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Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
NUMEROUS REQUESTS IN
 WILL OF JAMES STOKES

Ridgeheld Conn. Oct. 29-Numer- GUS societies and benevolences benefit h. the will of James StoKes. million aire philsnthrUpst of New ! oIk md Rldseheld, fled in tEc probate court here today Ir..Stokes liec here eD October ( His widow, Florence Chat field Stokes, and the Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New-yofk Are made executors and trustees.
 To his widow is oequeathed all his personal belongings, furnituFe and au- tcmobiles; the town house at sS Park Place, New York arS all previous gifts to her are-conh. med. She also made trustee of'a $900 000 fund to be Used for the. benefit of his brothers, homas and William and his sister. Olivia The sum of $50 900 is set aside for use by the widow for .rela- ives, friends and former $ servants. A like sum Is named. the income of which is to go to his brother Thomas and each brother and sister is left S2,- 900 to purchase some remembrance of Mir. Stokes. To each niece and ne- lphew S1.000 is left for the same pur- pose. G- -5A i To cousins are left Requests of s1o,- LOCO and Si5.000; to John R. Mott and D rankin Gaylord, who carried on charitable work for Mr. Stokes abroad, SlO,OO0 and Sl5, 900. respetcive- llv. sl0,000 to his secretary, ;. r. Woodruff: S1O,OOO to Dr. Boudinot At iterby; S15.000 to Mrs. Melissa Messy, 'tIese latter two being cousins.
 Among the gifts to institutions are sl20,0 to New York University to increase salaries and for course of lectures dealing with political sub iects; s5,090 to New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: {. 900 to T.. W. c. A. of New York i; ss5 900 r. M. c. A. of New York;; sIo.- on0 for a special fund to aii girls in the New York Y Ws>C.aA.. respectfully during lunch honrs7; $25,Oo9 for Y
 V. c. A. country rest house: s2o 00O to Y. M. c. A. at Ansonia: S5, GOO each to New York orphan asylum, Nation al Y. NJ. c. A 'board: Society for the Improvement of the Poor. '. NJ z. A at Wesleyan University and the Bible and Truth Mission of New York
 No estimate of the value of the cs- tates has yet been made.
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raised by any party: You must elect republican congress to uphold the hands of democratic president.
 During the months that the presi- dent and leaders of his rarty have been busy with policies. 10 win the war, continued the secretary, "repub- lican politicians and reactionary would-be profteers have been think ing of nothing but capturing congress. Such would-be profiteers have called upon their fellow reactionaries to put np more money to carry congress this year than we spent in 1916" Why? They try to camouf1age the people by saying they do not like the, brand of notes coming from Wilson's type writer. No more does the kaiser or the Junkers. But Great Britain, France, Italy and all democratic na- uions in Europe endorse them and make them their own.
 Let the people know the secret of the big money the reactionists are putting up to elect a republican con gross. These men from Piunderbund are not thinking about patriotism but about securing permanent peace. or even about war. They are thlnkinl about after the war and they are straining every nerve to secure a con- gress that will repeal or destroy the wholesome legislation and progressive steps which have marked Wilson's administratio
 Tt is not the plain voter of any party, his heart afame with patriotic zeal who has for weeks been playing politics with the gravast consequences that ever confronted mankind It is the republican politician, who some times poses as a statesman. who has | busted himself with raising false is sues in order to try to get control of congress. He is not pro- German He | simply has forgotten his duty as an American and dropped down to his lower plane as a partisan. Forgetting the weightest matters, he beats the party tom toms and raises ancient po- l litical catch phrases in the hope that the people can be made to forget the | one domina ting issue:
 ''Is America to bring the war lords
 to their knees and lead in securing i permanent peace
 That is the only issue. Woodrow | Wilson is the chosen leader of Ameri-
 ca. His fourteen demands in his ad-
 dress of January 5 have been endorsed i by every disinterested statesman in
 the world It is the greatest utter
 ance of the war. The war will not
 end until those fourteen principles are
 secured"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
WOULD HAVE SOUND STEAMERS
 DOCK IN THE EAST RIVE R

New York. Oct PA letter from Secretary of Commerce Redf1eId fa- voring the transfer Of the terminal piers of Long Island Sound steamers plying between New England points and New York from their present North River location to the East River was made public here today by Murray Hubert, commissioner of oocks.
 Secretary Redfeld estimated 2,500 miles of useless navigation" through the most congested part of New York harbor would be saved by the trans fer, and that many collisions prob ably would be averted. By having the shallow draft Sound vessels dock at East River piers instead of continuing on around the tip of Manhattan Isl- and to the North river. the secretary added, the North River piers now used by these lines could be made availa ble for ocean, going deep draft steam ships, which cannot make use of the East River piers because of tie pres ence of rocky shoals in, this stream
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
DOCUMENTS WHICH MAY
 PROVE OF GREAT INTEREST

New York, Oct. 29-Jotn Madrasz, a naturalized Austro- Hua garian also known as John Skotty, was under ar rest here today, charged with keeping in his possession without authority documents which were the property of the Trans Atlantic Trust Company, of this city, an i nstitu!ion recently taken over by the alien property GUS todian. According to Assistant Dis trict Attorney Ryttenberg, the action was taken against Madrasz at the in- stance of ths federal authorities, who expect important disclosures to re- suit.
 The documents he is accused of keeping consist of. lists of Austro- Hun sarians in this country, it was said. totalling 20 900 names. Virtually all of those listed are said to be un- naturalized. Madrasz. or Skotthy, was said at the district attorney's office to be one of the most widely known Hun garians in this country. After his ar- rest he informed the authorities. it was stated, that he had heen for fif- teen years a confidential adviser of the Austro Hungarian embassy at Wash ington.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
lBy The Associated. Press.l

In the Italian theater over a front Of nearly forty miles from tine Brenta tu the middle reaches of t5e Piave rINer, the British, French and Italian armies are developing success in an offensive against the AIsuo- Hungar ians and arc swiftly driving them from tfe mountain passes toward the Aus tfian frontier and across the plains east Of the Piave in northern Italy. , American reserves. arc bahird the lines prepared to aid when the Cppor- tune moment arrives.
 On ai, the othe: battle fronts the allied arms continued to be served In Iel=ium there has been iiLtle lighting except by the artillery wings of tho cpposing armies while in the regian around Naienciennes the engagements tctWeen the British and the Germans have savOred more of outpo5- lncoun- tcrs than pitched battles. In whatever fghting there has been, however. Field Marshal HsiEs man have retained the upper hand and taken more prisoners and additional guns and war stores.
 Farther south the French are con- tinuing successfully their process of levellin- the old salient between the tCrritory east Of St Quentin and Eethcl. Additional p~ocress has been ii'''' "N FSiieIdl DFDGueS \ - tTOOIS udinr the violent resistance c the Germans, who all along the front are using machine guns to re- tard tho advance of the. Frenchmen toward the important lines of railway C~nlmuniaction to the east. On some s-" ors the Germans gre slowly re- treating. but nowhere are the French patrols permitting the enemy to get out of contact with them
 side from artillery and paehine gun activity there has been little ( htng on the part Of the front held L. the Americans from the Mouse river to the vicinity of GrQndpre, The
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Condensed TeIegrams

Czech authorities took over the control of food in Bohemia.
 British casualties for the week end ed Oct 2S numbered 32,249.
 Belgian cabinet, now at Havre, will remove to Belgium this week.
 Production of bituminous coal for the week ended Oct. 19 was II ,500,- 900 tons
 Poperty damage at the earthquake in Porto Rico is estimated at more than s1,O0O,0O0
 inet of Emperor Karl of Austria, committed suicide.
 It was decided by the Senate that $50, O,Oo0,00 will be available for car ing for power subjects.
 Eighteen vessels of nearly 100000 deadweight tons were delivered to the Shipping Board last week
 Congress completed work on the Army Deficiency bill It now goes to the President for his signature.
 Application of the order barring women conductors in Cleveland was postponed from Nov. 1 until Dec. 1.
 An increase in wages of Shipyard workers was announced by the Ship building and Labor Adjustment Board
 E%POFCS oT puiP anu paper tHCtAO- . ing pulpwood, were increased $2,557,- 129 in August over the same month a year ago.
 An American soldier in France re- leased hand and foot controls on an airplane and let it fly 20 miles before it landed.
 President Shonts, in his annual re- port of the New York Railways, says receiyership is inevitable unless fares are raised.
 Holland postmen have. requested permission to wear wooden shoes when delivering letters because of the scarcity of leather.
 War Industries Board announced present price of 26 cents pound fol copper will remain in effect for No vember and December. War Industries Board announced in Washingto that Premier Venizelos will make a trip to this country tc consult President Wilson. Railroad Administration authorized the operating of short lines of th'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30

Washington, Oct. 29.-In the absence of any official announcement. there was a somewhat widespread impres- sion here tonight that Austria's re- newed appeal to President Wilson for an immediate armistice and peace would be transmitted to the allied governments before which Germany's request has been placed.
 The official text of the Austrian note was delivered to Secretary Lansing today by the Swedish minister soon after the regular Tuesday meeting of fhe cabinet, at which it was under stood the unofficial version as trans mitted by The Associated Press from Basel, Switzerland, was given consid- eration. If any definite conclusion was reached, the fact was not revealed, officials stating that they could not indicate what disposition would be made of the note in advance of a care ful study of the official version.
 The text received at the Swedish legation was in French and it has not yet been translated at the state de- partment. After preliminary exam inaticn it was said there that it did not differ essentially from the unoffi cial as received from Switzerland.
 In some quarters there was dis position to accord different treatment to the Austrian request than was given the plea of the German govern ment. In this connection reference was made to cable despaches today re- porting the establishment of the inde. pendent state of Hungary of the rec ognition by that state of the inde- pendence of the Czecho- Slovak anG Jugo-Slav provinces and also of Ger. man Austria as suggesting the intro. duction of complex factors into tht
 problem of settling with the dual em | pire. Even if each of the many na tionalities that make up that empire becomes independent before peace ii
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
DANIELS PRAYS FOR
 PEACE WITHIN 90 DAYS

Newport R. l., Oct. 29.-Plenty of work after the war was promised mu- nitions workers at the naval torpedo station here by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who made an unexpected visit to this city today. The secretary ad- dressed officers, enlisted men, yeo- women and many men and women munitions workers in front of the ccmmandant's house at the station and then went to the naval training station, where he reviewed a brigade of apprentice seamen and later ad- dressed the men.
 The secretary was enthusiastic in his praise for the munitions workers and declared that without their ef- forts it would have been impossible for the American destroyer f1otilla to have made it's splendid showing against the U-boats
 When German autocracy is destroy ed,'' he said, "as I pray God it will be within the next thirty days, and as it is sure to be by the prowess of our arms, there is going to be a big job for the navy. So the great esti- mate which We have begun here is but the foundation upon which we will build a larger naval establishment
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arranged, it was said that they stil must bear their individual shares of the responsibility for the acts commit ted by the empire. Logically, each might have to sue for a separate peace.
 However, it is believed that the American government will not be di- verted from the pursuit of its main object by the consideration of these individual uprisings in Austria-H Hun gary. It probably will follow consist. ently the course pursued in dealing with Germany and insist on treating first the proposition for an armistice. which it regards as purely military question, leaving to the final peace conference the adjustment of the dlaims to independent existences of the various oppressed nationalitiee in Austria Hungary.
 Vienna's plea for an armistice is interpreted quite generally in military l circles here as an offer to capitulats | as completely as did Bulgaria. Mii- | tary officials both allied and Ameri- | can, believe that the complete elfmi-
 nation of Austria Hungary as 8 belngs
 erent would bring the world war with | in sight of an end. The greatest fear
 the Germans have, they say, is of in-
 vasion of German sail, and in the end. they believe, Germany will capitulate 1 raIher than race that contingency.
 Assessing the probable results of
 Austrian surrender, officers pointed out
 that it would release the Italian armies
 for operations elsewhere. Unless Fur key also has dropped out of the fight
 by that time, it would sem logical, it
 was said, to expect that these forces
 would be turned at once to pressing the campaign against Constantinople. With Turkey also out, the two Italian | divftions now in France coul1 be quickly supplemented and another
 great army erected on that front to l crush the wavering German lines
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30

Germans have been heavily bombing the American positions with shells of all calibre. including gas projectiles, with the Americans. answering them shot for shot. The new big guns of the Americans are violently smelling German positions far behind the lines, taking under their fire towns of stra- tegic importance from the standpoint of communications and troop forma- tions preparing to be sent as rein. forcements to salient points of the crnmbling battle line.
 Conf1ans, lying to the west of Metz and the principal junction point Of communication with the big fortress on the Moselle and Spincourt and Dommary- Baroncourt also important railroad functions, all were under q particularly heavy fire from the AmeT- icdn guns throughout Tuesday. In addition American aviators continual iy are lending their aid to the big guns in the process of blasting enc my positions and troop concentration roints inside the German lines. In the latest operations by the aviators nine German machines were sent crashing.
 Large numbers of prisoners and numbers of guns have been taken by the allied troops in the big battle that is in progress on the Italian front. The allies, particularly the British. are well across the Piave river from where the battle line in the mountains curves and bends southward toward the Adriatic. The latest British orFi : cial communication announces that the oppositionsof the Austro- Hungar- ians appears to be weakening in the face of the attacks of the British tenth army which. is successfully driv- ing northeastwar1,--.
 Reports are to the effect that an Independent state has been formed in Hungary There also are reports that Turkey has made an independent peace proposal
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
GERMANS IN PANIC WHEN
 BOMBS STRUCK COLOGNE

London, Oct 29 (British Wireless Service) Civilian departures from the lower Rhineland and part of Vest phalia, which were begun on a small scale when the first allied bombs hit Cologne have developed into panic flight according to The Hague corre- spondent of the Daily Mail. All the banks are being stormed by deposit ors who are withdrawing their savings in German bank notes of as high a value as are obtainable, the 100 mark note having an appreciable market value over lower currency. But even small notes. of one mark, are being taken eagerly.
 Not only are some of the banks at their wits end for legal currency to pay out deposits, but in places, espe- cially Cologne and Dusseldorf, all eX- cept local. and therefore valueless, currency has disappeared as if by magic.
 Everybody who possibly can afford it is trying to make his or her way eastward. Scores of houses stand empty.
 Even in Berlin financial panic has seized the people and the ordinary paper currency of the empire has van ished. The municipality has been com pelled to issue emergency currency to the value of about fifty million marks, valid until Feb, 1 next within the con | fines of Greater Berlin. Tradesmen may refuse to accept this currency, or at least decline to change the notes except when compelled to take them in payment for goods already deliv- cred.
 The big German banks have publish ed flaming appeals to ''our fellow citi- zens" not to withdraw deposits and not to hoard currency notes. But the rush on the banks has grown worse l than ever
 The working population of Cologne seeing the war factories closed down 1 big houses evacuated and eastbound trains crowded with well-to-do fugi- tives, are demanding immediate peace more insistently than ever Demon strations have been increasingly vio- 1 lent. manifesto which has been is sued by a section of the social demo I crats declares that if the emperor does not voluntarily abdicate he will be re- moved. It says: If the necessity arises and the hour comes, the organ iZed masses of labor, with strong mid 1 dle class support, will remove every 1 hindrance to peace which does no voluntarily yield to the will of the huge majority of the people,"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
TO MAKE GREATER USE OF
 LOWER GRADES OF COTTON

Washington, Oct, 29.-In line with the governments announced policy to force g greater use of the lower grades of cotton thereby stabilizing the price. manufacturers of cotton fab rics for the army and navy hereafter will discontinue consumption of more higner grades than necessary, using instead grades below middling
 The cotton distribution committee announced today that this agreement was made at a meeting of represen- tatives of the army and navy, war in dustries board and National Council of Cotton Manufacturers.
 Goods manufactured on government contracts will be judged by their strength, serviceability ani suitability fer purposes intended rather than by inc grade of cotton used ill theil manufacture. This will apply also to goods made for the public,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30

country on parity to unify the na- tion transportation system.
 Exportation of binoculars, sextants, compasses, chronometers and similar instruments for the navigation and equipment of ships, was prohibited.
 Fourteen Germans were arrested while loading munitions on floats at Jersey City. They were charged with violating the enemy alien barred zone act.
 On the basis of incomplete reports regarding the registration on Satur- day of men IS to 45 years. Adjutant- General Wilson estimated that 15000 persons registered in the island of Porto Rico.
 Federal Judge Waddili at Norfolk, Va, dismissed an indictment recently returned against Colgate and Com pany for alleged violation of the sherman law.
 The number of new cases of infIu enza and pneumonia continue to show a slight increase in army camps over the country.
 Massachusetts men stationed at Camp Devens will cast their votes in the coming state election today in- stead of election day, next Tuesday
 Capt. Paul West, whose body was found in the Seine river, was chief of the editorial and historical bureaus of the American Red Cross in Paris.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
U. S. HAS ENTERED STALLION
 IN NATIONAL HORSE SHOW

New York, Oct. 29-The United States government has entered the thoroughbred stallion Adams Express in the annual exhibition of the Ma tional Horse Show Association, to be held in Madison Square Garden the week of November Il, it was an nounced tonight So far as is known. this is the first time the government ever appeared in the horse show ex- hibitor
 Adams Express, which is regarded by experts as the most perfect speci- men of horsehesh in the army will be exhibited to show the type of horse suitable for improving the nations cavalry stock.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
MANUFACTURERS TO MEET
 IN NEW YORK TODAY

New York, Oct. 29 Prominent manufacturers began arriving in this city today from every state in the union to attend the ninth annual con- vention of the American Manufac- turers' Export Association which will open a two day session tomorrow at the Waldorf Astoria. The convention will be given over to the discussion of after war plans of foreign trade in terests. Sir Henry Babingsen Smith, K. C. R., acting high commissioner for Great Britain: Secretary Redfeld, Ed ward N. Hurley, Frank A. Nanderlip and Martin w Littleton are among the speakers.
 Financing of foreign trade. foreign credit, foreign advertising, Hatents and trademarks, commercial treaties and agreements and our after-war shipp- ing will be dealt with.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
AN EXCITING SESSION
 OF THE SPANISH COATES

Paris. Oct. 29.-(Havas). An ex- citing sitting took place in the Span ish Cortes yesterday. according to a despatch from Madrid to the Petit I'1risien. -r- -.r
 Count Romanes. the minister of pub lie instruction, condemned. the unre- ,stricted neutral policy of the Spanish government and other orators spoke in a similar vein. Count Romanenes asserted that Spain should adopt, a broadly policy. He added that if Spain wanted to enjoy lasting peace she must declare her position without hesitation
 Premier Maura. according to the despatch, declared his intention of re- signing. He declared the political crisis would then become acute and that the entire nation would he com Ielled to intervene in order to hiring about a solution.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
RUMANIAN INFANTRY
 ORGANIZED IN SIBERIA

Washington. Oct. 29.-A brigade of Rumanian infantry has been organ ized in SiberIa to fight with Entente troops, said cablegram received to- day by Professor T. G. Masaryk, pres ident of the Czecho-SloVftk National Council. The unit is composed of Ru- manians of Austria Hungary who, the message said, were taken prisoner by the Russians in the early days of the war and sent to Siberia as prison sers.
 Rumanians of Austria Hungary all so are fighting under the allied com mand in France and Italy,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-30
CHARLES E. HUGHES CALLS
 FOR NATIONAL UNITY

New York, Oct. 29-Calling for ma tional unity after the methods of republic and not an autocracy," and deploring President Wilson's assump- tion that only the returne of demo- cratic majority would uphold his nas tional leadership Charles E. Hughes declared in an address here tonight that bipartisan support alone would save the president from the lesser dignity and influence of mere party leadership"
 Must we republicans" he asked; "patriotically toll and give without seeking voice in the national assem !: bly, yielding our representation to democrats, not as more worthy or more loyal, not as more sacrificing or more intelligent, but to democrats as such, simply because they are demo- crats s?'