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VOL LIX. NO. 359
POPULATION 29,919
NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1917
TEN PAGES 76 COLUMNS
PRICE TWO CENTS
ITALIANS FORCED
BACK
German and Austro-Hungarian Troops Are Operating
Fast in Endeavor to Crush
ITALIAN LEADER REPORTS TEUTONS CHECKED
Cadorna Says That All Movements Ordered by the General
Staff Are Being Carried
the Italians Are Checking
Plain Great Britain and
Aid the Italians The Teutonic Allied Offensive is Said
to Have Unified Parties
, Withdraw From the Russian Front.
From the head of the Gulf of Triest
northward along the Isonzo front to
beyond Tolmino and thence westward
through the Carole Alps region to the
Ploecken Pass, farming the eastern
. and northeastern boundaries of the
' Austro-Italian war front, the Germans
and Austro-Huwgarian troops are op?
- era ting fast and strongly against the
; Italians in an endeavor to crush the
forces of General Cadorna.
Already the enemy, according: to the
German official communication, is
standing before the town of Udine, the
former grand headquarters of the
Italian army, having driven on past
Cividale. In the press westward from
Gorizia he has captured the town of
Cormons, ten miles southeast of TTdine
aad the entire Italian line southward
to the head of the Adriatic Is reported
to be in retreat.
In addition to the wedges driven In
to the Italian front on the east and
northeast, the Teutonic allies . have
started a third wedge In the north
through the Ploecken pass, their hope
evidently being to -cut off the retreat
of the greater portion of General Ca
dorna'a armies moving west and
southwest. The Italian commander
" in-chief, however, reports that his
men are checking the advance in this
region. Evidently the weakness
among the Italians has been entirely
overcome, as Cadorna says that all
movements ordered by the general
tit aft now are being carried out in reg
ular order and thathe Italians . are
fulfilling their duty '"by ' keeping "Tri '
check the enemy's advance Into the
plains."
Meantime in order to aid the Ital
SOUTHERN PINE LUMBER
FOR SHIP TIMBERS
To
Be Furnished as Fast as Needed
by Producers.
"Washington, Oct. 29. Southern pine
lumber producers at a conference here
today with shipping board officials
gave assurance that they will furnish
ebip timbers for the wooden ship
building programme as fast as needed
by building concerns. The shipping
.board had threatened to take over and
operate lumber mills unless timber
was forthcoming In more liberal quan
tlties.
Delays In delivery of timber, it is
declared, have seriously hampered
wooden shipbuilding operations along
she Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Ship
ping board officials blame the build'
ftrs, however, as well as the timber
producers. Inexperienced construe
tors, in many instances, it is declared.
have laid down keels for too many
Ships instead of proceeding with the
construction of a few at a time. This
Is said to have made it hard for the
lumber men to meet their require
ments.
On the other hand, the lumber pro
ducers, it is claimed, have shipped ma
terial to fill private eontacts ahead
of government orders because of high
er prices paid.
FIRST GERMAN PRISONER
OF WAR TAKEN BY AMERICANS
Died in an American Field Hospital-
Shot in No Man's Land.
With the American Army in France,
Oct. 29 (By Tho Associated Press).
The first German prisoner of war
taken by the American expeditionary
forces died today in an American field
hospital, having been shot when he
encountered an American patrol in No
Man's Land in front of the American
trenches.
He. with another German, was dis
covered Saturday night by the patrol
and was called upon to halt. The
Germans ran, the patrol fired and one
of the enemy was hit. The prisoner
was treated at a dressing station and
removed to a field hospital, where the
combined efforts of several surgeons
failed to save his life.
The prisoner was a mail carrier and
letters of some value were found on
him. He explained his presence near
the American trenches, saying he had
lost his way in the darJt. He declared
that the German soldiers did not know
that Americans were on the front in
tS-ance. The officers tell them noth
ing. -
UNLOADING FACILITIES AT
FRENCH PORTS IMPROVED.
Will Greatly Aid the Transport of Sup.
plies to American Troops.
Washington, Oct. 29. The statement
tof Captain Andre Tardieu, head of the
special French high commission, that
the unloading facilities of French pdrts
have been so improved as to enable
discharge of the cargo of a 5,000-ton
hip in eight days is regarded as of
tremendous importance to the Ameri
can army transport of supplies to the
troops at the front and to the- Red
Cross and other agencies sending vast
quantities of material to the civil pop
ulation. General Gonzales Has Not Rebelled.
Mexico City, Oct. 29. Gen. Porfirlo
Gonzales, who recently was reported to
hRve rebelled against the government
at Aldamaai near - the Tamaullpas
!Neuvo Leon boundary, arrived here
today. He denied that he had been in
frrma against the government.
TO UDINE
Forces of Gen. Cadorna
Out in Regular Order and That
Enemy's Advance Into the
France are Sending Troops to
in Italy Germans Continue to
ians in their hour of trouble. Great
Britain and 'France are preparing to
lend immediate aid and the possibility
is that already troops are being hast
ened across the western Italian fron
tier and by way of Turin and (Milan
to the battle front in the east.
As a result of the Teutonic allied
offensive internal conditions in Italy
are declared to have been unified, the
preponderating idea of the entire pop
ulation now being to abolish party
lines in order to meet the situation in
the best interests of the country. Even
the cabinet crisis is expected to be
solved with comparatively few
changes in portfolios.
On the western front in France and
Belgium little fighting has taken place
except in the nature of bombardments,
although on the "Verdun front the Ger
mans in an attack near Chaume wood
captured a portion of a French trench.
Later, however, they were driven .out
from the most of it. - '
On that portion of the line held by
the Americans the first German pris
oner taken has died of wounds sus
tained in No Man s Land when he
failed to obey a command to halt. The
Americans daily are shelling the Ger
mans,, with the Germans answering
their are. Snow has fallen in the
region where the Americans are en
trenched. On the Russian front the Germans
in their continued evacuation have
withdrawn from the entire Werder
peninsula, projecting into Moon Sound '
In the Gulf of Riga.v The possibility
is mat meir ill-success in landing fur-
iner lorces last week caused the de
cision to withdraw troops.
LIBERTY LOAN WELL
BEYOND FIVE BILLION
Thursday is the Last Day on Which
to Make Returns.
- Washington, Oct. 29. Liberty loan
tabulations were at a standstill at the
treasury tonight, awaiting further re
ports from the federal reserve banks.
On the basis of estimates already in
hand officials are confident that the
flood of subscriptions during the clos
ing hours of the campaign Saturday
carried the loan well beyond the
000. 000.000 mark, but virtually no fig
ures were received today on which to
base an accurate estimate of the grand
total.
The treasury has decided to make
no. further announcements until Nov.
1, Thursday, by which time the re
serve banks are expected to have their
reports somewhere near final shape.
After a day of rest yesterday, the
banks' officers and employes devoted
themselves to tabulating results today
and most of them did not even com
municate with Washington.
Thursday is the last day on which
subscription agencies, Including 26,
000 banks, can make their returns to
the federal reserve banks.
TC SUPERVISE ALL
FLOUR MILLING BUSINESS
And All Handlers Doing a Business of
Over $100,000 a Year.
New York, Oct. 29. Supervision
over Jobbing departments of flour mills
and other wheat -flour jobbers, whole
salers, retailers, brokers, agents, blend
ers ana recondltioners, where such
businesses are operated as an auxiliary
t a flour milling business, or as part
of such a business, is to be exercised
by the milling, division of the federal
iooa administration, it was announced
xiere reaay. -me action is taken undo:
me preeiaent's food proclamation of
Oct. 8 and applies to handlers of flour
ojiu mm yroaucis aoinsr a business in
excess oi tuu,uuo a year, who are In
structed to make, immediate applica
tion for licenses. They will receive
irom tne milling division a form of
ijurauunaire repuiring a detailed de
scription of their relations with the
flour mills with which
dated.
Thereafter, thev will be
make monthly reports to the milling
division .setting forth the volume of
uueuness none ana profits earned.
COSTELLO PLEADED GUILTY
TO INSUBORDINATION
Courtmartialed For Assaulting Cor
poral Krog at Camp Devens.
Ayer, Mass., Oct. 29. At th trial hr
courtmartial here today of Frank
.eenan and .Nicholas Cosrfpllr. nf
onageport members of tVi unity, T
fantry for assault on Cornoral TCrne-
two weeks ago Costello pleaded guilty
to insubordination and assault but said
he was not guilty of assault with in
tent t murder. Keenan will be tried
next week.
WEDDING.
Ryan Cuyler.
Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 29. Thom
as F. Ryan. New York financier ni
Mrs. Cornelius C. Cuyler of New York
were married here todav in the winter
chapel of the Holy Comforter Catholic
church, the pastor, the Rev. Thomas
A. Rankin, officiating. Der. E. Alder
man, president of the University ' of
Virginia, and Mrs. Alderman, were the
only witnesses.
cabiedParappaphs
nerican Sail' nry.jghie,, ft M d in in
American
London, Oct.
sailing ship !F;
gross, has been
a "keel' Dvisub
marine.
She was taken- in tow by the
submarine after being abandoned by
the crew.
NATIONAL ARMY 1EN .
EAGER TO GO TO FRANCE
When Given Choice a Majority Select
Combatant Branches. .
Washington, Oct. 29. Most Of the
young men called for service- in the
national army want to go to France
as lighting men and they want to get
tnere quickly.
Reports from five or six of the big
training camps, Secretary Baker an
nounced tonight, show that when ask
ed what they want to do the great
majority of the select men say they
aon t care wnat tneir jod is to be Just
so tney get ta France among the first.
and then when given a choice between
the combatant and non-combatant
branches most of them elect to be
fughters.
"The boys at the front and getting
reaay to go there are all right," Is
the verdict of the secretary, who re
cently visited several training camps
in the east and south. "Our nation
need have nothing but mounting pride
at the spectacle they present."
"In these camps," said Mr. Baker's
statement, "each man is asked "What
do you want to do?" I have had reports
from five or six of the largest camps
ana tney show that the majority an
swered in effect: T don't care what I
do Just so I get to France among the
first,' The next question asked them
is "What branch of the service do you
prefer?" Now, one who didn't know
America would - expect vthem to say,
wen, i nave Deen working in a store.
I have been a hand on a farm;' 1
have been a mechanic;' 1 have been a
clerk;' 'I don t kjjow much about guns
and cannon, perhaps some one of the
non-combatant places is the place
where I can render the best service.
But what is the fact? More than one
third have asked to go into the infan
try service. The next choice is the
light artillery; the next is the heavy
artillery service; the next is the avi
ation service.
':So that what they asked for In a
tremendously predominating majority
of instances is, not the non-combatant
service for which their Drevious ex
perience might well qualify them, but
tne lighting branch, so that they can
take the risk of fighting for their
country with the real weapons of war."
one day's examinaation at Camn
Upton, New York, for preference as to
branch service, showed, infantry 722;
cavalry six, field and heavy artillery
427; coast artillery 52: engineers 183:
signal .corps and aviation 123; medical
corps 53; quartermaster corps 561;
ordnance 17; machine guns 7: trains
4; veterinary service 1.
NEW REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENT IN MEXICO
Reports That Diaz Seeks to Overthrow
" Carranza Party.
Bl Paso. Texas. Oct. 29. Ranorta
that have been reaching: the bordpr
for more than a month of a new revo
lutionary movement in Mexico head
ed by General Felix Diaz were fol
lowed by the receipt here of what
purported to be a copy of a manifesto
issued by General Diaz calling for the
support of all' who are in sympathy
with a new movement. The purpose
is said to. be the overthrow of the so
called "Carrancista party" and the
restoration of the constitution of 1857.
The manifesto is dated Camp Buena
Vista, state of Vera Cruz, September
3, .1917. It calls especially for the
support of members of the old federal
army which, it says, has not been dis
solved, but was dispersed because of
special circumstances.
According to reports received here,
the newest activities of Diaz and his
supporters have been confined to the
south of Mexico, or Cientieflco" ele
ment and the old clerical party lead
ers. Rumors of German influence be
hind this movement have not been
confirmed.
RECRUITS FLOCKING TO
FIRST CONN. INFANTRY
Following Announcement That Ameri
can Troops Are in Trenches.
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 29. The
news that American troops have open
ed fire on the Germans has stimulated
enlistments here, is the opinion lit?
major w. a. mercer, in charge of the
local United States recruiting station.
Today 3-8 men were accepted for the
army and sent to army reservation
camps. Recruits are also now flock
ing to, join the First Connecticut in
fantry, encamped near the Tale bowl.
says . Captain James A. Ramsay, in
ctarge or the recruiting here. Thds
state now has furnished 760 more than
its quota for the regular army and
there is still a call for. hundreds of
artisans.
ALL PACKING PLANTS
UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL.
After Nov.-1st They Will Be Operated
Under License.
Chicago, Oct. 29. Official announce-
I ment Was made today that every pack-
.pimii. in me country is under full
control by the government and that
after the first of November the control
will be absolute, operation of the
plants then beinp under license.
The announcement was coincident
with the grand jury drive against high
priced milk and was made by Joseph
P. Cotton, chief of the meat division
of the food administration, and Prof.
Charles McCarthy of the University
of Wisconsin, personal representative
of Food Administrator Hoover, after
weeks of the investigation of the Chi
cago packing plants.
Within a short time meat price bul
letins will appear with the food admin
istration's bulletins.
BETTING FAVORS HYLAND
IN NEW YORK ELECTION
Tammany Man is I to 2 Favorite; Was
2 to 5 Mitchel is 2 to 1.
New Tork, Oct. 29. Betting odds on
Judge John F. Hylan's chances for
election in the mayoralty campaign
lengthened slightly today, when a curb
broker announced the placing of $15,
000 of Tammany money at odds of 1 to
2 on their candidate against Mayor
Mitchel. Odds on Hylan have been
2 to 6. The Mitchel odds remained
at 2 to 1 against the mayor.
Morris Hillquith, the socialist can
didate, was quoted at 6 to 1 against,
and the odds against ex-Senator Will
iam M. Bennett were 8 to 1. There was
little betting on either Hlllquit or Bennett.
steamer Bearing
L mum
JSolons Attacked
BY A U-BOAT OFF THE
OF WALES
COAST
FORCED TP SUBMERGE
Gunners of the Steamer Opened Fire
Immediately Dinner for Senators
and Representatives at Athenian
Club.
London, Oct. 29. The steamer on
which were United States Senators
John D. Kendrick of Wyoming, and
William S. Kenyon of Iowa, and Rep
resentatives John J. Rogers of Massa
chusetts and James S. Parker, of New
zone, was attacked by a German sub
marine off the coast of Wales Satur
day. The gunners on the steamer
opened fire Immediately and the sub
marine submerged before having time
to launch a torpedo.
At a dinner given at the Athenaeum
euro tonight by - the lord high chan
cellor, Sir R. B. Finlay, In honor of
the American senators and representa
tives, the chancellor confirmed the re
port of the attack on the liner..
FRENCH PRESS REGRETS
ACTION AGAINST DAUDET
Government is Accused of Attempting
to Sidetrack Inquiry Into German
Intrigue.
Paris, Oct. 29. The police search for
evidence concerning a supposed Royal
ist plot was continued today. Leon
Dau-let, editor of the Royalist organ,
L Action Francaise, whose offices were
searched yesterday, was not permitted
to leave his house' this morning, and
a policeman was posted at the door to
see that he did not receipe reporters, a
host of whom were there. In the resi
dences of M. Daudet and . Charles
Maurras, co-director of --the newspa
per, further documents and miscella
neous weapons were found.
M. Daudet rediculed the whole affair,
saying all he could do was to thank
the government for giving his news
paper and himself such a splendid free
advertisement. Public opinion, as voic
ed in the press, deprecates tho govern
ment's action, regarding it as ill-ad
vised, inasmuch as it lends exagger
ated importance to the Royalist agi
tation. Gustave Herve, in La Vic
toire, says:
"It is at a moment when r.very one
is astomslied that the traitors ana
agents of Germany have not yet been
judged and shot that the government
attacks one of. those who denounced
them. It attacks him,, not "for the pre
cise and real offence -of spreading
alarmist reports concerning M. Mal-
vy (former minister of the interior,
who was charged by M. Daudet with
pro-German activities), but 'or I do
not know what ridiculous plot against
the state."
Former Premier Clemenceau says in
his newspaper, L'Homme nnchaine.
that he thoroughly agrees with the
prosecution of slanderers, but con
demns what he calls "manoeuvres to
divert or delay operations, whether le
gal- or political, whose inspiration it
is not difficult to discover."
EMPEROR CHARLES HAS
- CONGRATULATED KAISER
On the Capture of the Italian Town of
Cividale.
Amsterdam, Oct. 29.--A despatch re
ceived here from Vienna says Emperor
Charles of Austria-Hungary has con
gratulated Emperor William on the
capture of the Italian town of Civi
dale by the German troops and has
thanked the emperor for placing at his
disposal " a number of your splendid
divisions."
"The attacking energy of your
troops," said the message of the Aus
trian monarch, "proved, as ever, to be
unconquerable."
Emperor William in reply sent the
following telegram to Emperor
Charles:
"The operations so successfully be
gun under your command against the
Italian army give promise of progress.
I rejoice that beside your v. well-tried
leonzo fighters the German troops in
comradeship of arms have beaten our
disloyal former ally. Congratulations
on the capture of Gorizia and the Carso
plateau. Forward with God."
MEANS CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF MRS.
KING
Has Been in Jail at Concord, N. C,
Since Sept. 21.
Concord. N. C, Oct. 29. The grand
Jury today presented a bill of indict
ment charging Gaston D. Means with
the murder of Mrs. Maud A. King of
New York and Chicago who, was shot
near nere August. 29. means wno was
Mrs. King's .business agent has been
in Jaii here since September 21, when
he was bound over to he grand jury.
Means and Mrs. King were said to
have been preparing shortly before her
death to file a second will of her hus
band, the late J. A. King of Chicago,
which would give her son $2,000,000 at
present held In trust.
BILL POSTING CASE
HEARD BY JUDGE THOMAS.
All
the Arguments Made and
oision is Reserved.
De-
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 29. The In
Junction brought against Chief of State
Police iigan by the Hartford Posting
Advertising company to prevent en
forcement of the license law on bill
posting companies was beard by Judge
Edwin S. Thomas In the United States
district court here today. All the ar
guments were made and Judge Thomas
reserved "decision. The posting com
pany, through Its counsel, argued that
the license law passed by the last leg
islature is unconstitutional.
DECREASE IN DIVIDENDS
OF BOSTON ELEVATED ROAD
This Year 3 1-2 Per Cent Previous to
' 1916, 6 Fer Cent. Was Paid.
Boston. Oct. 29. Directors of the
Soeton Elevated Railway company,
wblch operates the elevated, subway
and moat of jthe surface car system
in Boston, today passed the regular
quarterly dividend. (Stockholders this
year have received- 3 1-2 per cent, in
dividends. Previous to 1916, 6 per cent,
bad been EgjA&rjtpanjryeftQL
To Take Custody
of Enemy Property
UNDER PROVISIONS OF TRADING-
WITH-THE-ENEMY
LAW
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
First Receipt Was a Draft for $103,000,
Which Was Invested in Liberty
Bonde Ultimate Disposition Rests
With Congress.
- Washington, 0L 29. Arrangements
were made today at a conference be
tween President Wilson and A. Mit
chell Palmer, custodian of enemy
property to put into complete opera
tion the provisions of the trading -with
the enemy law for custody of prop
erty -in this country, of citizens of
Germany and of countries allied with
Germany.
Receipt of enemy property already
has begun, the first receipts being a
draft for 1 100,000 voluntarily tendered
the custodian, who promptly invested
in Liberty bonds.
Preparing to Enforce the Law.
Mr. Palmer said after the confer
ence with the president that he was
preparing to enforce the law as it
stands for taking over property of
Citizens of nations allied with Ger
many as well as that of Germans. He
Suspend the law's operations as to
property of Turkish. Bulgarian, Aus
trian and other allied citizens whose
nations are not at war with the Unit
ed States, although that question has
not been discussed.
Ultimate disposition of property
taken over by his office. Air. Palmer
explained, rests with congress, which
must decide whether it shall be con
fiscated or merely held in trust during
the war by the custodian as a trus
tee. COMMANDER LUCKNER
OF SEEADLER CACTURED
Off the Fiji Islands by Figian Constab
ulary, September 1.'
A Pacific Port. Oct. 29. Count Von
Luckner, commander ot the German
raider Seeadler, was captured Septem
ber 21 off the Fiji Islands by Fijian
constabulary, according v.o wrd
brought b ya steamer arriving today
from a trans-Pacific port.
Five German members of the Secad
ler"s crew were taken with their com
mander, officers of the arriving ves
sel said. . The Germans were in an
armed-launch and were pursued by the
constabulary, who were aboard the
steamer Amra. This report -of the
capture of the Germans confirms a
message to this effect received some
time ago from Australia.
Just what became or others of the
Seeadlers crew is not known. One
report was that they were at sea in
a commandeered vessel.
The Seeadler. wrecked on the Mohe-
pa Islands in the South Pacific some
months ago, sank three American ves
sels during her cruise In the Pacific.
Previously, in the Atlantic, she put an
end to sixteen vessels of various types.
News of the destruction of the Stead
ier was announced in Washington Oct.
4.
GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENT
AT WINDSOR LOCKS
Bliss
A. Price of Dorchester Killed
When Auto Was Struck;
Windsor Locks, Conn., Oct. 29.
Bliss A. Price of Dorchester, 'Mass.,
was killed here tonight when a train
hit an automobile he was driving
across an unprotected railroad cross
ing. He was on his way to Boston
from Bridgeport, where he had just
bought the car- he was in. His wife
was driving behind him in another
motor car in which the two had made
the trip to Bridgeport earlier in the
day. Mrs. Price was so overcome that
she insisted on proceeding home, and
her car was taken In charge by a
passing autoist who volunteered to
drive to Dorchester.
From license cards found on his
body it would appear that Mr. Price
was an automobile dealer and lived
at 477 Columbia avenue, Dorchester.
His skull was crushed and death was
instant.
BISHOP BREWSTER'S 20TH
ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED
With Special Services at Trinity Epis
copal Church, New Haven.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 29. The
twentieth anniversary of the conse
cration of Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brew
ster, bishop of the (Episcopal diocese
of Connecticut, was observed today
with special services at Trinity epis
copal church here. Bishop Brewster
preached the sermon at the services
which began the observance, dwelling
on the work of the clergy which he
said was one of self-sacrifice.
Exercises were held during the af
ternoon at the parish house and to
night the Church Club of Connecticut
will celebrate the 20th anniversary of
Bishop Brewster's coming to Connec
ticut, with a banquet.
About fifty, clergymen of the dio
cese were present, including Suffragan
Bishop E. C. Acheson of Mlddletown,
Rev. Henry S. Harte, archdeacon of
Hartford, Rev. Charles A. Marks of
Wilton, Rev. Samuel R. Colladay of
Hartford and Rev. Stephen F. Sher
man, Jr., of Bridgeport.
FIRST DAY'8 CAMPAIGN
FOR FOOD 'PLEDGE
CARDS
Indicates a Huge Enrollment of Amer
ican Families.
Washington, Oct 29. Scattering re
turns on the first day's campaign for
food pledge cards Indicate that the
hope of the food administration for a
huge enrollment of the American fam
ilies in a food conservation army will
be realized.
Iowa officially reported 72)0 00 pledge
cards signed during the day with
many sections still to be heard from.
Indiana, the only other state to make
an official announcement, reported over
67,000 signatures.
The total number of .signed pledges
now stands at 2,155,704, Including
cards In the possession of the food
administration as a result of the in
formal campaign carried on early in
the summer by women's organizations,
schools ao4 other agencies.
Condensed Telegrams
President Wilson issued an appeal
to the people to contribute to the Syr
ian relief fundi
Germans set on fire and destroyed
the German gunboat Eber at the Port
of Bahia, Brazil.
Navy department officials announced
a plan to double the size of the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
The "awkward squad" Is now a reg
ular part of the activities of Mouki
Holyoke college girls.
Philadelphia was struck with two
severe thunder storms. Lights were
out for many hours. '
Bituminous coal will be raised 45
cents a ton more owing to the In
crease in wages of miners.
Cornell University's Liberty Lean
subscriputions were $370,000. The
professors alone pledged $234,650.
Reports from 133 storage warehouses
to Federal officials show 61,834,763 lgs.
of frozen and cured fish on Oct. 15.
Pen, Paint and Pretzels, the Tufts
college dramatic society, is planning to
furnish entertainment to men in army
service.
Two members, of a 'Boston draft ex
emption board have donated their sal
aries to the relief fund of Company B
of the 301st infantry.
Tom Longboat, twice reported killed
In France, has written a letter to his
former Marathon manager stating, he
was much alive.
Food Controller Hana of Canada an
nounced that the sugar shortage was
real and unless the situation improves
drastic steps will be taken.
.On board a British steamer arriving
at an Atlantic port were a scorx of
American ambulance drivers to eniiBt
in other branches -of the service.
Official notice of the death of An
drew Courtney Campbell a young Chi
cagoan in the French flying corps was
received by his parents in Chicago.
Englewood, N. J, raised $2,092,250
for the second Liberty Loan. The
over-subscripion was more than 100
per cent. There were 2,759 subscrib
ers. Johrt R. Oldfield, 59, manager of the
Lawrence, Mass., opera house, and long
identified w.ith theatrical interests in
New England, died suddenly of heart
disease.
If arrangements under way are com
pleted the Army and Navy football
elevens will .play at the Polo Grounds
in the last week of November for the
Red Cross.
Mrs. Henry Wittenbrock, who was
struck by an automobile driven by
some unknown person, died of her in
juries . in the Stamford hospital late
yesterday.
Several persons were killed in a
rear-end collision between a Missouri,
Kansas and Texas passenger train and
a freight train, five miles south of
Austin, Tex.
Miss Estelle Bescher, 27. of Yonk
ers, N. Y., died at the Stamford hos
pital . of injuries suffered when she
threw herself in front of an electric
locomotive.
William H. Dinsen, American league
umpire, is confined to his bed at Syra
cuse, from a painful wound caused by
the accidental discharging of his gun
while hunting.
The Liberty loan committee of the
Philadelphia reserve district an
nounced yesterday that the subscrip
tions in the district would amount to
at least $380,000,000.
Tarry town has a suffrage war. The
antis strung a banner across Broadway
with the words 'Vote no" and in the
night it disappeared. The antis offer
a rewaijd of $100.
The fight at Chicago between pro
ducers and distributors of milk on one
side and consumers on the other, on
the . matter of pricos, continues with
slight gains for the consumers.
Michael J. O'Dennell and Harry
Mauer enlisted men on the transport
Antilles which was sunk by a U-boat,
are in a Red Cross hospital In France.
Both men lived in Richmond Hill.
In a collision' with the running gear
of an ascending aeroplane Private Jo
seph Hayes, 25 years old of the New
York Thh-d Aero Squadron, was in
stantly killed v at Camp Donephan,
Okla.
Gen. Alexis- Brusiloff, former com
mander-in-chief of the Russian armies
and General Nicholas Rusky, member
of the Supreme Mlilitary Council
condemned the anarchy in the Russian
armies.
The Red Cross committee announc
ed that Louis J. Horowitz, president
of the Thompson-Starrett company of
New York, has been appointed direct'
or -of the foreign relief of the Amer
ican Red Cross.
Official tabulation of the New York
federal reserve district's eubscriptions
to the second Liberty loan yesterday
brought the figures close to the maxi
mum of $1,500,000,000, a total of $1,
410,152,500 having been reached.
Holland will suffer intensely this
winter, owing to the coal famine. Ger
many is Holland's only supplier. For
every 20 tons of coal taken from Ger
many Holland has to send a man to
the Teuton mines to work, owing to
shortage of labor.
William Jennings Bryan in a speech
at Camp. Wadsworth to the soldiers,
told them to always keep in mind the
Christian ideal when they go over to
fight and never let their sense of hu
manity to be obscured by their de
termination to win the battle.
GERMAN AND HINDU
PLOTTERS SENTENCED.
Jaeobsen, Wehde and Boehm to Pay
110,000 Each and to Serve Two Years.
Chicago. Oct. 29. Judge Landls In
the United States district court today
imposed prison sentences and fines on
the four men recently convicted of
conspiring to foment rebellion In India.
Guetav H. Jaeobsen. leader of the con
spiracy; Albert Wehde and George
Paul 'Boehm were sentenced to two
years imprisonment and lined $UB,00u
each. They are Germans. Heramba
Lai Gupta, a Hindu, was sentenced to
IS months in prison and fined $200.
The sentences were pronounced, after
motions for a, new trial had been denied.-
TAFTGI
IN "SAVE FOOD" D
Opened Conservation Campaign in Bridgeport With
. Speech That Will be Part of National Propaganda
WE MUST REDUCE CONSUMPTION, AVOID WASTE
Impresses Upon His Hearers That Our Soldiers Abroad Must
Have the Food That Will Bear Transportation and Con
tains the Most Nourishment, Such as Wheat, Beef and
Mutton, Sugar and the Fats of Pork, Butter and Dairy
Products Corn, Potatoes, Vegetables, Fruits, Fish and
Eggs Are Recommended for Home Consumption.
Bridgeport, Conn.,' Oct. 29. Former
President William II. Tfift soun3ed the
keynote of the food conservation cam
paign in this state here tonight in an
address that later will be utilized as
part of the 11 -ional propaganda in
"Save Food" drives elsewhere. In
pounding homo his argument to save
waste and for economy in the use of
meat, wheat and fats, he said:
"This conservation of food by a re
duction in its consumption and avoid
ance of waste, congress haa not yet
made compulsory in the individual.
Congress has not entrusted nny offi
cial of the government to limit what
RETAIL PROFITEERING
TO BE MADE IMPOSSIBLE.
To Cut Off Supplies to Those Not Sat
isfied With Reasonable Profit.
Washington, Oct. 29. Profiteering
by retail dealers in foodstuffs will be
made impossible after Nov. 1. the food
administration announced today, un
der a plart to cut off supplies to thoVe
not satisfied with reasonable margins.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and other
handlers of foods, whose businesses
will go under license, will not be per
mitted to sell to distributors who seefc
unrlue profits.
This plan, food ndmlnlstratlon offi
cials believe, will (five tho government
entire control of retail prices. Whole
salers and others who oontlntic'To" sell
to retailers after they are forbidden to
do so by the fcod administration will
he denied the right to sell goods under
license.
Authority for extending control to
the retailer is cltod In the announce
ment as follows: The urn il! rntallem of
fcod, of whom there are several hun
dred thousand in the country, while
exempt from the licensing provisions,
are nevertheless subject to other pro
viHions of the food control net. TCvery
retailer, as well as every other handler
cf food, is forbidden under the law to
make fny vinreasonable charKP, to
hoard, tt monopolize, waste or destroy
food, or to conspire with anyone to
restrict the production, distribution or
supply, or exact excessive prices on
any necessities. There are no penal
ties provided, but the food adminis
tration hopes that the arrangement of
restricting supplies to violators of the
law will be of some effect, for the re
tailer will find himself unable to buy
poods from any wholesaler or manu
facturer. Federal food administrators In fil
the states wiil be directed to send $r
the food administration the names of
retailers asking excessive profits.
NORWAY'S CLAIM IS
BEING CONSIDERED
That Treaty Forbids Seizure of Ships
Under Construction Here. ,
Washington, Oct. 29. Consideration
is being given by the state department
to Norway's claim that ships under
construction In this country for Nor
wegians are exempted from seizure by
the t'niled States government by the
terms of. the c'.cl treaty between the
United Slates and the dual monarchy
of Norway and Sweden signed In 1827.
Some official!! think, however, that the
contention fslls flat because the pro
visions of the treaty cited ipply to
vessels of Norwegian reglfer, whereas
a ship building on the stocks is not un
der any flag.or subject to treaty stipu
lations regarding shipping. "Vessels
building in American yards for Nor
wegians already have been command
eered along with all others under con
struction, whether for Americans or
for- citizens of any other country.
STRIKE OF UNION PRESS
FEEDERS IN NEW YORK.
Employers Are to Appeal to State
Supreme Court for an Injunction.
New York, Oct. 29. Employers
whose printing establishments were
thrown out of operation by a strike of
union press feeders today will appeal
to a state supreme court Justice in an
effort to enjoin the strikers, it was an
nounced tonight after a meeting of the
association of employing printers.
Whatever legal proceedings they may
institute will be based, it was said,
on the contention that members of the
union have signed a contract which is
effective until Oct. 1, 1919.
The press feeders' walkout automat
ically threw out of work pressmen in
virtually every establishment in the
city, according to union leaders.
GERMAN AIR RAID OF
ENGLAND FRUSTRATED.
None of the Airplanes Were Able to
Pass the Outer Defenses.
London, Oct. 29. Hostile airplanes
endeavored to carry out a raid tonight
on the southeast counties of England,
but none of the mwas able to pass the
outer defenses, according to an official
communication issued late tonight by
B'ield Marshal Viscount French, com
mander in chief of the home forces.
The statement of Viscount French fol
lows: 'THostile airplanes attempted to raid
the southeast counties tonight. Our
airplanes went up and the guns and
lights wer ein action. No hostile air
planes succeeded in passing the outer
defenses."
VES KEYN
RM
you and I eat, but in the exigency ot
war, this may become necessary. It
has become necessary In Germany, in
France and in England and In other
countries. Other govfi-nment trusts
to the patriotic, voluntary action of the
people in securing the necessary econ
omy in the consumiitlon of food. May
she not do this. That'H the question.
If we renpond then no such compul
sory measures need be adopted."
Plea For Conservation.
After dealing with the Immensity of
(Continued on Psge Two, 5th. Col.)
BERLIN'S REPORT OF
INVASION OF ITALY
Asserts That the Entire Italian Isonzo
Front Has Collapsed,
Berlin, Oct. 29, via London. The
AiiBtro-German troops invading north
ern Italy are standing before Udine,
where, the Italian headquarters have
been located, according to today's army
headquarters announcement.
The third Italian army made a brief
resistance to the advancing Teutonic
forces from Wippach to the Adriatic.
This army is now in retreat along the
Adriatic const.
(ormons has been captured and the
Austro-Oerman troops are approaching
the frontier of the Italian codjtt re
gion. The number of prisoners Is increas
ing. The Italian front is yielding nnrth
of the broad sector which was pierced
lr. the Teutonic attack, the weakening
extending as far as J'lockon Pane.
The entire Italian Isonzo front has
collapsed, the statement adds. The
second Italian army is retreating to
vnrdn the Tagliamento. All the r'Uds
f.rp covered with columns in disorderly
retreat, the crowds comprising both
soMlerg and civil population.
The Austro-Oermsn forces on the
Isonzo front are commanded by P,cn
cral Otto Von Beulow, it Is announced.
1
MAURICE P. BRADFORD
PLEADED NOT GUILTY.
Charged With Murder of Miss Alice B.
Richards at Laconia, N. H.
Lnconla, X. H., Oct. 29. Maurice P.
Bradford pleaded not guilty on the
ground of insanity when he was ur
raigned in the superior court here to
day, charged with the murder of Miss
Alice B. Richards, a teacher in the
echoo! for feeble minded, on June 28.
The court ordered him sent to the
state hospital at Concord for observa
tion. Hradford, a physical director at the
Fchool, Jnvited Miss Richards and two
other teachers to his cottage on the
school grounds.
At the cottage 'Bradford, on tho pre
tfnse of showing his guests a trick,
bound them with ropes and then beat
them with a club. Mis Richards died
later as a result of her injuries.
DARKENING OF BROADWAY'S
FAMED ELECTRIC SIGNS,
Is Being Discussed, for the Purpose of
Saving Coal.
Washington, Oct. 29. Darkening of
Broadway's far-famed electric signs,
to save coal for war purposes, was dis- '
cussed at a hearing given representa
tives of the Broadway association of
New York today by the fuel adminis
tration. The conference was the first
oi a series that will be. held here to
take up measures designed to prevent
waste of the country's fuel supply.
A compromise proposal, it wae eald
tonight, probably will be made ef
fective, under which lights on New
York's great thoroughfare will not be
turned on until 8 o'clock p. m. this
winter, instead of at 4.30 o'clock or 5
o'clock, as formerly.
HERBERT S. BIGELOW
SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK
Following Horsewhipping Ffoceivod
Near Florence, Ky.
Cincinnati, O., Oct. 29. Herbert S.
Biselow, pacifist, socialist, head of !he
People's Church of Cincinnati and a
member of the People's Council, who
was horsewhipped near Florence, Ky..
last night by a band of men robed In
Ku Klux fashion "in the name of the
women and children of Belgium," as
one of the leaders termed it, was to
night suifering severely from nervous
shock as well as from the bruises and
lacerations Inflicted.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT
THANKS NAVY AN"b ARMY
Adopted Resolution Presented by
Prnmier Lloyd Georne.
LonJon, Oct. 29. Parliament today
adopted a resolution presented by
Premier Lloyd George, expressing the
thanks of trie parliament to the navy
and tbe army, including the overseas
troops or.d the mercantile marine, for
their services in the war and to the
women in the medical and other aux
iliary Bervices and further expressing
tympathy to the relatives and friends
of those "vsho have given their lives for 1
their country.