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Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

porter of the resolution, but who is paired, desired to vote and could arrive by Saturday.
 With these votes, Senator Jones and other champions of the resolution be- 'lieved the necessary two- thirds ma Jority would be mustered on a final roll call. Opponents, however, were confident of having votes to insure it's defeat, even with absentees present
 Some senators supporting the reso- lution admitted tonight privately that, without any further change the feso- lution would be defeated by one vote. They said the latest private polls showed that the senate stood 63 to B in favor of the resolution just one short of two thirds majority.
 Almost the entire membership of the senate was present when Senator JoNes called up the resolution, many senators having come long distances The galleries were crowded, princi- pally by women representing nationa. organizations fdvoring or opposing the amendment for which suffrage forces have fought for half a century
 After many petitions for and against the resolution, including the woman's party bearing 50,000 names, had beer presented, debate began, and it con tinued until late in the day when the sent went into executive session tC consider other matters. Discussion centered principally on questions O race and states rights
 Senator Williams of Mississippi in troduced an amendment proposing t | enfranchise only white women, de | claring that adoption of it would re move most of the objection and pe1 init the senate to dispose of the reso lution and give it's attention ot prose cutting the war Before adjourning to night, the senate ordered a roll cal on the Williams amendment as tn | first order of business tomorrow. De | feat of the amendment generally wa 1 expected.
 Senator Hardwick of George als 1 opposed giving the vote to negr 1 women, declaring that it would add t | the white mans burden in the sout | because negro soldiers under consti tutions of most southern states ca
 vote after the war. Senator McKella of Tennessee declared that the fear
 of senators that the suffrage amend ment would disturb the racial fran ] chise situation in the south was un
 founded
 I While debate proceeded, often wit
 few senators present and with tn
 women spectators knitting and 8
 times conversing so loudly that tn
 presiding officer had to call for orde
 animated conferences by and betwee
 leaders of the opposing factions wer
 held on the floor, in cloak rooms an
 Hobbies. Last minute polls were take
 by the resolutions friends and leader
 said these prompted the decision { : defer a vote until Saturday,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
MICHIGAN REPlstlCANs
 IN STATE CONVENTtcN N

Grand Rapids. Mich, Sept. 2e.-Pa- 'riousm war the dominant theme at Inc republican state cCnventf6n here today ResoiutioTs demanding that tue war be fought to victorious fin sh and a conclusive peace were adopt d.
 An tho speakers. including Will H. Hays. chairman of the republican na- ..onai committee; United States Sena- .ur Charles F. Townsend and Gov lruor Albert M. Sleeper declared the .urest means 10 this end was the re- .urn Go power of the republican party
 An Inc present holders of state of- ires fer which the convention met to hoosA candidates were renominated q oy acclamution. They were: Secre- tary oi State Coleman C. Vaughan Attorney General Alex Groesbeck Auditor General O. B. Fuller and State Treasurer Samuel Odell.
 Both Mir Hays and Senator Town -rnd criticized Henry Ford Us a sena. torial possibility, terming him a pa eifst Rho opposed war, and an unbe lever in the American soldier.
 Reference also was made indirectly lc Mr Ford in the resolutions adopt -d. They advocate an amendment tt .uc primary law to prohibit a ma ANiu 1ttNAil- RAAANf piA ilAplt lhdN pil ticket Henry Ford in the Angus primaries made the senatorial race ol 10th the democratic and repuhlical tickets.
 Expenditures in the primary cam ourn Of Truman H. Newberry, tn rrpublican candidate for senator. wer feclared by Senator Townsend 10 hay ncen justified by the fact that tn honor and patriotism of Michigan wa % stake as we'll as the senatorial nom .ratfon"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
PERSHING REPORTS GREAT
 ADVANCE OF AMERICANS

Washington, Sept 26.-Attacking this morning over front of twenty miles, west of Verdun, in cooperation with the French. the American First Army advanced to an average depth of seven miles and captured twelve towns and more than 5000 prisoners. General Pershings communique fol- lows:
 Section A This morning north west of Nerdun the first army attack ed the enemy on a front Of twenty miles and penetrated his line to an average depth of seven miles.
 Pennsylvania, Kansas and Missouri troops serving in Major General LiG- gett's corps stormed Narennes, Mont Blainville, Vauzuois and Chappy after stubborn resistance. Troops of other corps, crossing the Forges Brook, cap tured the Bois de Forges and wrested from the enemy the towns of Malan- court. Bethincourt, Montfaucon, Cuisy Nantillos, Zeptzarges (Septsarges?) ? DanneouX and Gercourt ct Drillan- court. The prisoners thus far report ed number over five thousand
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
TERRIFIC STORM OFF COAST
 OF LOWER CALIFORNIA

San Diego, Calf, Sept 26.-In a terrific storm which ragged off Lower California and the northwest coast of Mexico Tuesday. Sept r, the United States shipping board vessels on their maiden trips were sunk; a fleet Of other craft was badly battered, the town of La Paz was partially destroy ed, and the floating equipment of the United States naval coal depot at Pichilinque was damaged.
 News of the havoc wrought by the storm was brought here today by a long overdue fishing launch.
 Several residents of La Paz were re ported killed. The crews of the yes sels sunk were rescued by passing steamers after being adrift three days in op-n boats.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
Senate POstpOnes Vote on Suffrage
Latest Poll Showed Senate is Divided 63 to B in Favor Just One Vote Short of Necessary Two-thirds.

Washington, Sept 26-The senate failed again today to reach vote on
 the house resolution proposing sub mission to the states of the Susan E. Anthony woman suffrage amendment to the constitution. After a day of conferences and of debate before crowded. gailerles, the senate ad- journed until tomorrow to continue the discussion, but with little likelihood of a vote before next Saturday, if then. Absence of senators favoring the
 resolution, defections it's advocates were reported to have suffered and 1 unexpected protraction of debate con l tributed to postponement of action and t othe disappointment of the immense
 throng of spectators which gathered in | the early morning and remained throughout the day
 1 The close lineup of the senate on
 the resolution was an admitted factor
 in today's inaction. Senator Jones ot | New Mexico. chairman of the woman
 suffrage committee, announced that | before pressing a vote managers o1 l the resolution desired to await the return of Senator La Toilette of Wis 1 eonsin, who favors the resolution an6
 who was mot paired" He is return ing from California and is due 1T
 Washington late Saturday. Senator Jones also said that Senator Town send of Michigan. another absent sup
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
PROTEST BARRING RAILROAD
 EMPLOYES FROM POLITICS

Washington, Sept 26.-Heads Of the four leading railroad brotherhoods con- ferred today with Director General McAdoo to protest against his recent order forbidding political activity by railway employees or officers. They expressed the belief that this restric- ton deprived them of natural rights which in some localities tended to safe guard their interests. MT. McAdoo explained that since railway lnen are now essentially government employees, it is essential that they ahs ain from political action, individually and con- certedly, to avoid any danger of any administration using such a great army of workers for partisan advan- tage. MT. ,McAdoo promised to write them a letter setting forth his views more fully and further conference: will be held.
 The brotherhood chiefs were War. ren s. Stone of the engineers: A. B Garretson of the conductors: Timothy Shea of the firemen, and w fi Lee, 0 | the trainmen.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
4 NEW OFFENSIVE BY THE
 AMERICANS AND FRENCH
In the Region Extending From the Northwest of Verdun to Within Is Miles of Rheims They Have Captured 12 Towns and More Than 5000 Prisoners-The Americans Advanced to Depth of Seven Miles

their rapid advances and the state Of confusion into which the Bulgarians and Germans have been thrown by the shock of the offensive.
 Likewise the Turks in Palestine are being sadly harassed by the forces Of the British General Allenby and the tribesmen of the kind of the Hedjas. Almost surrounded east of the Jordan, the Turks are frantically, endeavoring to extricate themselves from the con- verging allied forces. From the east and south the British are driving the Ottomans northward and coming south to meet the enemy and to crush him between the two allied lines arc the Arabs. Seemingly with all the crossings of the Jordan now in allied hands. the Turkish Fourth Army has little chance to escape.
 Taken in conjunction with the allied offensive which has bent back mate rially the German front in Flanders Artois and Picardy and along the Aisne, the new drive of Marshal Foch in the south will bear important fruit if it meets with success. Driving northward the entire western battle
 front would be shaken and of neces- sity be compelled to readadjust it's self Lateral railway lines of great importance to the German positions
 between Laon and Verdun line direct ly in the path of the advancing Fran
 CO., American forces. Vouziers, an i'm portan. railway junction, on the maiT ! line from I.aon to Metz is but twelv( miles north of Servon. which already | is in the hands of the French. The Americans through the capturi | of Gercourt northwest of Verdun. art 1 in the Meusa valley, which leads north
 ward 10 Sedan, and a little farthe
 west at Narennes, have won the Aisn' valley, which winds in a northwester | ly direction to Nouziers. A suceesSFu | advance alon@ these two valleys fo any appreciahle distance would be dis | astyous 10 the German lines from tn North Sea to the Swiss frontier. ! Northwest of Nerdun. Montfaucor
 Q German strong roint of great re 1 sistinG power is said to he m Amer ! ic~n hands as likewise ar2 severa ~tdcr villages between the Mouse an ! tro Nire.
 hrcurd ST. Quentin both the Brit irh and French armies have mad 'rrther advances against the Ger mrs 7nd repulsed heavy counter at tHci;s In Flanders and also near Ar ras the British have advanced thei
 fronts.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
WARRANT ISSUED FOR
 MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia Sept. PA warrant for the arrest of Mayor Thomas B. smith on charges of misbeha1ior and ID isdemeanor in office was issued to- Jay by a police magistrate on the af- -darit O. Otto T. Malloy, treasurer of .he Fairgrounds Association. W'no ac- uses the chief executive of illegal, wrongful and abusive" exercise of his official power in appointing an in eompetent and unfit person" as super isor Of recreation
 The magistrate fixed Oct for a hearing and notified the mayor that if be accepted service, the warrant would not be served. Bail was not required
 The issuance of the warrant is the outcome of a controversy between the mayor and former members of the board Of recreation who had refused Go appoint the man selected by the mayor for supervisor of playgrounds The mayor demanded and obtained the resignation of certain members of the board and appointed new members who confirmed the mayors selection for supervisor.
 This Is the second time Mayor Smith [ as been arrested since he took office he now being under indictment for ar alleged violation of an election law in connection with the Fifth Ward po- lltical battle last September.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
FURTHER TESTIMONY
 IN THE MELLEN CASE

Pittsfeld, Mass, Sept, 26-Mrs Charles $. Mellen and her oldest daughter Kathryn, were present for an hour today a the probate court hearing of Ar. Mellens petition for decree to permit him to live apart from his wife. While they were in the cOul ltToom Mir. Mellen testified in response to questioning by Mrs. Mel ien's counsel, Milton B. Warner. that his wife was accus omed to drinking and that he had taken a cocktail with her occasionally. He said he consid- cred this mo crime, but a very foolish custom" and that he had no bad hab- it's himself
 Mir Melien said that his wife ocea- s,onally darned her own stockings but he did not think this constituted her a thrifty housewife
 Under further examination Nr. Mellen said the firs3 time he struck his wife was after she had scolded their children for littering his desk He hit her in the face ard made her nose bleed. Asked if he had ever kicked his wife. he replied: "Once' He said he had black eye for two weeks after Mrs. Mellen had hit him with (. round piece of marble used in alarming stockings, in Novem- Der, 1917.
 Mr Mellen denied that he had known that Mrs. Douglas Brown of l New York planned to use letters writ 1 ten by Mrs. Mellen to Nr Brown in starting a suit against Mrs. Meilen for alienation of her husbands affections He said he had given Mrs. Brown SS, GOO for the letters.
 Until March, 1917. Mir. Mellen tes- tified. he gave his wife $4.O0O year At that time he cut off the allow ance. He gave his daughter kathryr | $1O0 a month with an equal amount at Christmas and on each of her birth 1 days
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
GRIP CANCELS CALL FOR MEN OCT. I'll
Because of the Epidemics in Army Camps Provost Marshal Crowder Has Suspended the Order Calling for 1420O0 Draft Registrants to Entrain Between Oct and H. Fully 5O,OOO Cases in Massachusetts.

busy trying to combat the disease that they had not time to comply with tht request ot the state health department that all cases be reported.
 The number of new cases during tie A hour period ended at noon today. Dr. Carey said. was 2.143 Dea ths re- ported for the same period were 76 These figures, however, did not in- clude this city. where fifty deaths from influenza and pneumonia were report ed during the period from 10 o'clock last night to noon today, the target total for a similar period since in- huenza became prevalent
 The alarming reports from many sections of the state caused State Health Commissioner Eugene R. KeJ ley to appeal to federal authorities for assistance. He declared that a hun dred physicians and 1000 nurses were 1.eeded immediately and suggested that the war and navy departments might organlze living squadron to help out the crlsis. In telegrams to Massa- chusetts senators and congressmen Pr. Kelley urged them to use their in nuence toward obtaining assistance Tor this state even to the extent ot congressional action if necessary.
 All theaters, moving picture shows, dance halls. "and other unnecessary places of public assembly" in this c::y l were ordered closed from midnight to- night until October 6. at a meeting to- day of the emergency health commit tee appointed by Mayor Andrew J. Pc ters. This action was in line with the suggestion in the proclamation oi Lieutenant Governor Calvin Coolidge calling attention to the seriousness o. l the epidemic. Schools and theaters 1T Lawrence. Lynn, New Bedford, Hol- yoke, Fall River and other places alsC were closed by the vote of mumcipa authorities In Wakefield, all the churches as well as schools were
 closed until further notice.
 In the city of Quincy. where 5000
 cases of influenza have developed. of fcials today described conditions a.
 encouraging" With the assistanc,
 of naval physicians it has been possi ble to give medical attendance to ev
 cry person requiring it and the mum
 Der of cases was believed to be de
 creasing.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
ADVANTAGES OF INLAND
 WATERWAYS EXPLAINED

Boston. Sept. 26-How the advan- tage of inland waterways in relieving congestion on the railroads is being fOrcibly brought to the attention of the government and the people, was told by speakers today at the convention here of the tlantlc Deeper Waterways Association 7,
 Murray Hurlbert, commissioner of docks and director of the port of New York, told of an application recently received for dock space for a steam ship line between Philadelphia and New York over the old Raritan Canal route. There was much opposition from railroad interests. he said, but the line started business and operated seven steamers. Shippers pay 40 per l cent more to ship by boat than by rail in order to get their goods de.iv- cred the next day instead of in week or two, MT. Hurlburt said. Judge William E. Willard of Al hany, said that with the Hudson River deepened at the upper end ships for Europe could be loaded at Albany and go direct Had the work been done before the war. material could be put aboard ships gt the arsenal at Water vliet and go direct to France, he add ed
 Congressman William $ Greene ot
 Fall River spoke on the advantages ot a canal from Fall River to Boston utilizing the Taunton river.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
Condensed TeIegrams

Another loan of s2,77o,ooo was made to Belgium.
 Seventy houses for war workers will be built at Aberdeen, N. D.
 The Porto Rican sugar crop for 1918 is estimated at 453, 796 tons.
 A shortage of vessels has caused record congestion of wheat at Ba ti more.
 Forty seven air raids were made on German towns in August Seventy nine persons were killed and 113 in- jured
 Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader kltchin, and other members of Con- gress went to Philadelphia for q visit to war plants.
 The Liberty Loan quota assigned to Fairfield County, Conn, is $1S,220, 100, Ii was announced here last night. The Railroad Administration reject
 ed suggestions made by short lines for I modification of the contract offered by
 thee government
 Officials of the American Button Co.,,
 of Newark, were charged by , coro-
 ner'S jury with gross negligence in not | having proper fire protection. The American German War Prison CTS Conference began at Berne under the presidency of Paul Dinichert, Swiss Minister Plenipotentiary.
 steam lighter of Rudolph Bros,
 was sunk in the North River off War
 ern Street, New York in ;t collision with warship. No one was injured l A number of French and British of- f1cers have taken refuge in the Aneri-
 can consulate at Moscow, which is lln-
 der the protection of Norway. The delegation of American social
 ists that visited Europe recently called
 at the White House to submit a re-
 port of their work to the President The American Red Cross received an additional list of 260 American
 prisoners who are interned. Many of
 them were sent to Stuttgart and Metz
 The Wisconsin legislature met in ispecial session to appropriate $150,- . 900 to be used in the erection of bar racks for a student army training corps.
 A 10-inch shell weighing 700 pounds was found at Canal and Wtst streets New York. The shell was said to be
 asrelic of the Black Tom explosion. Nineteen steel cars, loaded with zinc
 and limestone were piled in mas, as the result of a wreck on the Penn sylia Railroad near Phillipsburg, N J Draft Director Comboy announced that the same physical regulations a obtain for the navy and marine corp. T as govern the induction of men into H the army.
 Representatives of the railway A brotherhoods filed protests with Di H rector General McAdoo against th' X order prohibiting railroad employee \ from participating in politics. I Secretary Redfield, speaking at tn l Atlantic Deeper Waterways Associa 1 tion convention at Boston, said that < coastal canal would relieve the coa situation in New England. Richard H.. Long, a Framinghar manufacturer, was nominated for gov ernor by the Democrats in Massa chusetts. The Republicans nominate Lieutenant Governor Coolidge. = prices on their manufactured product
 nounced that for the present he wou IS refrain from issuing statewide or d der with regard to the influenza epi
 demic and would leave precautionar d measures to local health authorities > An estate with buildings capable I- housing 800 beds has beeN leased | altthe New York Catholic War Fund an e will be converted into a convalesce1 ts home for returned wounded soldiers.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
DETAILS OF DESTRUCTION
 OF TWO GERMAN SUBS

London. Sept 26.-The destruction of two submarines. by British naval craft is thus described: The captain of destroyer saw a German U-boat at tack merchant steamer two miles off. The destroyer went to the assist ance of the steamer, and the 3ubma rine dived.
 When 1 judged that we were di- rectly over her. l let go a depth charge with a lifebuoy to mark the spot" said the captain. Within fifteen sec onds of the explosion the submarine came to the surface with a slight list tC starboard. Immediately the con- nIng tower showed above water all our starboard guns opened fire. and the coming tower was ridded."
 A British submarine accounted for ! the other German U-boat.
 "I fired both bow torpedoes almost simultaneously" said the captain Of the British submarine and about half a minute later there was d terrific eX- p.osion, big flame and a fountain of
 water a hundred feet high The Ger man submarine totally disappeared. | There was lot of oil about and the
 smell of parafine, but ho sign of any
 part of the boat. I heard shouting in
 the water and picked up one man."
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

country are at the gates of Ishtib, and their cavalry. entering the town Of Is-i Nor, has cut the only remaining road northward-that running from Pfilep to Neles. and along which large body of Bulgarians is reported to be at tempting to eSeape. This probably will lead to an Abandonment by the enemy of the Babuna Mountains, which are considered virtually impregnablc.
 The review of the first days fighting in this attack shows that it is not q case of the allies chasing an enemy who was willing to retreat On Sept. IS Greek and British forces attacked on either side of Lake Doiran, which lies almost at the eastern extremity of the present line. West of the lake the allies captured the ridge running | from Doiran town westward, but the allied left was driven back Some | Bulgarian outposts east of tine lake were captured, but all attacks against the Bulgarian main line were fruitless
 The next day the allied troops gain ed a little more ground west of the lake, but were unable to hold all their gains. The Bulgarians are described as having put up determined resist ance in the fierce fighting.
 | The next day, however, tke Serbs l ian front further westward and the Eulgarians began a general retrea; along the whole line which since has | developed into rout. The reports ot | prisoners and guns taken are not sur prising owing to the rapid advance ot the allies and the centering of allied energies in getting to their objectives
 It was reported this afternoon that Italian cavalry had reached the roaC running from Prilep westward. Whicl affords the only avenue through tht mountains for the escape of the Firs Bulgarian Army, which is considered to be in most dangerous position.
 It is pointed out that prior to thu beginning of this push the allies hat nc great superiority in numbers ant that they face a stupendous task il maintaining communications througl the fifty miles they have penetra ted Some of this country is extremel. rough.
 Even should the allies not take Us kub or if there should be some othe development which would prevent tn making of the victory a decisive one tine experts believe that the Bulgar ians have suffered so heavily in me army will be able to recover withou the aid of the Central Powers, an
 that contingency is viewed as unlike l. ly.
 At any rate the Serbians have re
 gained the greater part of Serbia
 Macedonia.