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Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS
 PLANNING FOR RECESS
Of Both Houses Through July and a Part of August.

Washington, July S.-Although the house interstate commerce committee late today ordered a favorable report on a resolution authorizing, if the president deent5 necessary, govern ment control Of telegraph, telephone, cable and radio systems as war measure, congressional leaders con tinued tonight to make plans looking to recess of both houses through July and part of August. They ex- pected to dispose of pending appro- priation measures late this week or early next week. and to recess imme- diately afterwards
 Chairman Sims of the house com nittee, announced that he would sub init a report on the telegraph resolu- tion at brief holiday session tomor- row and would endeavor to bring it before the house as early as possible Despite this, however, leaders declared that final action on the resolution would go over until after the recess unless President Wilson asked for it's adoption before that time.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
SpeCia! Conventional Ra1WayTe|egrapFlers CALLED TO OPEN IN WASHING
 TON JULY 9TH
 ITO DECIDE ATTITUDE Will Determine Their Position Toward Handling Commercial Business in the Event of a Strike on w. U. Lines.
TO DECIDE ATTITUDE

Washington, July 3-A special con- vention of the Order of Railway Tele- graphers has been called to open here July Sth, at which the telegraphers will determine their position toward commercial business in the event of a strike on the Western Union lines
 At hundreds of smaller railway stations throu@hout the United States the railway telegraphers handle West ern Union business and receive com missions from the company. They also did receive commissions from ex-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
PRESIDENT PoINcARE HAS
 CALLED PRESIDENT WILSON
His Approval of Making Fourth of
 July a French Holiday.

Paris. July 3.-President Poincare cabled President Wilson today that the French government, agreeing with the national representation in parlia- ment, wished Independence Day to be- come a French holiday.
 Tomorrow our two nations will join in memories of the ancient bat ties which won liberty for America" he said. "The anproa ching victory will reward the allies for their long and arduous efforts and ensure q fruitful and just peace, based on the rights of nations and strengthened by the approval of human conscience"
 President Poincare closed his mes sage by expressing the best wishes and congra tulation of France to the United States and President Wilson.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
AVIATOR MADE FLIGHT
 TO HIS HOME TOWN.
Capt. w. J. Malone Surprised His
 Townsmen at Bristol.

Bristol, Conn, July 3-Capt. William J. Malone of the aviation service su- prised his townsmen here by flying into town in a passenger airplane from Mineola, N. Y. accompanied by another officer. late today, to take part in the Fourth of July observance. In the early evening he gave flying eX- hibition over the town. Captain Ma lone is a former member of the general assembly and a former judge of the local police court.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
AMERICAN TROOPS HAVE
 SMASHED GERMAN AT TACKS
Americans Hold the Hamlet of Vaux, Which the Enemy
 Is Striving to Retake
GERMAN DEAD AND WOUNDED COVER GROUND

The Germans Have Lost Heavily But the Battle Still Being Waged Fercey-At Moulin-Soos- Toutvent the French Have Penetrated the German Line Over Front of Near ly Two Miles to Depth of Almost Half Mie-Ger mans Have Driven British From Positions Near Bouzin- court North of Albert-The Italians Have Crossed the Piave River and Have Captured 1900 Prisoners and Valuable War Material - lA-nerican Air Fighters Are Credited With Destroying Seven German Machines T, Is Reported the Ukraine Government Is Tottering.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
RUSSELL T. EDWARDS IS
 INVITED TO ADDRESS WOMEN
At Convention of Women's Association
 of Commerce in Cincinnati.

New York July 3-At the invitation of Miss Florence King. an attorney of Chicago, president of the Women's As seCiation of Commerce of the United States of America Russell T. Ed wards. director of the educational sec tion of the national war garden com mission, will address the members at the convention in Cincinnati on July IT. Every profession in which women are engaged is represented in the membership of the organization. MT. Edwards subject will be Silence"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
AMERICANS DESTROYED
 NINE GERMAN AIRPLANEs
Quentin Roosevelt Was Among the
 Pliers Engaged.

With the American Army in France, July 3.-(By The Associated Press). Nine German airplanes are unoffi- cially reported to have been destroyed by American pursuit squadrons in the air fighting which has been going on since daylight over the smoking bat tie zone of Vaux. Among the f1iers engaged during the day was Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He is flying d Nieuport machine.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
BEEF MAY BE SERVED ON
 ANY DAY AT ALL MEAL S
By Hotels and Restaurants-NewI
 Ruling by the Food Administration,

Hartford, Conn.,, July 3.-Beef in all forms may be served at every meal and beef by products may he served on any day and at any meal by hotels and public eating houses un der new ruling made public tonight by the office of the federal food admin istration for Connecticut and effective tomorrow. It was pointed out that the old rule, which designated certain days and meals at which beef and beef products might be served, had been q source of much confusion and com plaint, the latter especially from pro- prietors whose trade was chiefly at certain times of the day when such service was not permissible.
 The food administration strongly urges, however, that wherever possi- ble pork and pork products be substi- tuted for beef. the explanation being that while there is slight surplus of pork, there is no surplus of exportable DSSl
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
$a,0oo FIRE IN WELDON
 BLOCK, WILLIMANTlc
Blaze is Said to Have Started From
 an OVerheated Electric Iron.

Willimantic, Conn. July 4.-Damage a fire tonight in the Weldon block on Main street The Stewart Clothing Store on the first floor was burned out and on the second floor the apart ments of Dr. John Weldon, owner of the building. were damaged, chiefly by smoke. The fire is said to have started from an overloaded electric iron which had been left in the store with the current turned on.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
PRESIDENT APPROVES
 FIXED PRICE OF COPPER
New Price is Subject to Revision Ar
 ter Next August 15.

Washington, July S,-President Will son today approved the agreement be- tween copper producers and the price fixing committee of the war indus tries board fixing the maximum price on copper at 26 cents a pound. an ad- vance of ? 1-2 cents over the former price The new price. which became effective yesterday. is subject to re- vision after next August 15.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
SENATOR TlLLMAN IS
 DEAD IN WASHINGTON.
He Failed to Rally from Paralytic Stroke He Suffered Last Thursday.

Washington, July 9 (By A. PD.- Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina died this morning at 4--O o'clock lie suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Thursday and had been in dn unconscious condition since that time. The senator had been a member Of the United States senate since 1884 lis term would have ex- pired March 9. i9ls
 Benjamin Ryan Tillman. farmer cotton raiser. twice governor of South Carolina. founder Of several state edu- catonal institutions. and for the last -4 years United States senator from South Carolina, was in many respects the most picturesque figure in the sen ate, where he once referred to himself as a rude man "a cornfield lawyer and plain old Ben Tillman." As a staunch believer in state rights and leader Of the minority party, during the early years of h.s service. he on- posed with characteristic energy botb the men and measures of the adrninis- trauons in the course Of which he served. Since the war he has con slstenuy supported the government in all respects.
 Although nearly T years old. the senator had been in good health until his collapse, eight years ago. in the capitol from weakening of the heart due to hardening Of the arteries. and since that time had been in poor health.
 He was born in Ropers. Edgefeld county. South Carolina, on Aug. Il lSt1. The Tillman homestead. com prising 10000 acres of farm land. had been In the family's possession for more than a century and a quarter Benjamin R. Tillman was the young est Of a family of eleven, seven sons and four daughters.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
s2s2o21s.4s SUIT FOR
 BLACK TOM EXPLOSION
Brought by Bethlehem Steel co.
 Against Lehish Valley Road.

Trenton. \. J., July 3-The Beth iehem steel company has filed a suit ln the supreme court to recover dam- ages amounting to s2.920.213.43 from the Lehigh Valley Railroad comnanv IS result of the Black Tom powder explosion in Jersey City in 1ei6. The Explosion occurred at the dock of the railroad company. The steel comnanv lost seventeen carloads of ammunition and two carloads of combination Yuses in the explosion, which it was llaimed was due to the negligence of ,he railroad company in not having careful handlers of ammunition at the National Docks in Jersey City and in bot providing adequate fire protection there.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

press companies for handling business which lately has been taken over by the government. In many places the income derived by the telegraphers from commercial telegrams and ex- press business exceeds the salaries they receive from the railroad com panies
 lnasmuch as government operation of express and possibly telegraph may lead to curtailment of these payments, the telegraphers will hold a special convention to decide their attitude.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
BIG INCREASE NECESSARY
 IN SALARIES OF TEACHERS Question Discussed Before National
 Education Association.

Pittsburgh, Pa, July 4.-The two most important questions before the National Education Association-a radical revision upward of school teachers salaries and the nationaliza- tion of the public schools of America were discussed here tonight during tine main session of the annual con- vention. Speakers from the south, east and west, told the delegates of the changes. and urged the creation of a federal department Of labor with d secretary in the presidents cabi- net
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL IS
 PROCLAIMED GEAR OF RUSSIA
He is Marching With the czecho-
 SlaVs Against Moscow.

Amsterdam. July 9.-Grand Dufa former Emperor Nicholas, has been proclaimed cZar of Russia, according to the Ukrainian Telegraph Bureau, of kiev. He is marching with tk- the' Czecho-Sla against Moscow. ].
 Grand Duke Michael. after the ab dication of Emperor Nicholas, was named regent
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
BREWING OF BEER TO
 BE CURTAILED 50 PER CENT. Through Fuel Restrictions in the Year
 Beginning July 1.

Washington, July 3. - Brewing of beer and the manufacture of near beer'i will be curtailed 50 per cent. through fuel restrictions in the year beginning July 1. according to a joint announcement late today by Fuel Ad- ministrator Garfield and Chairman Baruch of the War Industries Board, after the weekly meeting of the pres ident's war cabinet.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
GOVERNMENT RETAINS 55s.
 SHORT LINE RAILROADS
Employees Will Receive Same Wages
 as Employees of Steam Roads.

Washington, July 3-The railroad administration announced tonight that 6S3 short line railroads had been re- tained under government control. All employees of these lines will receive the wage awards made to employees of the steam roads. and owners will be com- pensated under the general contract.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
5,5oo,ooo POUNDS OF
 SUGAR FOR BELGIUM
Purchase Has Been Approved by tho
 Federal Food Board.

New York, July 3.-The federal food board approved here. today the appl- cation Of the Belgian Relief Commits sion for permission to purchase 5,500,- 900 pounds of sugar. The consign- ment has been assembled. ready for. shipment to Belgium. This is the. largest single application for sugar yet received by the board under the re- gently inaugurated regulations.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
GERMANY ExAcTS MORE
 MONEY FROM BELGIUM
War Contribution Raised From 5o,- 100000 Francs to 6o,ooo,ooo Monthly

Amsterdam, July 3.-The war con- tribution which Belgium has to pay to Germany, says Les Nouvelles, has been raised from 50,90O, 900 francs to 60,O00,000 francs monthly. This is equivalent to 750 francs per head. The Germans have convoked the provincial councils to discuss the method of payment by the Belgians.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
sLAcKFIsH STRANDED ON
 SHORE OF NANTUCKET
Of Fifty-Two. Some Were Twenty
 Feet Long.

Nantucket, Mass. July 3.-F'ifty two blackfsht. burly of girth like puffing pigs. stranded on the north shore of Nantucket Isla nd today. Some of them were twenty feet long. Word that the school. the first seen here in more than forty years, had come in with the tide sprea[ quickly, and crowds flocl1ed to the shore to witness the slaughter. It was on exactly the same spot that Nantucket folk made a big bla ckfsh haul on Iuly 1. 1874 and fishermen today undertook to ob- tain oil from the catch as in the old whaling days.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
FAVORABLE REPORT ON
 CONTROL OF "WlRES" Has Been Ordered by the House h. terstate Commerce Committee.

Washington. July 3.-The house in- terstate commerce committee late to- day ordered a favorable report on the resolution authorizing the president to take over telegraph, cable, teIe- phone and radio systems
 The committee substituted for the Aswell resolution approved by the president, a measure by Representa- tive Sanders of Louisiana which linn it's the time for federal control to the period of the war
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
PENALIZED FOR VIOLATING
 FORMER BEEF REGULATIONS
License of Hartford Chinese Restau-
 rateur Revoked Indefinitely.

Hartford, Coun., July 3.-Wong Soon. a restaurant proprietor here, has had his permit for meat and other licensed food products revoked indefinitely. it was announced tonight by the federal food administrators office, for failure | oobserve the former beef regulations. It was charged that he served certain dishes on last Monday and Tuesday contrary to the regulations and failed to appear, when notified, to explain his action.
 Two Meriden dealers, it was also announced, have had unfair" orders issued against them for selling wheat flour without proper amount of wheat substitutes. and wholesalers have been directed to make no sales of such licensed commodity to them. They are Antoni Bonanbinga, a baker, and Giovanni Papallo, a saloonkeeper. who had also taken up the business of selling four
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL
 HAS ESCAPED FROM PERM
Brother of the Former Russian Em-
 peror Had Been ExiIed.

Moscow. Sunday June 16.-Grand Duke Michael, brother of the former Russian emperor, escaped from Perm, whither he had been exiled, two months ago, according to a statement made at session of the Petrograd Soviet by E. Zenovieff, president of the Council of Commissioners of the Petrograd commune, today. It was said that Johnson, the grand dukes secretary, had vanished with him.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
Hospital Just Outside Paris

Paris, July 3.-(Havas Agency). President Poincare today went to Joinville-le-P Pont, just outside Paris, where Sir Robert Borden, the Cana dian premier, in the presence of Gen eral Currfe, commander lin chief of the Canadian armies. presented to the chief executive a fully equipped Ca nadian hospital. Several noted Cana dians were at the presentation cere- mony. The hospital contains 520 beds which number will soon be increased to 1040
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
Government Seizes
 S1,5OO,OOO Plant
TERNATIoNAL TEXTILE ING,
 OF BRIDGEPORT
WAS ALIEN PROPERTY
It Is Owned By Max HenkeIs, a Citi.
 zen of Germany-It Is One of the Finest Factories in the Park City.

New York, July 3.-The Interna- tional Textile, Inc, a $1.50O,0 ,00O lace manufacturing company of Bridge port. Conn.,, branch of the largest corporation of it's kind in the world has been seized by the United States government. it was announced today by A. Mitchell Palmer. alien proper ty custodian.
 Files Were Destroyed.
 Seizure was determined upon when it was discovered that all the com pany's books, the correspondence files
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
FIGHT OR STUDY" TO
 RULE AT THE M. |. E.
Students Who Fail to Meet Scholastic Requirements to Be Inducted Into Military Service.

Boston, July 3. - Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- gy during the next college year who fail to meet the scholastic require ments will be inducted into the mill tary service. The plan, urged by prominent alumni and endorsed by the war department was made known today by the college authorities. In effect. the students must either fight or study" It is understood that the der q years of age.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
Schooner Samuel w. Hathaway Safe.

Boston, July 3-The four masted schooner Samuel w. Hathaway. re- ported sunk by a German submarine of the Atlantic coast June 3. has ar rived at a South American port Word to this effect was received today by the owners here.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
457 German Prisoners.

Paris, July 3.-Prisoners to the num- Der of 457, of whom seven were off cers, were taken in the attack north of Moulin Sous Toutvent. according to an official statement issued by the war office tonight.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
Cab!ed Paragraphs

American Red Cross Drive in Japan.
 Tokio, June 2O-(By A. P).-The American Red Cross drive in Japan netted over $50,000 or more than twice the amount pledged by the executive committee of the Japan chapter as it's share of the $100.600.000 fund.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

Fire of unknown origin destroyed four buildings of the Aetna Chemical plant at Mount Union, Pa., causing $1,000,000 loss.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

The Cuban House passed the espion- age bill. once of the strongest meas ures passed against alien enemies in that country.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

All retail stores in New York are going to eliminate special delivery and make only one delivery day.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

Between sixty and seventy persons were killed in the explosion of a na- tional shell-fllins factory in the Mid lands, England.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

The Senate adopted a resolution annulling the charter of the National German American Alliance.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

Mrs. Mary Greeley, sister of Admi- ral George Dewey, dled at her home in Montpelier. Vt, yesterday. She was 79 years old.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

A cereal division of the Food Ad- ministration has been created with Julius H. Barnes as head.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

American troops will be the first to cross the new Wilsoin Bridge, near Lyons, France, during the Foutrh of July celebration.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

The navy announced the Belgian steamer Chiller was sunk 1,40O miles off the Atlantic coast
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy will the port of Nap
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04
Condensed TeIegrams

Mount Vernon, N. Y., voted 10 aboI- ish teaching German.
 The American casualties list con? tained the names of 113 men.
 Department of Agriculture forecast of cotton crop 15,325,000 bales.
 Joseph Cannon announced his candi- dacy for reelection to Congress.
 The Brooklyn Postoffice issued an appeal for clerks and letter carriers.
 The British mission which is visit ing South America, has left Chile for Bolivia.
 Six persons were killed and sixteeen injured in the allied air raid on Mannheim.
 Pedro cohlo, Uruguayan minister to Great Britain, has been transferred to the United States.
 The nsuu aonoupneJ 4ba PeIdio o n
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

Twenty persons were arrested in Nogales, Ariz. They are being held on a, charge of aiding in a plot to foment a revolution in Mexico.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

pA offensive and defensive gas war fare now carried on by American troops will be under the Chemical Warfare Service.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

at Atlanta.
 President Wilson defined new de- fensive area on the lower Chesapeake and abolished the former defensive areas at Chespeake's entrance and Hampton Roads.
 Millions of dollars worth of war or ders are being held up in various man. ufacturing plants in New England be- cause of the strikes and lock-outs in the textile centers,
 Former Congressman Thomas L. Reilly of Meriden. was nominated for sheriff of New Haven County at the Democratic county convention in Waterbury, yesterday.
 A plot by BoIo Pacha to buy the Messengero newspaper, of Rome. and the Secolo, of Milan, has been discov- cred. The papers were to be used to spread German propag ganda. President Wilson granted leave oi absence with pay to all members of the G. A. R. in Government service who wish to attend the 52nd national encampment at Portland, Ore. | The Annie Larson, a little schooner which gained international notoriety as part of a running plot financed 1 by the German Government is a tota
 wreck on the Walden Islands in the
 South Pacific.
 1 Five hundred Weavers employed a l the Wood mill of the American Woolel
 company at Lawrence, Mass, which i f working on government | contracts
 went on strike yesterday. The weaver demand a change in the system o 1 paying bonuses for overtime work
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

The German Government informed the Spanish embassy that their dele gates can not be at Berne for a con ference on prisoners Aug. ,.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

Four American citizens. were mur- dered by Mexican bandits near Tam pico. They were carrying the payroll of the Mexican Gulf Oil Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

A Swedish News Agency corre- spondent at Helsingfors says he learned from a high official that all Englishmen will be expelled from Fin
Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-04

The names of four Americans wounded, one killed in action, one ill and one a prisoner appeared on the Canadian casualties list.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-09-10

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