abandoning the new born Russia, to the intrigue, tiie mani fold subtle Interference, and the cer tain counter-revolution which would be attempted by. all the malign infiu- i acs to which the-German--govern- REJECTS PROPOSALS UPON FAITH OF PEOPLES of a Vast Military. Establish Irresponsible Government ment has of late accustomed the world Can peace be baeed upon a restitution of its power ,or upon any word of honor it could pledge in a treaty of settlement and accommodation ? Peace Rests Upon Rights of Peoples. "Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see. if they never saw be fore, that no peace can rest securely upon political or economic restrictions meant to benefit some nations and cripple or embarrass others, upon vin dictive action of any sort, or any kind of sevenge or deliberate injury. The American people have suffered intol era-ble wrongs at the hands of the im perial German government, but they desire no reprisal upon the German people, who have themselves suffered all things in this war, which thy did not choose. They believe that peace snouia rest upon the rlghte, of peoples, not the rights of governments the rights of peoples great or small, weak or powerful their equal right to free dom and security and self-government and to a participation upon fair terms in the economic opportunities or the world the German people of course included, if they will accept equality and not seek domination. Test Which Must Be Applied. "The test, therefore, of every plan of peace is this: Is it based unon the faith of all the peoples involved or merely upon the word of an ambitious and intriguing governments on the one nana, ana or a group of free peoples, on the other? This is a test which goes to the root of the matter, and it is the test which must be applied. Purposes of the War. "The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world to every people to whom the truth bas been permitted to com. They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furi ous and brutal power of the imperial German government ought to be re paired, tut not at the expense of the sovereignty of any people rather a vindication of the sovereignty both of those thit are weak and those that are sirong. j-unitive aamages, the dis memberment of-empires, the establish ment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues, we deem inexpedient and ia the end worse than futile, no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind. Cannot Take the Word of the Present Rulers of Germany. "We oennot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guar antee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by sue conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people them selves aj the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting. With out such guarantees, treaties of settle ment, agreements for disarmament, covenants to set up arbitration in the place of force, territorial adjustment, reconstitutions of small nations, if made with the German government, no man. -no nntlnn A j - - - ' " . . . ucpriiu un. w e mu3t await some new evidence of purposes or trie great peoples of the central powers. N God grant it may be given soon and In a way to restore the confidence of all peoples every where in the faith of nations and the possibility of a covenanted peace. "ROBERT LANSING, . "Secretary of State. Of th.j United States of Amerac." HOW REJECTION IS REGARDED IN WASHINGTON. Belief Prevails That President Wilson is Spokesman for Allies. Washington, Aug. 28. President Wilson s rejection of the pope's peace proposals is regarded here as the hi.-jh water mark of the war. Furthermore; it is indicative of the virtual selection of the president by the allies as their spokesman before the world The note cornea as a climax to the remarkable series of state documents in which President Wilson has argued the cause of world democracy against autocracy in the high court of public opinion, and accepted more and more by the people of all the allied coun tries as expressing their ideals. There appears to be no doubt that the United States was selected to make answer before the world, in ad vance of all the other states. Whether the entente nations will send extensive replies is not known here. It is re garded as probable that they will jn large measure adopt the president's reasonlner nr ifheir- sirc. qt, - " ii ufiv ojiu xiuiea or endorsement. No Inkling of Forceful Terms. i, .... ........ VM u looiucjiia reply lia-I been anticipated everywhere. Kiii. ixitfie woo xiu injiiinK ui xiie rorca ful term lie would employ to say that the world can have no faith in the au- fitujaeB.tsodij5lomacy eee Llnhisjfle I Se- Cabled Paragraphs British Casualties for Week. London, Aug-. 28. British casualties reported in the week ending: today were as follows: Haired or died of wounds: officers 218; men 2,421. The wounded or missing:: officers 790 men 10,902. American Aviator Dies in Paris. Paris, Aug. 28. H. Norman Grieb of New York died Sunday of pneumonia, following' injuries received at the avi ation school. Grieb was 22 years old and a Yale undergraduate .of the class or 1918. LABOR CONDITIONS IN NORTHWEST ARE IMPROVING No ew Disturbances Are Contemplated by the I. W. W. Washington, Aug. 28. Threatened labor disturbances in war industries on the Pacific, coast and in the north west have passed their climax, ofH cials declared today, and conditions are rapidly improving. Reports to the departments of la bor and justice indicated that disaf fection exists among the ranks of the Industrial Workers of the Worlds and that the organiatlon may soon face internal strife. The drastic action taken by the government to suppress the threatened general I. W. W. strike at Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, August 21, officials said, had a discouraging effect on the organi atlon leaders and so far as could be ascertained no new labor disturbances are contemplated by the organization. nunciation of the military autdtrapy a fresh appeal to the war-ridden Ger man people to throw off their military masters and join democracy with a government fit to deal with the re mainder of the world. Although this appeal probably will not be permitted to become known in Germany until the autocracy has at tempted to mold the temper of the people for its reception by denuncia tion through a government -controlled press of what has been characterized as Interference in the internal affairs of .Germany, the hope is that it will fall on fertile soil. Considering the extraordinary char acter of the president's communica tion, its immense importance definite ly terminating for the present at least all efforts to reach a compromise peace, and the assured fact that it represents the views of all of the en tente allied powers joined with Amer ica in the war against Germany, the time consumed in the preparation of the reply, was remarkably short. Reply Courteous But Firm. That the president's response to the pope's overtures would be a courteous but firm declination had been gener ally believed, so that in this respect at least his communication will cause no surprise. The feature-that Is ct-r- tain to fix public attentio l is the cold determination not even to permit the subject of peace negotiations to be broache.l so long as the evil and dom inating forces of autocracy and mili tarism control the central powers. It is not even necessary to read between the lines of the president's response to see clearly apparent trie inflexible purpose. No Effort to Evade Responsibility. For this reason the president was not to be led into any discussion of the peace conditions detailed by Pope Benedict, though that field was made alluring by the pontiff's adoption of some of the proposals la'd down by President Wilson himself in early ut terances. On the other hand, there was no effort to evade responsibility for an expression of view as to the bases of sound and enduring peace, for the presidents response in its con cluding paragraphs state the purpose for whict America entered the great war. The Radical Differences. The radical difference that appears to exist between the pope and the president touches this very matter of stable and endu-nng peace. The pontiff looks to the restoration of con ditions as they existed before the war; the president turns his bach, upon these, convinced that a return to the status quo ante bellum could never bring permanent peace, which can be secured only by agreement between free peoples on both sides. As one official commenting, expressed it, the president's response, reflecting as it does the views of the entente allies, sounds the doom of Hoherrzollernism and military domination of peoples. That this can and should be accom plished without the destruction of the German people is one of the striking expressions in the presidents note, when he expressly disclaims any in tent to seek punitive damages and the dismemberment of empires- or even the punishment of the central powers af ter the war by gigantic economic com binations against them. Aimed 'to Geach German People. This shaft is aimed straight over the heads of the army-controlled German foreign cilice at the understanding and appreciation of the German people, al ready manifesting many signs of a determination to assert their right to govern themselves by parliamentary methods. It is assumed here that there will follow a fierce outburst of denunciation against the attempt from the outside to dictate to the German people their form of government. But it is also believed that as the hard ships of war and misgovernment bear with eve.--increasing severity upon the German people, they must in the end throw off their military masters and take in their own hands through a representative government the con duct of negotiations looking to a fair and honorable and permanent peace. Active Exchanges With Entente Powers. Active exchanges have, been in progress between the president, Sec retary Iansing and the entente pow ers, mainly through the American diplomatic representatives abroad, re garding the answer to be made to the pope's proposals ever since these were delivered to the various foreign Offices. It seemed by common consent that to America was confided the heavy re sponsibility of' framing and delivering the first of the replies. The propriety of this course was apparent from tke consideration of tb fact that every one of the entente premiers and for eign ministers who had spoken pub licly on the subject of peace had turn ed to the language of .President Wil son's historic address; to congress and his other public utterances on the sub ject as disclosing their own concep tions of the proper bases of peace ne gotiations. And evn more potent than this consideration was the i i l Mi tioi that America, was best fitted of all nations to deal what it was hoped would bo the death blow to autocracyLred in her home and told the police of the Germanio type. 33 1-3 Per Cent Tax Levy on War Profits AGREED UPON BY SENATE Fl- NANCE COMMITTEE TO - RAISE $850,000,000 Effort Will Be Made to Head Off More Drastic Increases Senate Killed Provision Postage. for Increase in Letter Washington, Aug. 27. Senate fi nance committee leaders, recognizing the growing demand for heavier tax ation on war profits, tentatively draft ed at private conferences today amendments to the war tax bill de signed to increase the gross levy on this source from 26 per cent, to about 93 1-3 per cent, and the revenue to be derived from $562,000,000 to about $350,000,000. These will be offered in an effort to head off more drastic increases advocated by Senators Johnson of California, La Fbllette, Borah and others. Leaders Are Confident. Leaders of the so-called conserva tives confidently predicted that they would muster sufficient strength to insure adoption of a compromise. Sup porters of the higher rates were equal ly as sure that they wou'd make the levy not less than fifty per cent. - No Increase on Letter Postage. During the day fhen the senate struck out provisions for one cent in crease in letter postage and arranged to dispose of publishers' tax features tomorrow. Senator Hardwick's motion to elim inate th letter postage tax was adopted 99 to 29. and the senate spent the rest of the day debating the pro posals for increases in second class mail rates and a 5 per cent, special tax on publishers' incomes. In elimi nating taxes on first class mail, ;i provision was retained for free post age on letters mailed by, American soldiers abroad. La Follette on War Profits. During the debate Senator La Fol lette presented his plans for taxing war profits. He introduced eisrht amendments proposing to take from 16 to 48 per cent." of war profits in tending to offer the maximum first and, if rejected, the others Jn order, downward RESOLUTIONS ADOPTLD BY A. F. OF CATHOLIC SOCIETIES One Protests Against the Irreligious Tyranny in Mexico. v . Kansas City. Mo.. Aug. 28. A reso lution protesting against the "irrelig ious tyranny masquerading under the name of democratic government in Mexico" and urging that the United States withhold any loan "until such iniquitous laws are repealed and re ligion made free," was adopted here late today by the convention of the American Federation of Catholic So cieties. Resolutions "acclaiming" the peace proposal of Pope Benedict and reaf firming the loyalty of the Catholics of the United States were adopted. The convention also adopted a resolution providing for the appointment of a ommittee of five to represent flhe federation in co-operating with the National Catholic War Council, being formed for the purpose of assisting the government in carrying on the war against Germany. Other resolutions adopted provide for a federation fund of $100,000 for organization and social and moral pro paganda work; the establishment of Catholic night schools for aliens and the suppression of plays, motion pic tures and literature tending to belittle marriage. Fair play and justice to ne groes also was urged. The federation adopted the so-call ed diocesan plan, which enrolls the members by diocese instead of by county and state, and brings into af filiation all smaller Catholic socie ties. The plan provides for changing the name of the federation to the Ca tholic Federation of the United States. A committee composed of Bishop Jo seph Bush, St. Cloud, Minn.: the Rev. John F. Brook, Corey. Pa.; Benedict Elder. Louisville, Ky.; William Hek e.nkamp, Juincy, Ills., and Anthony Matre, Chicago, was appointed to work out the details of the reorgani zation plan. , The following were appointed a committee to co-operate with the Na tional War Council: Monslgnor M. J. Splaine. Boston: Monsignor J. P. O'Connell. Toledo, O.: John J. Hines; Buffalo, N. T. ; Charles I. Denechand, Xew Orleans, and John Whalen, New Tork. CHARGED WITH THEFT OF VALUABLE JEWELRY. William Maloney, a Former Sergeant in N. Y. National Guard. Lakevllle, Conn., Aug. 28. William Malonep, a former sergeant of Com pany F, Twelfth infantry. New York National guard, arrested here today, charged with robbing Mrs. Carrie Ru benstein in New York of much valua ble jewelry, was not taken back to New Yorft city this afternoon as plan ned, but New York officers who have him in custody will await the arrival of an Inspector. Maloney was arrested here when he visited the town, coming from a camp near Canaan. He protested that he was innocent of the charge brought against him. FOUND JEWELRY UNDER FLOOR OF HIS ROOM. New York Police Believe Maloney Was Implicated in $35,000 Jewelry Theft. New York, Aug. 28. Witii the arrest today of William Maloney. a former sergeant of Company F, Twelfth in fantry. New York National guard, on a farm near East Canaan Conn., the police believe they have found one of the men alleged to have stolen $35,000 worth of Jewelry from the home of Mrs. Carrie Rnbensfcein in this city on June 12. The police said they found the Jewelry under the floor of Malo ney'e room in the farmhouse. Mrs. Rubenstein was found bound and gae- two men had robbed Enlisted Men May Win Commission s OFFICERS' SCHOOL AT EACH DI VISIONAL CAMP FOR MEN FROM RANKS No More Officers Are to Be Taken From Civil Life After Second Series of Officers' Training Camps Has Been Completed. Washington, Aug. 28. Enlisted men of the national army, national guard and regular army will be given ev ery opportunity to fit themselves for commissions, it was learned today. This is in line with the policy to take no more officers from civil life after the second series of officers training camps has been completed. Officers' School at Divisional Camps. It has been virtually decided to es tablish an officers', school at each of the divisional training camps. Men from the ranks who show special qualifications will be sent to these schools. The divisional officers' camps will make the third series of such camps arranged by the war department to provide men to command the enor mous forces being raised for the war. No commissions will be granted men from civil life after they are started except that a few who were denied admission to other camps through loss of - their orders in the mail may be given an opportunity. Army Only for Duration of War. Secretary Baker pointed out today-, in reply . to a question as to whether the European divisional army organi zation adopted for the war would be continued after Wie restoration of peace, that with the exception of the officers of the regular army and a few men of the old regular enlisted force, whose enlistments may not have ex pired at that time, the entire war ar my will pass out of existence. There is no provision of law for continuing it beyond the end of the war. The juestion of establishing a continuing military policy of universal service has been debated to some extent re cently. The Impression prevails among many members of congress, however, that it would be unwise to take up this question now. If the war is lorg it may become necessary to provide for the registration of new classes which reach the military ase of the selective service bill each year and possibly, also to exempt men now registered but who may pass beyond the maximum age limit before the war ends. CONDITIONS IN CAMP OF 24TH INFANTRY Testimony That Numbers of Negro Wo men Spent Nights in the Camp Houston, Texas, Aug. 28. Testimony about conditions in the camp of the 24th Infantry, negro, before 100 of the men shot up the west end of Houston last Thursday night was given at the investigation . begun by the city board of inquiry today. Major K. S. .Snow, commander of the negroes, appeared before the board, but said that without the consent of Major General George Ball. Jr.. com manding, he could not testify. The board permitted the major to retire. The testimony largely concerned the visits of negro women to the negro camps. W. S. Green, who was em ployed at night near the camp, sai-l hat as soon as night fell, numbers of negro women ocked to the camp. Many times at daybreak, he said, au tomobiles came out and took the negro women away. Frank A. Shaffer said that he saw women passed in freely and out of the camp, some being from a dance hall nearby. O. J. Charboneau, a street car con ductor, told of negro soldiers entering his car. taking down "Jim Crow" signs and pushing whites from their seats. W. D. Dunman. a policeman, said he saw a "great number" of whiskey bottles in the grass and weeds. Dunman added that a man who said he was Major Snow, said to him the night of the disturbances, "Don't go in the camp, you will be going to your death. I would not go there myself." The board of inquiry Is. without power to take action looking toward punishment of the negro soldiers. TRIAL OF TOWLE AND HYDE AT MERIDEN Two Boston Men Who Are Charged With Theft of Papers. Meriden, Conn., Aug. 28. Frederick L. Thieme, a former foreman of the J. D. Bergen company, was the all day witness in police court today in the case against John V. Towe and Ralph K. Hydfe of Boston, who are charged with theft of papers valua ble in .a case now before the bankruptcy court from the lo cal plant. Thieme told how the books and paper were delivered to Towle and Hyde by W. H. Pooley, whom he testified received $500 for the act. He testified that Towle asked him how Pooley could be gotten hold of and witness said if the right man went after him he "could be gotten.! Towle then told Thieme he was the best man to go after Pooley and he promised to pay all expenses. Thieme said lie agreed to do Towle's bidding. Testimony in the case will cover sev eral dates. JUDGE ATTACKED IN CORRIDOR OF COURT After He Had Appeared as Witness Against Anti-Jewlshr Speaker. New Tork, Aug. 28. Municipal Judga Leonard A. Snitkln was attack ed in the corrMor of the men's night court building here tonight by a crowd, of men after he had appesjed as complaining witness ' against Rus stfl .Durm, arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct while making an antl-Jedlsn speech In Madison Skruare Saturday. . Two men were arrested in connection wlthvtbe. attack. Dunn had been sentenced to thir ty days m the workhouse by Magis trate McQuade and JiwJge.fh-iitkln was making his way to the street when several men struck him In the face before detectives rescued him. The assailants fled and the police were able to stop only two of them. Condensed Telegrams A threatened ice shortage may cause the elimination of ice in highballs. Sigfried Sonnack, an interned Ger man at the Hot Springs, X. C, camp, escaped. The Canadian casuality list is un usually heavy for the week, with the total killed 1,000. .Henry Ford is in favor of the Gov ernment taking 95 per .cent, of excess war profits. A division of war dogs, numbering 1 000, is to be sent by the United .States to France. Washington decreed that New York firemen and policemen are not exempt from the draft. The 24th Infantry arrived at Colum bus. N. M., 'from Houston, Tex., in charge of J. H. Bradford, Jr. Major-General Carter came out of retirement to take command of the central department, of the army. The huge plant of the Midvale Steel Co., at Philadelphia, will manufacture shells for destroyers only. Justices of the peace are exempt from draft under a ruling just an nounced by Provost Marshal Crowder. Orders to transfer a large number of Germans, held at Ellis Island, to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, were received. The officers' reserve camps at Fort Myer and at Fort Oglethorpe have be gun their second course of training. Harold Barnwell, pioneer airplano builder, was killed while testing a ma chine for the Vickers company in London. Sergt. Walter Lovell of the Lafa yette Flying Squadron forced a Gor man airman to land after a thrilling fight. Live hogs have brought the record Price of $19 at Calgary. Ala., yards. Six out of 12 carloads were sold at this plice. A catalogue from the Harvard Bul letin .shows that about 5 400 Harvard graduates and undergraduates are do ing some war work. Dr. Du Bouchet, former chief sur geon of the American Amhulanre was commissioned a major in the United States army. A French organization composed of descendants of men who fouKht inthe Revolution will embroider 10 flags for American regiments. Harold Klume, a printer, nearly struck a tugboat in the Krast Kivcr when he leaped from the Hi-ooklyn Bridge, attempting suicide. The Navy League will ship ,100 complete comfort kits to the contin gent of ambulance drivers called to immediate service in Fran,e. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is to receive $1.098. flSfl in cash from the estate 'of Harris P.. Dick. The value of the estate is $61,532.19S. British naval aviators made a suc cessful raid on the airdome of the St. Denis Western in T-Selgium. All tfte machines are safe except one. Donald B. MacMillan, the Arctic ex plorer, announces the discovery of an enormous new glacier and has named it American Museum Glacier. The Administration has evidence that the German Government plotted to attack this country after heir vic tories in France and England. Twenty-two Mexican laborers were deported from the Orange county sugar beet fields of California after they tried to stir up their fellow lab orers. William A. Brady was re-elected president of the National Associa tion of Motion T'cture Industry at a meeting "of the board of directors in New York. The American Railroad of Porto Rico has ordered three consolidation type locomotives. weighing 83.000 pounds, from the American locomo tive Co. A plot to drive all soldiers and negroes from the coal mines at Lex ington Ky.. was revealed. After a clash troops and miners were quieted down. Film manufacturers and distributors throughout the T'nited Stages have volunteered to provide motion picture entertainments for the American sol diers in France. ' For the week ended Aug. 24, the Atchison Toneka & Santa Fe Rail way handled 31 162 cars as compared with 32 43D last year and 25,168 two years ago. The Red Cross announced the crea tion of a. transportation service to handle the vast supplies heing shipped almost daily to the persons in the war countries. Janan is willinq to let the Fnited States use her shipyards to build bot toms to be used in Atlantic or Pacific tarde in return for the relaxation of the steel embargo. Governor Burnquist yesterday is sued a proclamaation prohibiting the People's Council of America for Dem ocracy and Peace from hold.ing their proposed meeting In Minneapolis or elsewhere In Minnesota. William J. Kennedy, of the firm of Kennedy. Mitchell & Co., Xew York, was arrested at Havana as he stepped from a ship. He is wanted by the Xew York authorities. Alexander Legge, manager of the In ternational Harvester Co., was ap pointed assistant to B. M. Baruch In the work of purchasing materials for the United States and Allies. William T- Noonan, president, and E. F. Robinson, general manager of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts burgh railroad, said that reports of a general strike in the engineering de partment of the road were unfounded. The name of William R. Hearst will lead the democratic candidates for mayor of Xew York on the municipal ballot or tne coming primary election, it was announced after candidates' names had been drawn from the wheel by the board of elections. . TRIAN The Italians Are the Aggressors, With Austrian: Strongly On the Defense NEW POSITIONS HAVE In the Verdun Sector, in France, the Germans Have C a?f1 Entirely Their Counter-Attacks Against the Newly Won French Positions Bad Weather is Interfering With Ac tivities in Flanders On the Frontier of Bessarabia, in Eastern Bukowina, the Russian Troops Again Are Showing Signs of Disaffection, and Have Quit Their Trenches and Retreated East In Northern Russia No Fighting of Importance is Taking Place. The fighting fronts, except In the A ustro-Iialian theatre and in eastern 'nukowin.il and southern Moldavia, show a remarkable abatement in the violence of the fighting that has been going on for several weeks. Along the front in Flanders and northern France held by the British bad weather again has set in and aside from riciproeal bombardments, which at some points have rearhed the stage of drumfire, and minor infantry opera tions on. the part of the British, little Js being done by either of the belllner ients. In the Verdun sector the Germans have ceased entirely the'r counter attacks - gainst the newly-won French positions, evidently having found that the task of trying to rehabilitate themselves was useless. On the Rainsizza plateau, north of Oorizia, the Italians and Anstrians are still engaged in furious battle, with the Italians the apgressors. but with the Anstrians strongly on the defense. Xew positions have been won by (Jen era 1 Cadorna's forces and heavy Aus trian attacks to retrieve lost ground have been successfully rcpulserV. Si lence i3 still maintained hv the Rome M'ADOO ENLIGHTENS MEMBERS OF HOUSE About Transfer of Monies to Entente Nations. Washington, Aug. 2R Threats of some republican members (if the housr to oppose further appropriations for allied loans unless they were enlight ened regarding details of the transfer of monies already authorized, caused their leaders on the ways and means committee to question Seeretary Mc Adoo on this point today for more trin three hours behind closed doors. The leaders emerged satisfied with the secretary.'s frankness, though sti;i contending that greater assurances of money being spent in the United State.3 should be required. Kfforts were .being mad" tonight by some of the committee men to induce Democratic Leader Kitehin to call others before the committee to tes tify. -Mr. McAdoo will be recalled tomor row to answer further questions and to discuss the terms of the $ll,."ins, !i4i,460 bond and certificate bill. The secretary touched on the bill todav, his outstanding statement beintr tiiat it is absolutely necessary that the $4, 000,000,000 worth of bonds to finance another allied loan should be voted as quickly as possible. -Approximately $"00,000,000 monthly l. needed from this country to carry the allies' ram paign to July 1, be said, and while money is in sight to last until November 1. after that it will b nec essary to turn to the proposed new authorization for funds.- The secretary's bond taxation plan, which contemplates levying supertaxes and war profits and exeeess profits taxes on the $7.53S,943,460 worth of bonds proposed in the bill, was sub jected to a hot fire. The chief objection was that It would discriminate against the bond holders andopen the way for tax dodging. 1 Some members proposed that half of the issue should he made four per cent, subject to taxation and the oth er half should be non -taxable three and a half per cents. Opposition also developed to the plan for authorizing Secretary McAdoo to fix the life of the bonds and the interest rate on the proposed $2,000,000,000 certificate is sue. The house adjourned today until Thursday with a view to reeeiving the bill from the committee that day and pushing it through for a vote Friday or Saturday. HOLDS CONDUCTOR AND MOTORMAN LIABLE Finding of Deputy Coroner as to the North Branford Trolley Wreck. New Haven, Conn., Aug. 28 Wes ley Negus, motorman, and William J. Tryon. conductor, of the Shore Line Electric Railway trolley ra which crashed into a car from Xe-.'- Haven, on August 20, at Xorth branford, nineteen persons being killed, were held directly and criminally respon sible for the disaster by Deputy Cor oner Kenneth Wynne today. Tryon was asleep In the car. and -Negus. In a perior of mental abstraction, ran his car through, a switch and, with undiminished speed, on to the track over w-hich the car from New Haven was approaching. The deputy cor oner says both men knew their for had to take the North Branford switch and the conductor's neglect and the motorman's carelessness produced a terrible result. Negus, moreover, had fastened down a safety device on the controller, knowing that he was vio lating a rule by so doing. Both men have been under arrest on a coroner's order. Count O.kuma, the former Japanese Premier, is reported seriously ill. ATT LE OK FROM! BEEN WON BY ITALIANS war office concerning th r,pra'!'-n on the Carso plateau. An Aur: ;n official communication d.itM Sir'.'i; the first reelved-from Ve jna for -eral day, acknowledges the rnp"jre ! y the Italians of Monte Santo, hut ff.n the position was evacuated, hv t:. Anstrians Friday nirht without far ing. n the frontier of R"Miralil,t in eastern Bukowina the p.u.Hiar, trior again p showing si?ns of il!fsfc:i r, having near F.oyany rl'-Iiberarej v rr their trenches and ret rea f ! iff, rh Austro-Oermans taking t;, tr-i-" they rjmtted. Nqr N'ovufllrj. a!o on ifhe T.essarabian frr.nrler. th T"': tonie allies have b-r'in an oT-;' ! against the Russians and hnvc - v- -tttred everal positions. In lower Jto. davla In the region of Fok.han!, F.''! Marshal von Maekensen's army hsi taken helEht positions from t r. F: i -manian. In northern nusMa no f!ph,i"g Importance Is taking plac, evM-r-:y indieatlng that the 0rm'.n ,fri:-. ' east of Riga was n -it the for runner of a strong attempt to -ap!ir Russian r,eaport and naval ha on f' llaltie. GERMANY HAS REPLIED TO ARGENTINA'S NOTE Is Willing to Modify Her Bfoctji-lo ( of Enemy Coasts. Buenos Aires, Autr. 2.- rterma-v'M reply to Argentina's note em'- 'l r demands in connection with th-- - -marine campaign as affeetintr .'- . tine shipping has ..,-n rre-.e . official circles it Mated t ia t leply was satisfactory. According t. the newnpspT 1 .a FTa -yon the German note me t 4 an fh-. mands of Argentina. The note sa s that German" "ii ' r !er to maintain frlendlv re!..r.nn -..-( h Argentina is willing to ni'.'i: v h blockade of enemy roas, .'('!'," freedom of the s as to w .'-te'; rU r the Argentina flag enrrvln fr " The note also promise the ;,' -r.r-of an Indemnity for 'he s nk - if the Argentine steamer Toto hv a C r man submarine. This indemnity Is to be by German and Argentine ers. , The note was reeve4 hv ernment last niifht. The for ister and President Irlgoy a f.t.i the rn"- -ifn if 1 n fir this morning conferring rone... -ing the note, which probably wl.l hi given out for publication f.ffl (;,;:. to morrow. Both the foreifrn ml"lftr an1 'hn president were outspoken in their in dignation today that an fnim..- o- r f the contents r.f th- rote -va p: an afternoon n'rsp p'f Nv Court 0-1 Luxburg, the German mini tor, t.--fore It was made public hv the Ar gentine government. SHIPPING BOARD LETS TWO FOREIGN SHIPS O With the Understandinri That It 'M Not Set a Precedent. Washington, Aog. ;i. Arr.er need Is th con? Mt itio 1 -at fc'Uide President Wilson In h, o1. low as to the ftnal illvr.nt i.,. I r -- eign merchant Vfss: b'tfo'in:? t-i United States thinrnrrto reason. it was aid today, the que. may not he necirlr-l for some ' Since itlLrn ta r r. m ., mate of the country's ronnnr-e f o ments. The shlrr!f V. r.o r 1 - 1 . . foreign vessels lust completed one to th Utitrsh and one t , French irni-prnment ... ' f 1, .... standing that their release wr: st a precedent. The rMns ha-1 built for Prftlsh and Frerv h in'o Drill Il.ll I.ann iA T" . . . commandeered by the emerpo;(r v corporation tust Roiq the r their completion. It was d'-rid the RvlHaVl onA T.- V, , - .1 . . time are greater thnn this cur 'rv'; TEN MORE APRESTS OF WOMEN AT WHITE HOUSE Six of Them Were tVie Banner Car riers Out en Bail. Washington, Aug. 5). Ten wr,m carrying banners of nufTng fiki ar.d extracts from PreldTt 't'l'i-.i speeches were arrested Tnte Ofl iv I front of th White lo''"te , them were the bnn:ir cnrrle-n ; r bond pending appa'.i rr: -n f 1 if -; day from police e-urt pt.-'iin ' fines or thlrtv days !:i 'ail In; o t for a slmllfir dmot -nf' n A'' i-- balled to appear tomorrow tir ' hi!. Canadian Conscription Bill Sl-jr.ert. Toronto, Aug. 2. Th ml'tair con scription bill for th ivrmlon of Canada beenme a 'aw wiim It -. signed by the govvrnor-g'nrl hcr today. , The bill was bro u-ht from Ottawa by special messenger.