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THE FAUMEDs MABCl
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eternal W
Will Battle Invader
As Soldiers Desert
"LET THEM COME AND TAKE US," ATTITUDE OF
MEN WliO HAVE BEEN IN TRENCHES RE
TREATING PEASANTS PILLAGE COUN
TRY BEFORE THE GERMANS.
London, Feb. 27 "All sorts of preparations are in pro
'gress," says Hie Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Express.
"One can not help thinking, however, that the state of siege in
Petrograd will be merely technical, as Germans, with or with
out uniforms, are already in the capital. A great many Aus
trians, too are here. The demeanor of the Germans so far has
been exemplary. They go about avoiding ceremony and the
officers, following the Russian custom, carry no swords. They
speak German in an undertone"
If dispatches from Petrograd gauge accurately the situa
tion there the Germans are likely to find little difficulty in oc
cupying the city with trained troops. Russian soldiers quite
frankly refuse to fight and say: "We have had enough of fight
ing. If the Germans come, let them take us."
There is a stiffer attitude among the
workmen from whom, if at all, resist
ance to the Germans must come. Even
though for lack of training their re
sistance should prove of little value,
they are said to be enrolling with en
thusiasm in response to the call of the
Bolshevik leaders. The correspondent
of the Daily News, writing Sunday,
says:
"Kussian troops, almost without ex
ception, have refused flatly to fight.
A division which was supposed to be
defending Narva has arrived in
Gatchina. Ensign Krylenko protest
ed. They replied that they did not in
tend to fight.
"Immediately the first few German
troops appeared the Russian peasant
soldiers, who being peasants, not in
dustrialists, were interested merely in
the land question and cared nothing
for the revolution, started eastward in
an uncontrollable way, threatening to
Back all the towns on the way.
"The Kussian army was Germany's
strongest weapon. In driving it to
ward Petrograd they were driving a
herd of stampeding cattle which would
trample down everything in its way.
The revolutionary workmen could
have put up a real fight against the
Germans, but they could do nothing
against the Russian army, which must
disappear before the revolution can
begin to create any real military force
for Itself. The workmen of the towns
are eager to fight."
Some correspondents, describing
the bulk of the population as lost in
bewilderment and apathy, think such
resistance as may be offered will
amount to little. They say no amount
of talk by the Bolshevik leaders can
cover the plain facts of the situa
tion. Luga, half way between Pskov and
Petrograd, has been occupied by the
Germans, according to an uncon
firmed rumor, a Reuter dispatch from
Petrograd says.
The Bolshevik government has not
yet received a reply from the Ger
mans to the message of Ensign
tCrylenko, asking whether Russia's
Acceptance of Germany's peace terms
renewed the previous armistice.
A German detachment has appear
ed at Savage, half way between Luga
and Pskov. This is the nearest the
Invaders have approached to Petro
grad, where factory workers, men
knd women, are enrolling for the de
tense of the capital.
The Exchange Telegraph Co. says
' Germans operating in the region of
Pskov inquired of the German gen
Bral Hoffman whether, in view ot
Russia's acceptance of the German
peace terms, they should continue to
advance. Gen. Hoffman, the dis
patch says, replied in the affirma
tive. It is uncertain whether the Ger
mans or the Russians now hold
Pskov. An Exchange Telegraph Co.
lispatch from Petrograd, dated Tues-
lay, but bearing no time, says the
bolshevik! announce that Pskov has
keen recaptured.
' All reports confirm the earlier
Itatement that the town frequently
Ihanged hands.
Another telegram says Borisoff 60
niles northeast of Minsk, has been
japtured by the Germans, and that
ttrsha and Smolensk, northeast of
Hinsk, are being evacuated.
Fighting at Rostov on the Don
leased Monday night. The Cossacks
ietired and are pursued by Boisheviki
prces. Ger.. Nazaroff, the Cossack
eader. has been arrested by Bolshe
iki troops who now are attacking
itovo Tcherkask, which is resisting
Irongly.
London, Feb. 27. The Russian rev
olution will defend itself against Ger
nany, says an official Russian state
ment sent out by wireless and which
Innounces that Germany has refused
o grant an armistice. The announce
nent reads:
"A peace delegation now is on the
ray to Brest-Litovsk. We expect any
homent news that it has arrived at
po place appointed for peace nego
lations, but there is no armistice. The
Herman government has formally re
fused an armistice and German de
ochments continue to advance.
"We are prepared to sign their
leace of usurpation. We have already
leclared this, but there are many in
lications that the German Imperial
sts do not desire peace at the present
honient, but rather an immediate
Itrar.gling of the workmen's and peas
tnts devolution.
"Resistance to the German hordes i
hus becomes the principal task of the i
evolution brave,heroie,obstinate and
iltiless resistance. Every position, i
Wery railroad station, every locomo
Ive must bo defended. Every possi- !
tie obstacle must be put in the way of
he enemy.
"Our greatest strength is in our
ride territories Enemy detach
hents still very small, have occupied
fceval and 'Pskov. Even Petrograd
Uelf, which is still far distant, can
'lo way decide the destiny of the revo
Dtion. The government of the peo
lle'e commissaries can and, if needs
te, must retreat, must gather its
brces and must appeal to the coun
ry to use its whole strength for the
kefense of the revolution. Should
fleers
the threat to take Petrograd in
crease, the government will remove
to Moscow or any other city of Rus
sia. "If Germany's plundering raid
should advance, the task of the gov
ernment would be to destroy the pos
sibility of a simultaneous catastro
phic decision by the Germans. They
are attempting to crush the author
ity of the councils and are in search
of it on the routes leading to Petro
grad.
"We will bar these routes by every
thing we can interpose as obstacles.
This, at the moment, is the principal
task of the heroic Petrograd prole
tariat and its revolutionary staff. But
at the same time we must act in
such a manner that the German gen
erals may declare they recognize the
authority of the councils, not only in
Petrograd but throughout the whole
country, north, south and on both
sides of the Urals. Even if they
think they can reach Petrograd by
mere military promenade, we will
prove to them that they will have to
disperse themselves all over Prussia
before they can reach and crush the
authority of the councils.
"Will they have adequate forces to
carry out such a task if we defend
ourselves heroically? No, they never
will have forces again. Such an enter
prise inevitably will resolve itself into
an adventure and will fail. However
deeply they penetrate Russia, then the
more surely will they bring about the
outbreak of a revolution in Germany.
Patience and firmness is necessary.
"The first symptoms of panic creat
ed by the Germans' plundering raid
have become bygone events. The
cowards are in flight and have made
room for the braves who are rallying
themselves in hundreds and thousands
for the defense of the Socialist father
lend. "If peace with the revolution is not
the air of the German imperialists
they will see the revolution knows how
to defend itself."
A number of British subjects have
left Petrograd for home during the
last week. The embassies still remain
there.
The Boisheviki continue extremely
busy enrolling men, gathering and
shipping arms and supplies and in
other defense activities. A dispatch
from Moscow says 70,000 revolution
ary troops have been sent from Mos
cow toward Bologoie.
ERMAN RAIDER
I0LF DESTROYED
OVER 30 VE
Berlin, Feb. 27 The German raider
Wolfe, which has returned to a home
port after raiding Entente shipping
in the Pacific, destroyed at least 35
vessels, it was officially announced
today. Some of the steamers it is
said, were loaded with English troops
and the sinkings, therefore, caused a
corresponding loss of human life.
HOTELS TO STATE
NUMBER OF BAKERS
Hartford, Feb. 27 Hotels and res
taurants must carry on their menu
cards the number of their bakers as
signed to them by the baker division
of the United States food administra
tion, under a ruling issued today by
the Connecticut division of hotels and
restaurants of the food administra
tion, Walter S. Garde. Almon C. Judd
and John Porter. Inasmuch as the li
censing order bears upon every place
using three barrels of flour a month,
the new ruling applied to practically
every restaurant in the state.
Attention also is called to the ruling
on the service of bread in eating
places which was promulgated early
in February and which reads as fol
lows: "A portion of bread or rolls should
not consist of more than two ounces.
A roll should no weigh more than one
ounce. Not more than two rolls or
two ounces of bread should be served
to any ene person at any one meal.
Exception: When bread or rolls or
muffins are made of corn, oatmeal or
bran, the portion may consist of not
more than four ounces. This does
not apply to other wheat substitutes."
TALE AVIATOR KILLED
New Haven, Feb. 27. Mention of
the name of Lieut. Leland J. Haga-
dorn, in Gen. Pershing's list of casual
ties on Monday, leads to identification
at Tale of the officer as an ex-member
of the classof 1916 who enlisted In
the aviation section of the American
expeditionary force. He was commis
sioned in May and left for France.
Death came through a fall of an aero
plane. Hagadorn was 23 years old
and lived in Olean, X. T.
Frank B. Hamlin, a broker, is un
der arrest in Chicago charged with
using the mails to defraud.
Vice Chancellor Von
Payer Approves Policy
of Annexation.
SAYS THE PEOPLE
WILL DEMAND IT
Urges Parties Not In
Line With Idea to
Cease Obstructing.
Amsterdam, Tuesday, Feb.
26 Friedrich von Payer, the
German vice chancellor, in his
address to the reichstag urged
the people to stand behind the
army and made a spirited de
fense of the Prussian franchise
reform bill.
"It is quite intelligible that
the heavier the sacrifices and
war burdens laid on us, the
greater will the mass of the
population be dominated by
aspirations after political
power, political freedom and
influence on the government.
"No power on earth can crush this
idea and these aspirations. From the
start the allied German governments
have taken this into account and it is
their desire to continue along this
path.
"There is only one standpoint," he
said, "for home politics today, in the
fourth year of the war, namely, the
concentration of all the forces of the
empire to the unity of the ' citizens
and labor and readiness for sacrifice
to enable the array to fulfil their
heavy tasks. To that end things
which still divide the various classes
of the population must be removed. .
"I cannot believe that those parties
in whose hands the decision lies will
fail to realize what they owe to the
public in this critical hour, and I hope
they will emphatically repudiate the
suspicion that they really aim at an
intolerable de-lay."
After expressing confidence that the
bill would be adopted, Von Payer said
that co-operation devoid of friction
could be obtained only by endeavoring
through the Inclusion of individual
members from the Reichstag and the
Prussian Diet, who enjoy the confi
dence of their colleagues, in the Im
perial and Prussian governments to
make a firm foundation for a common
policy an.l facilitate the conduct of
affairs. If this development is to bear
fruit good will on all sides is an es
sential condition.
The vice chancellor's speech offend
ed the conservative sections of the
reichstag seriously, judging from the
comment on the address in a Berlin
dispatch to the Koelnische Volks
Zeitung, which says:
"It was known that Von Payer de
sired to settle accounts with the con
servatives, and he did so perhaps more
than it was good for him to do. A
passionate outbreak accompanied this
part of his speech from all the con
servative sections of the reichstag.
That Von Payer should have put
these political groups on the same
level with traitors like Liebknecht and
Ditmann, (Socialist leaders imprisoned
on charges of inciting treason) and
with those who fomented the traitor
ous strike, provoked tremendous out
break of passion on the entire right.
"There were frequent scenes of tu
mult, seriously interrupting the de
livery of the speech, and at its close
his friends were fain to drown ihe
hisses in the house and in the galler
ies by clapping and shouting."
'RIL 1 5TH
Washington, Feb. 27 Aeroplane
mail service between New York and
Washington will be in daily operation
beginning April 15, the post office
department announced today. Eight
machines will be furnished by the war
department.
By arrangement between Postmas
ter General Burleson and Secretary
Baker an aerial postal service will be
conducted for one year as part of the
aviation training system of the army.
The machines will be piloted by army
fliers.
One trip each way will be made
daily except Sunday on a fixed sched
ule. The flying time between New
Yor kand Washington is estimated at
less than three hours, including a
stop to deliver mail in Philadelphia.
The landing fields and hangars will b3
located probably in Potomac park i
Washington; League Island, Philad'el
nhia, and Van Cortlandt park jr
Mineola, New York. '
CORN MEAL-SUGAR
COMBINE BURNED
Hartford, Feb. 27 An optional
regulation issued from the office of
the food administration here on Dec.
8 which permitted a retailer to sell
sugar in combination with corn meal
was withdrawn today for the reason
that several merchants in the state
have been using corn meal as a lever
to bring about the purchase of sugar.
Corn meal now is to be offered as a
substitute in the sale of wheat flour.
At a meeting of wholesalers and re
tailers here yesterday the wheat flour
situation throughout Connecticut was
discussed. It was deemed to be serf
iOUS.
MAIL SERVICE
BY AIR BEGINS
GERMAN RULER IS
PLAN OF WILHELM
FOR LITHUANIANS
Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 27
Negotiations are In progress for
the nnion of Lithuania and Sax
ony, says a dispatch from Dresden,
with Prince Frederick Christian,
second son of the king of Saxony,
as king of Lithuania. The pour
purlers indicate the wishes of the
Poles for a renewal of the
union between Poland and Lith
uania will not be fulfilled.
Maskless Americans And
Those Asleep in Dugouts
Caught, By Fluid.
With the American Army In
France, Feb. 26 (By A. P.) Gas
attacks Monday caught some of
the Americans before they were
able to adjust their masks and
overcame others while they were
asleep in dugouts.
The American artillery on Mon
day retaliated against the Gas
man artillery which had been
shelling them but which, despite
the intensity of the fire, did no
damage and wounded only one
man.
The Americans began by shell
ing Monfesec, where buildings
were destroyed. They also e"ec
tively shot up a large working
party in a dugout, from which
cries for help wore heard. The
enemy today concentrated his fire
on a certain town within the
American lines.
The weather cleared today and
there was much aerial activity.
Severe fights in the air occurred
over and behind the American
line, and in addition the Ameri
can anti-aircraft guns were firing
all day long. Enemy planes at
tacked a sausage balloon in
which an American captain was
acting as observer. The balloon
was hauled down hurriedly
without having been damaged.
Wednesday, Feb. 27
"I idlo not think this is a case which
calls for a stat prison sentence,"
Judgje J. P. Kellogg said in the Su
perior Court in passing upon the case
of Harold Braun, 26 years old, of
Dan'bury, who pleaded guilty to a
charge of manslaughter. The plea had
been accepted by the prosecution.
Judge Kellogg sentenced Braun to six
months in the county jail.
Braun was indicted about a year
ago for second degree murder in con
junction with Ir. G-eorge A. Gilbert
of Danbury, for causing the death of
Rose Braun, wife of the defendant,
through an illegal operation. Braun
was employed on the railroad, and
accompanied his wife the first time
she visited the physician.
0.000 AND
Wednesday, Feb. 27
Two suits in which large damages
are claimed for injuries received in
automobile accidents were filed today
in the Superior Court, one for $10,000
and another for $5,000.
Maria Finn of Norwalk adminis
trator upon the estate of Bartholo
mew Finn, has brought suit against
Fred Giorchino of Norwalk claiming
$10,000 for the death of her husband
who was killed in accident Nov. 21
last on the .Boston Post isad by an
automobile owned by Giorchino.
Negligence of Giorchino is alleged.
George Papp of Stamford claims
damages of $5,000 for injuries he re
ceived when struck by an automobile
owned by Frank Eberhardt of New
Canaan on Hill street in Stamford,
December 1 last. He says he was
severely hurt about the head, three
ribs broken, and other hurts.
CHEESE BOARD
SESSIONS FARCE
Chicago. Feb. 27. Details of cheese
making and selling and testimony
tnat the big packers ireally controlled
the cheese industry in Wisconsin
marked the opening today of the gov
ernment investigation into the pack
ing industry before the federal trade
commission.
Under questions by Francis J. Heney,
special counsel for the commission.
operations of the Wisconsin cheese
market were presented. Henry Krum
rey, a farmer and cheese maker of
Plymouth, Wis., now president and
general manager of the Wisconsin
Cheese Producers' Federation, testi
fied that it was generally conceded
that the big packers Armour & Co.,
Swift & Co.,; Morris & Co., Cudahy &
Co., and Wilson & Co. controlled the
marketing of 75 per cent, of the cheese
made in Wisconsin. The witness said
Wisconsin made 60 per cent, of all
cheese in the country.
Krunrrey said the prices for Wis
consin cheese were fixed by the Wis
consin Cheese Dealers' association,
which he characterized aathe "cheese
combine."
The witness declared the sessions ot
the cheese board were largely a farce.
The so-called Allen slacker bill will
come to a vote in the House today
and unless signs fail, will be passed
BRAUN IS SENT
TO COUNTY JAIL
FOR SIX MONTHS
A $5,0
AUTO
FILED
by a large majority.
TEN SAVED
British Steamer Brings
in Survivors and Four
Dead Bodies.
TWO WASHED OFF
FLOATING HAVEN
Ill-Destined Vessel, the
Cherokee, Was in
Coast Service.
Washington, Feb. 27 The
naval tug Cherokee, formerly
belonging to the Luckenbach
Steamship Co., foundered yes
terday off Fenwick Island light
ship, 22 miles south of the Del
aware capes.
The Navy Department made
this announcement "The Navy
Department is advised that the
U. S. S. Cherokee, a navy tug,
foundered yesterday morning
off the Atlantic coast. Of the
40 aboard five officers and 35
enlisted men 10 had been
landed at last accounts, these
having been taken to Philadel
phia. Four dead were picked
up by steamships.
"The 10 known survivors got away
in the first life raft. Four got away
on the second life raft, but two were
washed overboard anidi the other two
were dead when picked up toy a Brit
ish steamer."
At 9 o'clock yesterdaw morning a
wireless station on the coast picked
up a call for help from the Cherokee.
The call was located at a point about
15 miles oft the coast. Immediately a
naval coast patrol crew manned a
small cutter and started out in a 50
mile gale to search for the distressed
tug. After an all day hunt the crew
returned last night and reported that
nothing haul been found. It is sup
posed that passing vessels had picked
up the survivors and the dead before
the cutter reached the scene.
Announcement was made at the
Philadelphia maritime exchange that
a British steamer, which passed the
quarantine station at Marcus Hook,
was summoned by wireless to the as
sistance of the Cherokee by another
British steamer.
When this vessel arrived at the lo
cality where the tug foundered the
crew vicked up two bodies of the
crew. The ship steamed about the
sea in the vicinity for some time but
failed to find any more dead survivors.
No trace of the lost tug was seen.
The Cherokee formerly was known
as the Edgar F. Luckenbach and was
requistioned by the United States
navy in October, 1917. She was built
in 1891 at Camden, N. J., and regis
tered 273 tons gross. Prior to her
being taken over for government use
the tug was engaged in towing bargej
between north Atlantic ports.
FLOOR HOARDERS
GAR HOGS
1ED BY LAW
Hartford, Feb. 27 Flour must not
be sold and cannot be bought legally
after today in quantities greater than
24 pounds, according to an an
nouncement by Federal Food Admin
istrator Scoville. The new ruling su
percedes the former one that per
mitted sales of 98 pound sacks to
rural dwellers and 49 pound sacks to
city residents. Under the new rule an
equal amount, pound for pound, must
be purchased of wheat substitutes.
such as corn flour, rice, hominy, bar
ley, oatmeal or buckwheat.
From the number of reports sent to
the food administration it is believed
that there are many hoarders of
wheat flour in the state, as well as of
sugar. The food problem in the state,
in the opinion of the food adminis
tration, is growing worse.
Wholesale merchants who have
met with Mr. Scoville have agreed
that today's new ruling is necessary
and some are urging that it be mads
more drastic. Mr. Scoville is em
powered to supervise the distribution
of all sugar received in the state.
GRANT RESPITE
TO SOLDIERS WHO
SHOT UP HOUSTON
Washington, Feb. 27 An indefinite
respite has been granted to five negro
soldiers of the 24th infantry, sentenc
ed by court martial to be hanged for
participation in the Houston riots.
The number and character of appeals
for clemency reaching the president
from clergymen and negro organiza
tions caused the respite.
ROCHESTER FIRE
THREATENS CITY
Rochester, Feb. 27 A Are that
threatened Rochester's factory dis
trict this morning was confined to the
plant of the R. Whalen & Co., to
bacco manufacturers, a five-story
brick building, where it started, after
the building had been partly destroy
ed. Adjoining factories were dam
aged by falling walls water and
AND
BAI
i$120,000. ,
CAHNERS
iflU
STOC
ACCOUNT OF HOLDINGS MUST
( FOR
INGTON BEFORE MARCH 15 REASSURE HOUSEHOLD
ERS AGAINST PROPAGANDA FALSEHOODS.
Washington, Feb. 27 All canners were advised today by
the food administration to hold for war purposes until further
advised all canned corn, peas, tomatoes, string beans and sal
mon now on hand.
Reports of such holdings must ba
made at once, separate from those to
he submitted before March 15. Can
ners who have no stocks are required
to report indicating this fact. Quanti
ties not wanted will be released
promptly.
Reassurance to householders that
the government has no intention to
ARE W FOR WOO
ALLEGE THAT DEED FOR VALUABLE REAL ESTATE WAS
SIGNED AWAY THROUGH INADVERTENCE AND MIS
REPRESENTATION HARTFORD MEN SUED.
Bessie Martin Dew and Caroline Dew Knox of New York
have brought suit in the Superior
and George D .Knox of Hartford
TO FINIS
ON U.S. V
Emergency Fleet Corpora
tion Declares That Number
Are Needed Quickly.
272 SHIPS -ARE NOV
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Original Estimate of Ships'
Cost Expected To Ee
Trebled.
Philadelphia, Feb. 27. More than
one-third of the war vessels and mer
chant ships called for by the program
of the United States government are
building in. ship yards along the Del
aware River, according to figures
which have just bean made public
with the permission of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. The tonnage icn
tracted for, according to government
officials, has transformed the Dela
ware Valley into the greatest ship
building center in the world.
W. B. Ferguson, a representative of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, es
timates that an army of about S5.000
ship workers will be required to com
plete' the 272 ships, including wair ves
sels, contracted1 for by the 11 ship
building plants between France and
Delaware City.
Work on 120 cargo-carriers at the
new government yard at Hog Island
is progressing and this plant is en
gaging to turn out 6,000,000 additional
tons in 1918. More than 2,250.000 will
be the Delaware River's first quota
in the fleet which Uucle Sam relies on
to help win the war.
At the new shipyard at Bristol, Pa.,
florty shipd are contracted for. Here
more than 5,000 men are at work and
is is expected that 10,000 more will be
necessary to complete the vessels on
schedule.
Ten vessels are being constructed at
another new yard at Cornvvells, Pa.
The force there of 500 men will be in
creased to 2,000. At a well known
Philadelphia shipbuilding plant more
than 60 ships are to be turned out-
Most of these are government craft
on which more than 5,000 men are en
gaged:. Another thousand is needed.
In the big yard at Camden, X. J..
across the river from rniiaaeipnia
7.200 men are building twenty-font
ships. More workers are needed hero
also.
Two yards at Gloucester, N- J-, are
turning out 16 ships v.ith a force ot
about 3.000 men. Twice this number
of shipworkers is needed.
Two large plants, one a new one, at
Chester, Pa., have contracted for IS
and 26 ships respectively. One plant
has only 1,700 men on the payroll and
requires at least 3,000 more, accord
ing to the government flsrures. The
other yard is employing 2,000 men,
wheneae at least 5,000 are necessary to
complete its contract.1-..
The plant at Hog Island is now em
ploying about 10,000 workers and offi
cials there estimate that at least sz,W0
are needed.
Work in one plant at Wilmington,
DeL, is progressing on 13 ships on
which 2,800 men are employed. This
company is in the market for another
1,000 workers. At another plant in
that city eight ships are being built,
by a force of 1,000 men and officials
require 1,600 mpne.
A drive uncer the auspices of the
government is now being conducted
throughout the country to register all
men in the S7 trades allied with ship
building. Many of these mechanics
are now engaged in other occupations
and it is planned tt 'transfer them to
the seaboards without disturbing in
dustry. Labor difficulties ani shortage of
steel and other materials, it is ex
pected, will treble the original esti
mate of the cost of the ships con
tracted for. Recent investigation of
the Delaware River plants indicated
that most of the vessels being- built
will be completed in schedule time.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion made public a statement how
the 'Louisville & Nashville Railvviy
spent thousands of dollars ii. political
P
activity and suppoj&mg newspapers
southern states between 1907 and
1914.
NEED
ooo men
H WORK
ST RETAK1
BOVERtliraT
BE REPORTED TO WASH
commandeer any canned goods, pre
serves, home grown food or usual
stocks of provisions kept for family
use, was given today in placards
which the food administration will
distribute to every post office and
public library in the country. The
placards wen headed "Do Not Be
Fooled by the Lies of the Enemy."
Court against Samuel Phillip?
for $20,000 damages
Wednesday
Feb. 27
It is alleged that a deed for valua
ble real estate in Stamford was signed
by them through inadvertence and
the misrepresentation of George D.
Knox, husband of Caroline Dew
Knox and ask for an injunction re
straining them from further transfer
of the property, judgment declaring
the deed given by the plaintiffs void,
and the property to have been held
in trust, for an accounting.
The property in question is in
Stamford, part of the inheritance
which Bessie Martin Dew and Caro
line Dew Knox received from James
Harvie Dew, husband of the former
and father of the latter.
On February 9, 1915, and previous
thereto George D. Knox of Hartford,
at that time husband of Caroline Dew
Knox asked Mrs. Dew for a power of
attorney to manage her real estate.
Then representing himself, so the
complaint reads, as agent for the
plaintiffs, he went to the office of a
lawyer in Stamford and caused a deed
transfer the property to himself to
be drawn up, in addition to the papers
necessary as power of attorney. Later
in Hartford, Mrs. Dew was induced
to sign a number of papers, and it is
alleged this deed was among thero
and without her knowledge.
iii'ENDS BUYING
LEASE BOOKS
U.S. SOLDIERS
Hartford, Feb. 27. The sale of
Smileage Books for soldiers is now in
progress in 25 communities in Con
necticut under the direction of the
Connecticut State Council of Defense.
Relatives and iriemdis of soldiers are
buying these books and sending them
to jioldiers in camp for use during rec
reation hours. Smileage Books pro
vide free admission to high class the
atrical productions in the camp the
atres. The 25 communities where the
Smileage' Books are being sold in
stores and other business places as
official agencies of the council's war
bureaus are: Brookfield, Danbury,
Norwalk, Ridgefleld. Stamford, Strat
ford. Westport, Berlin, Hartford,
Manchester, PTainville, Simabury,
Thomaston, Watertown, Winsted,
Portland, Ansonda, Cheshire, Derby,
Milfor.il, New Haven, Waterbury,
Jewett City, Staff old Springs and
Putnam.
Other war bureaus and town com
mittees of the council are making ap
plications daily for allotment!! of
Smileage Books and the books soon
will be on sale in many more towns
and cities.
Smileage Books can be purchased in
two sizes, the $1 book and the $5 book.
Each book contains coupons valued at
five cents each, the former book con
taining 20 and the latter book 100.
These coupons serve as passes to var
ious kinds of entertainments in camp
theatres. Soldiers ' in possession of
Smileage Books gain free admission,
to the Liberty theatres in National
Army or National Guard camps.
The sale of Smileage Books to the
general public gives the opportunity
to remember the soldier relative, or
friend in a practical way. Individuals
who have no soldier acq-uaJntances
may buy books and send them to the
commanding officer of any military
camp, wno win place mem m
hands ol men who otherwise would
not receive Smileage Books.
GERMANS DOWN
15 AEROPLANES
Berlin, Feb. 27, via London. After
a great many violent duels in the air
on the western front on Tuesday, says
today's war office statement, the Ger
mans brought down 15 Entente areo
planes aJid three captive balloons.
ACCIDENT CASES
BRING LAWSUITS
Arthur Eisenstein of New York has
brought suit in the Common Pleas
court against Isaac Siegel and Morris
Sachs of Norwalk for damages of
$1,000 for injuries in an automobile
accident August 19, 1917. Eisenstein
claims a machine driven by Sachs
backed into his motorcycle, and he was
severely hurt.
Charles D. Burnes of Greenwich
sues Emily Smith in the Common
Pleas court for $400 for injuries to
his automobile by a truck owned by
the defendant in a collision on Put's
Hill. February 17, last.
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