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New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
CHAPIN INSANE IS
 PLEA OF ATnORNI
Defense Will Seek Appointment Commission to Pass on City
 Editors Mental Status.

New York, Sept. 26.-A plea of Il guilty on the ground of insanity VI accepted by the court today in t case of Charles E. Chapin, form city editor of the New York Event. World, who confessed to killing ] wife in the apartments in a loc hotel.
 The prisoners attorney, who offer the plea as a substitute for one of n guilty, announced that his next mo will be an application for appoin ment of commission to determii the mental state of the former edit at the time he shot his wife, and sin then.
 The district attorney did not O pose the change of pleading.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
AMERICANS AND FRENCH HIT IN CHAM
 TO FLANK SOUTH END OF HINDENBl BRITISH INVADE BUL CARA; SERBIA|
CITY OFFERS ID SEND NURSES
 AND DOCTORS TO CAMP DEvENS

Having been informed that 39 telegrams were received in the city today by parents of soldiers who are ill at Camp Devens. and also realizing that the army doctors and nurses at the camp are taxed to the limit of their endurance because of the great amount of illness in camp, Mayor George A. Quigley today addressed the following telegram, which is self explanatory.
 Major General Mccain, Camp Devens, Mass.
 Understand there is shortage of doctors and nurses at Camp Devens. Can I help by issuing call for VOL unteers? Several hundred New Britain boys at Camp Devens. Wire reply.
 Signed:
 GEORGE A. QUIGLEY,
 Mayor In order to be of service in send ing help to the hospitals at the camp, if it is required, the mayor took the subject Up with Governor Holcomb
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
Haig Wins Strong Points.

London, Sept 26.-NorthWest of St. Quentin British troops continued their pressure against the German defenses and have captured enemy strong points in the neighborhood of Selency and Gricourt, Field Marshal Haig re- ports today.
 In Flanders the British line likewise has been advanced, progress having been made in the sector north of La BaSSee.
 North of Gricourt, on the St. Quen- tin sector, the British repulsed Ger man counter ttaCkS
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
LAMAR WOULD NOT 60
"WoIf of Wall Street,, Guest at Mel len Home, Deaf to All Hints He Was Not Wanted.

Pittsfield, Mass, Sept. 26.-David Wolf of Wall Street, visited at Charles S. Mellen's home in Stock bridge three times durnig the sum- mer of 1915 and on two occasions remained for dinner, although MT. Mellen made every possible sugges- tion that MT. Lamar depart, except fled in the probate court here this morning while he was being cross examined by Attorney Milton B. Warner, in his case to seek justifi- cation in living apart from his wife.
 Sensational and amusing letters aI- legged to have been written by Mrs. Mellen, the respondent in the case, by Abdul Humid and his wife, Fran ces Cutet, astrologers, were read to- day by counsel for MT. Mellen. The letters showed Mrs. Mellen had writ ten to the so-caled "soothsayers'' more often than they could answer. Mrs Mellen was given detailed in formation on the horoscope of a per son born in November, the month in which she was born, and it predicted a second marriage for the subject, q long life and that her greater hap piness would come in her years beyond 40.
 Mrs. Mellen did not appear in court this morning, but she and her daughter, Kathryn, are in the city Mrs. Mellen says she will tell her story and obtain vindication at the proper time. Whether she will ap- pear at the present hearing is not certain.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
SAWS JAIL BARS AND
 GIVES STAMFORD TIA! HN.

Stratford, Sept. 26.-John Baker, alias Smith, IT years old, some time during last night sawed through the bars of his cell in the town jail and made his escape. His absence was not discovered until this morning.
 According to the police Baker is wanted for a number of burglaries throughout the state. He was ar rested in Bridgeport Monday night when caught in the act of rohbing a grocery store
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26

in some of the local factories and in the city that there is a serious short age of nurses and doctors at Camp Devens. One report is that there are only two nurses at Camp Devens to take care of the sick soldiers in that camp. To this rumor the war bureau issues the following:
 "The local War Bureau wishes to state this above report is erroneous and that any one having such a re- port should immediately trace it's source and notify the bureau at once.
 Owing to the numerous cases of influenza prevailing at the present time, it is admitted that the medical depa artment is taxed to it's utmost in caring for all the cases"
 Six New Britain soldiers have died in army camps since the general spread of influenza. Five of the vic tims have died at Camp Devens. Par ents of some of the young men who have died have complained that
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New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
Sailors Ordered to Write Home

Great Lakes. H., Sept. 26.--Each of the 45,000 sailors at the naval train ing station here has been ordered to write home and explain to anxious relatives that he still is alive to offset wild rumors concerning the influenza epidemic.
 Latest figures emphasize that the epidemic is not severe. Of S,475 cases reported since the epidemic started there have been 77 deaths and 5,31S cures. New cases in the last 24 hours showed a decrease of more than 100 as compared with the preceding like period.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
SCHOOL STRIKE ENDS
Hartford High School Pupils Ready to Return to Their StudieS-No Session Today.

Hartford, Sept. 26.--The strike of Hartford High school pupils was de- clared off this noon after 48 hours duration. The enthusiasm of the 700 or 800 youngsters involved had been dampened by weather and hostile comment and they were ready to quit. would go back to school heN would have a talk with the school board.
 There was no session of city school today because Of the rain and scarcity of fuel to heat the buildings
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
First BuIgar Army Cut Off.

London, Sept. 26.-Reports in of ficial quarters here indicate that the Prilep-Veles road has been cut at Isvor, isolating the First Bulgarian army from it's main line of communi- cation and placing it in a precarious position. The First Army is on the Allied left.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
S0.OOO Turks in Tolls.

London, Sept. 26.-The Fourth Turkish army on the Palestine front virtually is surrounded in the region east of the Jordan and faces annihila- tion by General Allenbys forces, to- days adVices show.
 The total of prisoners already taken was increased today to 45,OOO.
 The annihilation of the Fourth army. now hoped for, would complete the cleaning up of the Turkish forces
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New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
SERBS REACH ISHTIB IN BALKAN CAMP PAIGN King Ferdinand Calls on General
 MaCkenSen to Halt Allies
 MARTIAL LAW IN SOFIA
German Troops Defending Gradsko Station Routed-Changc in Bull garia's Foreign Policy Reported in Advanced Stage
ALLIES INVADE BULGARIA.

Saloniki, Sept. 26.-Bulgaria has been invaded by Allied troops, according to a. British official statement issued here < today.
 British troops entered Bull garian territory opposite Kos turino, about six miles south of Strumitsa, the enemy base in this region.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
GOING TO FORT sLoCUM.

On October ? the following limited service men will be sent from the first exemption district to Fort Slocum: Joseph Lech, e Grove street; Frank Szostek, 71 Smith street and Abraham 119 Gln street.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
Attack Progresses Fayorably.

With the French Army in France, Sept. 26, 9:10 a. m. (By the Associated Press) French troops today attacked in the Champagne in a thick fog after a period of artillery preparation which terminated in an hour of most intense gunflre.
 The early indications were that the attack was progressing most favora- bly,.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
Postpones Newberry Investigation.

Washington, Sept. 26,-The senate election committee today by a vote of 10 to 1, decided to postpone until af- ter tho November elections consid eration of the resolution providing for an investigation into expenditures made in the primary campaign in Michigan which resulted in Truman H. Newberry receiving the Republi- cnn senatorial nomination.
 T& also was decided to postpone fur fher consideration of the charges in eolving the loyalty of Senator La Fol- lette because of his St. Paul speech, until after the election, owing to the absence from the city of many mem- bt,rs Of the committee.
 Most of the members of the con1- mi s43e believed that to conduct induir- os into campaign expenditures now would he unfair to the candidates and
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New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
WILL INVEST S1,Ooo, ,ooo.

Boston, Sept. 26,-The Arlingtd Mills Corporation notified the Liberj Loan committee today that it wou1 subscribe for $1,000,o0o worth of tl5 Fourth Liberty loan to be credited | Lawrence and other cities and tow1] where the corporation has pronertys
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
Naval Academy Not Ouarantined.

Annapolis, Me, Sept. 26.-Denying that the midshipmen at the naval academy have been placed under quarantine because of an outbreak of influenza al the institution as had been reported, officials there said today that there were 160 suspected cases in the academy hospital. These have been isolated and are said to be of a mild character
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
, Appeal to Mackenscn.

Paris Sept. 25.--"F'resh disposi- tions made by Gen. Franchet d'Espe- rey, who has passed through Prilep, justified the belief that there will be an energetic exploitation of the great inter Allied victory in Macedonia, says Marcel Hutin editor of the Echo de Paris.
 King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has asked Field Marshal von MackenSen, who now is in Bucharest, to take the command of his armies so as to block the advance of the Allies in Old Ser bia and preserve Bulgaria from inva- sion, according to information re- ceived here from Switzerland.
 In we'll informed circlts there are reports that a new ministerial crisis and a complete change in Bulgaria's foreign policy is impending.
 Martial Law in Sofia.
 Martial law has been proclaimed in Sofia, according to reliable news printed in the German press, says the Jouranl of Zurich. It is said that the Bulgarian cabinet is in con- tinuous session and Kind F'erdiand had a long consultation with Premier Malinoff yesterday.
 Pacifist manifestations were held at Sofia on Sunday, Monday and Tues day, it is reported.
 The German government acc ording to advices to the Havas Agency from Zurich, is very uneasy over the pacifist dem onstrations in Bulgaria and the German minister has conferred with King Ferdinand.
 In some Bulgarian political circles it is believed Grown Prince Boris will become regent in the present crisis
 New Serbian Capital.
 Paris, Sept. 25. (Havas) )--Monastir or Prilep will become the seat of the Serbian government as soon as the Allied lines north of those cities have been definitely established, according to Dr. M. R. Vesnitch, Serbian minis ter to France.
New Britain herald., 1918-09-26
WEATHER.

Hartford, Sept. @6.-Forc- cast for New Britain and yici~ nifty. Clearing tonight, cooler, hriday fair. cooler
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New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

with the French. First news of their
presence on the battle line came in the
French official statement of March 5,
which bold of their brave conduct in
repulsing the Germans. To-day's dis
patch, which gave the first details of
the fighting, said:
after very heavy artillery prepa-
ration. including shells of all calibres.
which completely demolished the
ground of the sector, a strong at
tack was made upon the positions
occupied by the Americans. A few of
the enemy succeeded in penetrating
into trench. but an energetic and
severe counter attack threw them
back into confusion.
meanwhile another section sue
ceeded in cutting the barbed wire in
front of the positions where the fight
ing was going on, but they also were
quickly dispersed by the precise fir
ing from the rifles and machine guns
"A third company finally succeeded
in stealing their way into the lines and
attempting a fanking attack, which was
on the point of succeeding Here es-
pecially The Americans gave proof of
splendid energy and a morale beyond
all praise. Almost entirely surround
ed, they aid not dream for one in
ee"uH VI 9ui cuuei ing. ana tUelT ell
forts to extricate themselves were so
determined that they succeeded in dis
placing the enemy without leaving a
single prisoner IN his hands.
THE same date, toward 4:3O o'clock
in the morning, an American patrol
of four men and one sergeant en-
countered an enemy patrol that was
cutting the barbed wire and which
was composed of nine men. Giving
proof this time of splendid offensive
qualities and without considering their
| numerical lnferiority. the American
patrols threw themselves upon the
advcrsares and after a furious com
bat succeeded in putting them to flight
bringing back with them two prisoners
"ln the attack and in the defence the
American soldiers assumed the bril-
liant place which they intend to hold
among the Allied armies"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Admiral j. A. B. Smith
Dead at New Orleans
Entered Service in Civil War
and Retired Ten
Years Apo
IStnf Corresnondencel ]

WASHINGTON, March e.-The Navy
Department has been advised of the
death of Rear Admiral John Addison
Baxter Smith, Z. S. n, retired, at New
Orleans to-day.
Rear Admiral Smiths last office was
that of general inspector of machinery
with headquarters in New York. He
also was senior member Of the board
on changes in machinery for the At
lantic Coast.
Rear Admiral Smith was seventy
two years old and had been in the
United States Navy since 1863, when
he was assigned to engineering duties
aboard the gunboat Housatonic. The
Housatonic was blown up by a Confed-
crate torpedo boat off Charleston. S. C..
but the young officer was rescued He
was promoted steadily, and at the time
OF his retirement ten years ago was a
captain. The end of his service was
marked by his promotion to rear ad-
miral.
He was visiting his daughter, Mrs
L. I. Fryer, and her husband. who ;s
a major in the United States Marine
Corps, when he died, it was learned
here yesterday. His wife was present
when ne was stricken with acute ndi-
gestion. Besides Mrs. Fryer, two chill
dren, Mrs. Edmond p Ramsey. of Ia
naica, Long Island, and Paymastar
John Addison Baxter Smith, ir.. U. s
N, survive him. He will be buried
IN Baltimore, the city of his birth.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Said the Senator From California
To the Senator From Mississippi

ramento, Cal. According to Senator
Johnson, he also spent his fortune on
It. The $4,000 included an appropria-
tion of $4,000 as salary for Nm. Lubin,
and it was to this that Senator Will
Jams objected
The Senator from Mississippi, who
looks like e. gamecock, but speaks more
slowly than gamecock fights, said
that his memory of the abilities of the
gentleman. gathered from d conversa-
ton with him thirty years ago, was
not such as to impress him with Mr.
Iubin's qualities for the place. Whereat
Senator Johnson rose in his might and
fell upon the Senator from Mississippi,
who is small and rather slight, with a
weight Of oratory that would have
crushed any one but II Mississippian.
In the sparring that followed the
Senator from California withdrew his
statement that the Senator from Mis-
sissippi had "foully" abused his friend
Lubin, but Senator Johnson refused to
withdraw the "abugcd." At which point
the matter rested and in which shape
IL will 10 into "The Record"
So far as the legislation itself is
concerned, the tempest had little effect.
Ey vote Of ~ to rs the SENATE ap-
proved the $1,000 appropriation.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Great Britai,7's Ship
Production Exceeded
By American Yards

America Is now producing more mer-
chant ships than Great Britain. The
difference in output will rise sharply
in the near future. These facts appear
in comparing the Shipping Board re-
port Of launchings given out in Wash
ington yesterday with the speech of Sir
Eric Geddes, First Lord of the British
Admiralty, in Parliament on March s.
United States yards delivered 120,70O
tons in completed ships in February, a
month which produced also some Of the
worst weather ever known here, Sir
Eric said the British output in January
was $4,000 tons, and he thought the
February record would be nearly twice
that amount. American deliveries in
January were 1854 tons. March de-
hveries are expected to be 8s,275 tons.
Sir Eric's speech had discouraged
tone. He said:
The main fact is that owing to labor
unrest and strike difficulties the men
IN the yards are not working as if the
lie OF the country depended on their
exertions. The employers are perhaps
not doing all they could. The long
strain OF the war must have an effect
upon their nerves as upon every ones
else. The serious unrest which existed
IN January will have an effect on COM
pletlons in later months
The greatest American shipyards are
not yet approaching their full capacity.
Inc hog Island yard, which will be the
nlggest in the world, has laid the keel
Of Just one ship.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
War Will Mould New
y. S., Vesnitch Thinks
America Will Fight On to
Victory, Says Serbian
Diplomat

PARIS, March 8.-The war will COM
plete the development O. the national
Individuality of the United States.
Ihls IS the conviction expressed by DR..
NJ K. Vesnitch, head of the Serbian
Mission to the United States. in a
statement to the Petit Parisien. -
That, he said, would be the most posi-
tive and most fortunate result of the
struggle, and civilization would profit
by it.
DR.. Vesnitch declared that he re-
turned from the United States fully
convinced that America would not stop
halfway, adding:
"She could not, even if she would,
furl her banners before victory has
shone upon them. That would mean
not only stagnation, but decline. 1t
would be a. setback for humanity in
general Americans will never accept
that.
Zone of the reasons for the success
of my mission was that I always in
sisted on the necessity for carrying on
the war to victory and of turning a
deaf ear to Germany's hints of peace,
although l represented nation which
has suffered and suffers more than any
other from the war and which, in pro
portion, has made the greatest sacri-
ficeS''
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
cted, than men and women

Is expected, than men and women.
Experts in Office management have
devised special schemes Of office rou-
tine. Regular recreation periods in
the middle of the morning and after
noon are provided. There are a piano
and graphophone, and the girls may
dance during the short recess. The
managers say that they do 2n per cent
better work as a result. The bureau
has supervising matron who advises
the girl employees, most of whom have
come to Washington recently for war
time employment on patriotic grounds
Speedy typists are carefully chosen
from the throng, and arranged at the
lcng work desks in the centre of a
group of slower workers. This arrange
ment promotes group speed and better
Office morale, the efficiency men in
charge declare. Blond girls are as
signed to places between brunettes, for
the bureau management believes
blondes are of more nervous tempera-
ment, and the brunettes provide a
steadying influence.
Signing Checks Big Task
Each check is typed individually. and
a government law provides that checks
also must be signed individually.
rather than stamped mechanically The
signing is big task Signature dupli-
eating machines are used, ten checks
being signed by each original signature
Of pay clerk.
Yet with all the efficiency methods
Of this big office, it must go into the
discard before the automatic check
writing machines, now being perfected
by M. f. Bailey, chief disbursing clerk.
These machines, by a single operation.
will stamp the check with the name Of
the payee, the amount, the address, the
name of the soldier. his organization
sign and the serial number of the
check.
In addition to this disbursement
work, the bureaus life insurance busi-
ness includes the receipt and classical
ton of 40 600 applications daily from
men in camps, for an aggregate of
$500 900 of insurance. The total
number of applications received up to
the present is about 100000, and the
total value of policies sought is more
than S10,000000,O 900.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
By Ralph Block

"AsHiNGToN, March e.-Fortu-
''~'e'y Senator'S don't mean half they
OF each other. Senator johnson,
:. 'ailiorn'a, told the Senate to-day
w' ,sa' Senator John Sharp Williams. of
- s.1'sssippt, had foully abused Il man
'an Hnown all his life and Of whoae
,"''on iss TO the cause of humanity he
sFery necessary proof. The man
1a'N whom this exciting dialogue
.siea waa generally supposed at the
s.shs s-a.'s TO be several thougand mile.
toy@S pnt that did not prevent gena
inc .yphnaon and Williams from spend :
sss., .'s dying moments Of Il Satnrday
atrrss. ats,.a putting sparks into the sengte te
f,,,,. ~ meeting waa the result ~ an ef-
tsyr.sD ~ appropriate 81 900 for the IN
fn.,s.s.onal fn,sss'onal Agricultural Institute. an
9yesS 9y.SSIk'on as that may some day he Of
sssrws ssfyice III keeping She world from
esns1.hag eehg ~ ;ssninx reports on crop
uh.. uh.saoss 4ss all over the World. The man
faxs,1 1r,eanled the international AgricuI-
' 1ass'sate 10 David Labln, Of Sac
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Poor Writing Of Fighting Men
Delays Checks to Dependents
lllegibe Addresses Require Sending of Thousands of
Letters Before 100000 Checks Can Be Mailed;
Average Is SIS, Total Monthly Disbursement
Exceeding ST 2000 900

WASHINGTON, March g. Poor
handwriting Of men in military or naval
service is largely responsible for a two
weeks delay in the distribution of gov
eminent checks for February pay allot-
ment and family allowances to depend
ents.
The last checks for families of sail
ors and members of the marine corps
and coast guard went into the mails to-
day, but checks for the army will not
be started until Monday, and it will
take two weeks to complete the task
Previous plans of the War Risk Insur-
ance Bureau has been to send the last
February checks to-day.
The delay resulted from the neces-
sity of disposing of a great mass of cor
respondence caused principally by illeg-
ible signatur or addresses in applca-
tions of soldiers and sailors. When
ever a name or address could not be de-
ciphered it was necessary to send a
query through the regular military
channels. This process required thou
sands of letters and the work of a big
Office force, which otherwise would have
been writing checks.
More than 100000 checks a month
have to be written. The average amount
of each check is about $25, and the
total monthly disbursement runs above
SIP 100000.
Three shifts of clerks have been at
work Acres of typists-2,3OO of then,
-twentyfour hours of every day have
clattered away on batteries of type
writers in several of the largest floor
spaces in Washington-a comman-
deered dance hall above the municipal
market, an abandoned hospital and q
factory building recently remodelled.
Machines To Do Work
The Treasury Departments Bureau
of War Risk Insurance expects to have
checks for March remittances ready for
mailing on the morning Of April /, anj
by that time much of the vast human
machine which has been built for pre-.
pairing the pay checks will be scrapped
Machines will do the work better, il
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Polish Tag Day Raises Fund
For Starving Children

Yesterday was Polish Children's Tag
Day in New York. Hundreds of coll
lectors were stationed at the impor-
tant points of Manhattan and The
bronx receiving the contributions that
VIII save the lives OF the unfortunate
little ones of Poland, 85 per cent of
whom are dying from starvation and
exposure. The amount collected will
be announced to-day by Mrs. Herbert
L: Satterlee, treasurer of the Polish
Children's Relief Fund.
An announcement has been made
that unless $150,000 is raised soon for
the fund, PIP asylums sheltering 1000
children will be closed.