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Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
A CAMPAIGN AGAINST
 GAMBLING IN NEW YORK.
It is Expected Sensational Disclosures Will Be Made.

New York, Feb. A-District Attorney
 Swann began today before Judge
 Wadhams in the court of general ses-
 sions the John Doe" inquiry which he
 expects to result in sensational dis
 closures relating to the activity of
 gamblers and many indictments. The chief witness today was Simon Kaiser, Brooklyn contractor, who said he lost $500 playing esbanker and broker" in the Harlem apartment of woman known as. Madame Rick hard He was introduced to the game by an old friend while his wife was in Atlantic City. He lost only $165 the
 first night, he said. The later sessions were played in the hope of recouping i losses. tt H x The friend who first took him to Madame Richards felt so sorry fbr | him, Kaiser said that he enlisted the
 services of an acquaintance whe pos
 sessed a trick deck with which he l could not lose. After playing an hour | with these magic cards. the witness declared, he was out s1 1,500. It was | evident, however, that he did not lose | faith in them, or. in their owner, for he went back the next night with | S3 900. He did not play. but supplied 1 the funds for his friends. They lost | it all, Kaiser declared, to MT. Lamb, who had acted as banker at all the l sittings.
 When Kaiser left the stand Mir. Swann asked for warrants for. Madame Rickhard and the men with whom | Kaiser played
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bring about an amelioration of the political questions affecting Ger many and the dual monarchy and to doubtless lay plans to combat the peace views and desires of large parts of the populations in the two coun- tries.
 Apparently with the Germans it was a case Of bitter having been bit in their attack on the American sector in Lorraine Saturday. Although the at- tack was sudden one and the Ger mans laid down heavy barrage along the American line of several kilome- ters, the Americans responded and with their. 75's tore up the German front trenches, blew up several o1 their dugouts and cut their barbed wire entablements, causing damage which it will require several days tc repair. Little damage was done the American positions. Seemingly the Americans out-fabed the enemy on his initial point of assault and later ever extended their zone of bombardment over a wide region. ..l
 On the other battle fronts the oper- ations of the infantry continue of 6 minor character, although the artil- lery duels are intense on certain sec tors in Belgium and along the AiSns in France. After weeks of watchfu waiting there still is no indication that the Germans contemplate at an earl, date their promised big offensiv, against the entente fronts, which has been asserted would be deifvere, with the old armies reinforced by tn troops brought from the Russian thea | ter.
 During the past week the tota British casualties were 6,354-th smallest number in many months.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05

From the meagre accounts of the economic situation in Germany reach ing neutral countries-and they are meagre to a degree-the general strike that prevailed throughout the empire last week has virtually ended. Ap- parently the hard hand of the military authorities had much to di with the breaking up of the movement on the part of the workers, whose full ener- Eies are required by the government at the present moment to aid in the prosecution of the war for even their leaders are reported to have advised the men to return to their jobs
 The proclamation of martial law in Ber7in and throughout Brandenburg by the military commander evidenly had It's full effect, for. with the threat of summary courtmartial and execu- ton staring them in the fact, the strikers carried out no disorders in Berlin Saturday, like those earlier in the week
 Industrial quietude now seems to pervade the entire country, except at Jena. capital of the Duchy of Saxe- Wsimar. where new, trouble has arisen. 1t is not Improbable that the strike here has been engendered by sympa- thetic feelings on the part of the nu- merous students in this educational center.
 That under the surface the political waters in Germany and Austria Hun gary sti1 are seething is indicated by the announcement that the German and Austro- Hungarian foreign min isteFs and General Won Ludenorf, chic of the German war lords, next to Vor Hindeburg, are to gather togetSer ir close conference in an endeavor tt
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be issued, win comprise all other work. 7
 'sThe classification of an order,p the committee states, simply means that it shall be given such precedence over orders of lower classification as may. l be necessary tand only such aS f14x be necessary to insure delivery or <15
 date specified in the order This 15ez not mean that work shouzd cease s= orders of lower cEassifdation or +taz i the order should be conpleted and delivery made in advande Q exts< | taking a lower classiicaticr # f5IS ls not necessary to effect delivery within the date specified. The one to whom l a priority certificate is directed should
 make his own production plans, so as to get the maximum of efficiency out 1 of his operations, making all deliveries
 at the times contracted for, if possib6e,
 and, where this is not possible, giving precedence to the orders taking the highest classification Y =
 Blanket certificates of priority will not be issued in any case. Certificates will apply only to specific orders for materoals. commodities or work
 Application for priority should be made by the person placing the order in the name of the department for which the order is placed, but pro- vision is made for government con tractors to make application direct Ii I their need is urgent
 The regulations are subscribed to by
 the secretaries of war and navy, the chairman of the shipping board, tht president of the emergency fleet cor l poration and the chairman. of tht I council of national defense.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
AN APPEAL MADE TO
 EDUCATE WOMEN sPEAKERs
By Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt to Elm phasize Message of War Necessities.

Washington, Feb. 4.- Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman of the ed- ucational propaganda department of the woman's committee of the Coun- cn of National Defense, today appeal ed to the women of America to edu- cate women speakers to bring the message of war necessity to all com mittee
 The supreme need in our work says Mrs. Catt, sis few good speakers among the women in each state who will be available for large meetings and who will be active in following them up with lively and ef- fective campaigns in the smaller com munities."
 This is in line with the campaign of the council of national defense and speaking division of the committee on public information to establish speakers bureaus in every state. UT to January 15. twenty-five states had such bureaus; six reported that they were planning to organize them and six more reported that the four min ute men are. utilized as speakers bureau.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
TESTING coNsTTTuTioNALiTY
 :1 oF STATE TAX LAW
Administrators of the Estate of Will
 jam H. Field.


 < Hartford, Conn, Feb. 4-wiIliam H. Cerbin, state tax commissioner, and Frederick S. Chamberlain, state treas urer. were made defendants today in proceedings brought in the superior court by the administrators of the es- tate of William H. Field, in which is raised the question of the constitu- tionality of Chapter 2Ss of the public acts of 1915 under which the state seeks to collect $12,1s4 from the Field estate. Field died at Greenwich in ministrators, Alice Field of Green wich, and William M. Snyder and L. Eugene Field of Brooklyn, N. T., con- tend that the statute is unconstitu- tiona1. They also contend that in the event of 1t being found constitutional the state would be entitled to only a little more than $3,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
GOV. PHILLIP ADVISES
 LAFoLLETE TO RESIGN
And Ask the People of Wisconsin for a Reelection.

Watertown, Wis, Feb. 4-Governor E. l.. Philipp, addressing a mass meeting here tonight, said that if Sen ator La Toilette in the performance of his duty has committed an offence againsit the government, the United States senate should give him a prompt and fair trial and if it finds him guilty he should be expelled If, on the other hand, he has committed no offence that disqualiies him as a senator or a patriotic citizen, the . United States should say so and the public trial of the senator should end, the speaker said
 If were Senator Ia Follettes po- ntical or personal friend" he cortin- ued, T would advise him to insist up- on immediate disposition of the case that has been brought against him fin the senate. Whether he retains his seat or not, he should resign and ask the people of the state for a re-elec- don- There is no better way to de- termine whether he reprsnts the will of the people. No doubt he thinks he does. I think otherwise. However enough has been said in criticism of his action. that only vote. by the people which passes upon him di- rectly can settle the question beyond further dispute5
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
STORY OF THRILLING
 DUEL ABOVE THE CLOUDS
By Francis, Peabody Masoun, Jr. a Harvard Graduate.

& Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 4. - The
 shooting down of crack German avi-
 ator in a thrilling duel far above the
 clouds by Francis Peabody Magoun,
 IT,, a Harvard graduate, now sec-
 ond lieutenant in the Royal Flying
 corps, was described in a brief let
 ter from him which his parents in this city made public tonight Magoun,
 who was graduated from Harvard in
 1915, has been with the British fore les for some time but has been on &C.,
 tive duty over the fighting lines some where in France only two months He was flying a scout plane on De- cember 6. more than 10000 feet from the lines, he wrote, when he encount- cred a German fier.
 It was the young Americans first combat, but, joclying for position, he suddenly out-manoeuvred his oppon- ent and let go with his machine gun. The duelists were so near each oth- CT that Magoun said he could see
 clearly every feature of his opponent, and could see him crslmpIe up as the
 bullet struck him squarely in the fore head. It developed later, Magoun ] wrote, that the German was one of the
 most noted in his corps, with record
 of downing sixteen allied planes.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
MOVE TO AVERT ICE ! FAMINE NEXT SUMMER
Mayor HyIan of New York Encourages
 Storage of Natural Ice.

New York, Feb 4-To encourage the harvesting and storage of natural ice to meet what Mayor Hylan terms ian almost certain famine next sum mer," every facility and resource of the city was today pledged by the mayor to assure a profitable return upon the money and time of persons who would undertake now the storage of ice formed by recent cold weather in the rivers and lakes Of this state and Maine.
 The assurance was given in state. ment issued from the mayors office, in which he said that nearly all the ice used in the city in summer months is manufactured through the agency of, ammonsa. q have been warned" the statement adds. that every drop of that chemical will be 'commandeer- ed by the federal government or the manufacture of munitions. This means that the artificial ice business in New York will be a negligible one this summer .r
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
MONDAY coLDEsT DAY
 OF YEAR AT CHICAGO
The City is in the Grip of the Worst
 Fuel Famine in Its History.

Chicago, Feb. 4. Il Chicago's third heatless Monday, also the coldest day of the year, saw the city in the grip of the worst fuel famine in it's history
 Suffering was widespread, hundreds of persons besieging the offices of the fuel administration for the wink coal slips which proved va1ueless when presented at many yards which were closed because of lack of fuel.
 Hotels were crowded with house. holders who had closed their homes because of lack of fuel. In the poor CT quarters of the city neighbors ,hud- dled together in the homes having fuel.
 With the temperature 10 degrees be- low zero, linen, women and children formed long. shivering lines before coal yards begging meagre supplies which were carried off in baskets Meantime hundreds of carloads of coal destined to Chicago were tied up in the traffic channels choked by recent blizzards
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
REHABILITATING OF INLAND
 WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION
Plan Laid Before House Rivers and
 Harbors Committees.

Washington, Feb 4.-Representativ Small chairman of the house rivers and harbors committee, tonight laid before Director General McAdoo a plan for rehabflitating inland water way transportation, which, he says, has the approval of President Wilson and Secretary Redfeld.
 MT. Small pointed out that rail rates, where in competition with water routes are ahnormalfy low and said this fact alone was responsible for the fact that this means of transportation was not available. He suggested that, with the government in charge of both rail and inland water transportation, rates could be readjusted and joint ran and water terminals be provided so that fullest benefit might be de- rived from an facilities.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
ALL PLANTS IN OTTAWA
 TO CLOSE TO SAVE FUEL
February g, 10 and Reimbursement Places are HeatIess Mondays l

Ottawa, Feb. 4.-An order in council
 was passed by the cabinet tonight, upon recommendation of c. A. Ma grath, Dominion fuel controller, sus- pending the operation of manufactur- ing plants on February g, 10 and Il, as conservation measure. The order
 includes all munitions plants. It does not apply to western Canada or to the maritime provinces.
 The order follows closely along the lines of the American five days clos ing order and grants virtually the same exemptions. s-H 1t also is provided that during the months of February and March all
 golf, yacht, canoe, hunt and country
 clubs must be closed except on We'd nesdays and Saturdays.
 For the present, heatless Mondays
 are ordered only for theatres and
 other places of amusement. They must remain closed every Monday from February IS to March 25.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
Assurance Given of
 Transport Facilities
STATEMENT AUTHORIZED BY
 SECRETARY. DANIELS
SUPPORTS sEc'Y BAKER
Ships Enough to Make Sure That
 There Win Be soo,ooo American
 Troops in France Early This Year.

Washington, Feb. 4.-Secretary Dam iels today authorized the statement that the navy is assured of enough transport facilities to make sure that there will be 500.0o0 American troops in France early this year as was stated by Secretary Baker recently before the senate military committee.
 MT. Daniels made the statement when informed that Secretary Baker forecast of the number of men to be sent abroad had been challenged in the senate today by Senator Hitch cock. He would not say whether the navy departments outlook for ships was such as to warrant the expectA- ticn of having one million more men in France by the end of 1918.
 Secretary Baker himself declined to comment in any way upon Senator Hitchcock's address.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
THEFT OF $4,ooo WORTH OF SILK GOODS FROM CAR
Conductor and Three Brakemen oI
 New Haven Road Arrested.

New Haven. Conn, Feb. 1.-The con- ductor and three brakemen of New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road freight train were arrested here tonight charged with the theft of about $4,0O0 worth of silk goods from a car of their thain.
 The men, Frank H. Sibley, of West Haven, conductor, and Brakemen James Askew, and William Ford of New Haven, and Thomas O'Nein of West Haven. are held under bonds of S2,000 each for trial in the town court of Hamden in which town the theft is alleged to have occurred.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
STEAMER ASHORE OFF NEW ENGLAND COAST
Three Government Vessels Failed in
 Effort to Float Her.

An Atlantic Port, Feb. 4.-Efforts by three government vessels to float an American steamer which ran ashore off the New England coast last night failed today, and tonight the ships position was reported as less favor able. The heavy ice which had forced her ashore worked her bow further in toward land and she took list to starboard. .1
 As she lies now she is exposed to westerly and southwestrly winds with the ice foes forcing her higher up on the shoal. She is So close in shore that her crew today carried on a con- versation with the coast guard by megaphone,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
STEAMSHIP CITY OF
 WILMINGTON ADRiFT
In the Track of Transatlantic Ves- seIs-Boilers Disabled.

An Atlantic Port, Feb. 4.-The mas ter oI an. overseas ship just arrived reports sighting January 25 in slati- tude 54, adrift in, track of trans-A lantic vessels the American steamship City of Wilmington with engines and boilers disabled.
 The master of the disabled steamer asked to be lowed to Bermuda, but the captain of the ship which sighted her, twas unable to take the vessel in tow.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
Oil Allowable as Fuel on Monday.
RuMANIANs DlsARMt THE
 NINTH RUSSIAN DIVISION
The Greater Part Of the Rumanian Army is Now Fighting Russian Troops.

London, Feb. 4-Official telegraph despatches, from Jassys Saturday Say that the greater part of. the Rutnanian army is now engaged in fighting Rus sian troops, who are eyerrunning Mol david. and Messarabia, while Bolshevik troops are concentrating in Bukowir1a.
 After twenty four hours fighting the Ruma nians disarmed the Ninth Rus sian division. which attacked Galtaz. taking over fifty guns, and surrounded and disarned the Eighth Russian di- vision, which attaked the center of the Moldavian front. This division was sent under convoy to Russia
 In response to an appeal from tie Bessarabian republic. it is officially declared, Rumania sent troops there to prevent the devastation of the country by bands of Russians, and also occu : pied Kisliinev, the Ungheni- Jasay railway and depots from which Ru- mania draws supplies.
 Fighting is in progress between the Rumanians and the Bolsheviki all over Bessarabia as far as the Dniester.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
RESOLUTION TO EXTEND
 TIME FOR INSURANCE
Was Being Prepared Yesterday For
 Introduction in Congress.

Washington. Feb. A joint resolu- ton extending the time in which soi- dfers and sailors who entered the ser vice before last October Is may apply for government voluntary life insur- ance for sixty days from February 12 was prepared today for introduction in congress. Owing to the difficuI- ties of insurance solicitation among the scattered forces many of the men have neglected to enter their appli- cations.
 An extensive campaign is under way this week by the soldiers insurance bureau of the treasury department to solicit insurance applications.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
AMERICAN scHooNERs
 IcEBouND AT BAY OF ISLANDS
Fishermen Probably Will Remain There Until April.

Curling, N. F., Feb. .4.-Three Amer lean fishing schooners were frozen in
 the ice today at Bay of Islands just as
 the herring fishery closed They
 probably will remain fast until April,
 when the field usually goes ont. As
 far as the eye can see the Gulf of St. Lawrence is full of ice
 The herring catch this year amount ed to 100, GOO barrels. --.ss,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
ENEMY BOMBED TOWNS
 ON VENETIAN PLAIN.
In Padua, Treviso and Mestre Num- ber of Civilians Were Killed.

Rome, Feb. 4.-venice and a num- Der of towns on the Venetian plain have been bombed by enemy airmen, according to the Italian official com munication issued today. While no damage and no casualties resulted from the attack on Venice, consider able destruction was wrought in the towns of Padua, Treviso and Mestre, where also a number of civilians were killed or wounded. ~aa.' 7.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
STREET CAR SERVICE IN
 ST. LOUIS AT sTANDsTILL
Riot Calls Kept the Police Busy Dis.
 persins Mebs.

St. Louis. Mo-. Feb. 4.-Street car service in St. Louis was completely halted tonight after a day marked by increasing violence by sympathizers of the striking motormen and conduc- tors who are demanding increased wages, revision of working hours and discontinuance of alleged unfair dis crimination in, favor of women con- ductors.
 Riot calls kept the police busy. the disturbers in most cases contenting themselves with the damaging of cars which the company attempted to op- crate.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
POLITICAL SITUATION IN
 CENTRAL EMPIRES TENSE
But the Strikers Have Been Suppressed by the Hard
 Hand of the Military
MARTIAL LAW IN BERLIN PROVED EFFECTIVE

With Threats of Summary Courtmaral and Execution Con- fronting Them the Strikers Have Ceased to Carry Out Disorders in Berin-The German and AusroH Hungar- ian Foreign Ministers and General Won Ludendorf Are to Gather in Close Conference to Lay Plans to Silence the Cries for Peace Now Resoundng Throughout the Central Empnes-The Germans Were Worsted in Their Attack on the American Sector in Lorraine Sat mday, as the Americans Tore Up the German Front Line Trenches, Blew Up Several of Their Dugout and Cut Their Barbed Wire Entanglements
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
 FOR HDRYS" IN AVER
There Had Been Military, Religious and Civic Campaign For Prohibition.

Aver, Mass, Feb. 4-By an over whe!ming majority the citizens of this town where the 18th Division of the national army is located. voted against the sale of Intoxicating liquors today. The vote was 37S no; 63 yes.
 Military authorities and religious and civic organizations had conducted a vigorous campaign against license. Brigadied General Wiegel, acting com- mander. at Camp Devens, in recent letter, to the chairman of the board of selectmen, stated that no soldiers would be permitted to enter the town if it voted wet /. 1.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
THEATRE STANDING. ROOM
 LAW IS DEFECTIVE
Contains No Penalty For overcrowd-
 ing of Space.

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 1.-The law passed by the general assembly last year, by which theatre proprietors are required to state the standing room capacity of their theatefs, is defective, in the opinion of Attorney General Hinman, in that it contains nothing to prevent overcrowding of that space and no penalty for violation. The opinion was given today by the attor- ney general to Superintendent of State Police Egan, who asked for an inter pretation of the law. after the prose cutting attorney here had declined to take action against a theatre pro- prietor, on the ground that the law was defective. E
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
ICE GORGE BREAKS UP
 IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER
At Riehardson's Landing, Tenn.-A
 Mile in Length.

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 4.-Latest ad- vices received here tonight state only about a. mile of the gorge at Rich ardson's Landing, Tenn, in the Mississippi river. fifty mifes above the city, had broken from the main body of the ice pack. Steamboat men esti- mate it will take from six to, eight hours for the foes to pass the local harbor.
 The big jam extending, it is said, from Butler, Arkansas, to Ashport Tenn, distance of approximately 40 miles, still is intact. -,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
MULTITUDE PASSED BIER
 OF JOHN L. SULLIVAN
An Almost Unbroken Line of Men,
 Women and Children.

Boston, Feb. 4.-An almost unbroken Inc of men. women and children to- lay and tonight passed by the bier h John l.. Sullivan, the last of the nd guard of heavyweight pugilists. In hl dress. the body of the dead cham ton lay in the darkened parior al he home of his sister. Mrs. Annie E. lennon. in the Roxbury district, while elatfves. friends and admirers of the I'd gladiator called to gaze for the Ast ttns on his features.
 MeauNhd1e finai arrangements Swere nade for the funeral which will be cid norn St Pznl's church, Roxbury Fednesday morning
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-05
NEW HAVEN ROAD TO ISSUE
 - NO MORE "BLuE" BOOKS
Because State Lines Have Been Eiim- = mated by liberalization.

New Haven, Conn. Feb. 4.-An an- nouncement by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company today was to the effect that no more "blue" books will be issued for rail- road transportation This is becanse state lines have been eliminated under liberalization of the railroads and the company cannot hereafter issue transportation except as provided by act of congress and under the rules of the interstate commerce commission.