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Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
JULES VEDRlNES, A NOTED
FRENCH AVIATOR, KILLED

Paris. April 21.-(By The A. P.)
Jules Nedrines, d noted French avia-
tor, was killed today when his ma
chine fell in the department of Drome
while Nedrines was attempting to
make a non stop flight from Villacou-
blay to Rome. The mechanician in the
machine also was killed.
The machine in which they We're
making the "trip was wrecked.
The accident occurred about 1880
o'clock this morning at Les FOUL
louseS. and ii is believed it was due
to the machine colaDsing in the air.
The aviators fell from great height
and the death of both of them was i'll
stantaneous. The mail sack which We
drines was carrying 10 Rome was
found among the debris Of the ma
| chine.
| Jules Nedrines, whose death is re-
ported in the fall of his airplane was
one of the leading French airmen. He
was one OF the first Frenchmen TO
tack uD aviation. During the years
/ 1911 and 912 was erry actiev in the
| aerial races in Europe, winning the
/ Paris Madrid race, finishing fourth in
! the European circuit race. and MAX
/ ing various records for height. dis
| tancc and speed. and finishing second
! in the British circuit race. He was
one of the first aviators TO fly from
London to Paris, doing this on August
4, 1911 On April 20. 1872. almost
seven years ago, Vedrines was injured
| seriously by the fail of his machine
at st. Denis. He recovered from his
| injuries and in August of that year ne
came to America and won the Inter-
! national Aviation Race at Chicago on
Sept. 9.
Nedrines served in the French aeria
service early in the war and was Ia
| ter made an Instructor. On January
! this year he accomplished the feat OF
/ landing on u roof of u building witt
an airplane,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
SECRETARY DANIELS AND
PARTY ARRIVE AT COLOGNE

Cologne, April q CBy the A. P.l.--
Secretary of the Navy Daniels and his
party arrived here today by boat from
Cohlcnz hridgehead. where the secre-
tary had been the guest of Major Cen
eral Lajeune, commander of the Amer
lean Second division. After spending
several hours in Cologne, the party
proceeded by automobile to Liegc
where it was planned TO spend the
night. Tuesday morning the secretary
will go to Louvaino and then will
spend (. "a, in Brussels before going
on to England.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
500 SOLDIERS ANs'%FRED
GREETING FOR fMIKEn

New York, April 21.-Eighty-fiv five per
cent. of the 165th infantry, which ar
rived home on the transport Harris
burg today, was Irish when 1t went to
war. 1t was known as Few York's
Fighting Sixty ninth" in it's National
guard days ana every other man was
Uc-in.s' c Pat or Mike" saws
Colonel "ss i'd Bilr' Donovan, it's COM
mander, But a little Irish girl on the
Hobcken pier this morning put his
statistics to shame when she shrieked
welcome to a soldier boy who hung
over the Harrisburg'S rail
Hello, Mike.'' she cried
Three hundred voices answered her.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
FOUR CONN. COMMUNITIES
HAVE ATTAINED QUOTAS

Hartford, April 21.-Ffve Connecti-
cut communities were officially report
ed tonight as having attained their
quotas in the Victory Liberty loan on
the first day. They are Derby, Middle
town, Cranky, Unionville, East Had
dam and Moodus. 1t was announced
by the state Liberty loan committee
that Vice Admiral Sims would speak
on the loan at Hartford on May and
at New Haven the day following.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURED
23 ROLSHEVlKI IN RAID

London. April eight
Bolsheviki, including one officer, were
captured by allied troops in the raid at
Seletskoe, on the Kadish front south
east of Archangel on April IS. an Off
cial statement from the British war
office today said, Many, of the enemy
were killed and several sleds loaded
with wounded were seen moving away
from the scene of the fight
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
DETROIT CLAIMS HONOR
OF FRET LARGE CITY

Detroit, Mich, April 21.-Dctroii
-aised her Victory banner over the city
hall tonight. claiming the honor of be-
lng the first large city in the country
10 oversubscribe it's quota in the Vic
lory Liberty loan. The city has not
finished the Job" yet. for the drive
continues and loan workers predict
Inc total subscription will near the
100, 100000 mark. Todays subscrip-
ions exceeded s60,oeo,009 The citys
1uota is s55,4H,413.
Among the larger purchasers sp-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
ANOTHER s5oo,ooo,0 ,0ao BLOCK Of
TREASURY CEHrt~icATEsl

- 3Sl14Ls. 49,, .fsl,.
sE0L00U,0OJ block l. treasur certlfi-1
Gates Of Indebtedness dated May j.
and maturing October Z, with the
usual interest rate of 1-2 per cent.
was announced today by the treas-
ury.
This is the tenth biweekly iss,ie
floated in connection with the Vie--ss
tory Liberty Loan. 49,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
RUSSIAN SOVIET TROOPS
NOW OCcUPYlNG SEBASTOP

Paris, April 21.-(Havas). The ma
val port of Sebastopol. in the Crimea,
has not been occupied by Russian So
Wet troops, according to a despatch to
the Journal Des Debas dated Sunday
at Salonilli.
The despatch says that fighting ap
pears to have stopped for the time be-
ing in the southern Crimea. The
BolsheviI1i are said to be slackening
their advance in the face Of the allied
artillery fire.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
GERMAN TROOPS ATTACKED
A RED CROSS MISSION

New York, April 21.-German
troops have attacked the American
Red Cross mission at kovno, Lith-
uania, according to a cablegram re-
ceived here today by the Lithuanian
National Council from its Paris rep
resenta tive. The message gave neith--
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
VICTORY LIBERTY NOTES
FIND A RECEPTIVE MARKET

Subscriptions Are Pouring Into Banks and Soliciting Com
mittees-Many Communities Subscribed Their Full
Quotas the First Day-Detaed Reports to the Treasury
Will Not be Made Until Late in the Week-Tota Unof-
hcially Reported for New England Was Nearly $780,
100000 for the Opening Day-Deroit Claims Honor
of First Large City Its Allotment
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
Rev. Arthur n. Withee,

Hazardville, Conn, April 21.-Rev.
Arthur IL. Withee. who took up his
duties at the Methodist church here a
week ago following assignment by the
New England Southern Conference,
died of heart trouble in the parson-
age today. Mr. Withee was born III
Bangor, Me-, Al years ago. joined the
New England Southern Conference in
1910 and had served in Eastford, Old
Mystic. Moosup, Mystic and Noank
His widow and one daughter survive,
(Af n AF. M b. nr
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22

newspaper correspondents. They met
the emergency by electing a council
from their own ranks and pooling their
available cash reserves. The council
supervised the distribution of the cash
in hand for the purchase of food.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
OBITUARY..
.Inhn EarIe>I

Hartford, Conn. April 2l.-John
Farley, who claimed to be 103 years
old, died today at the city hospital. He
had been at the hospital fifteen years
and so far as known. leaves no rela-
tives. He had been in this city since
1877, and had worked at different &C.
Cupations. He was born in Ireland,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
I GERMANY ACCEPTS CONDITIONS
CT VERSAILLES CONFERENCE

Paris April q (By the A. PD.--
Germany has notified the allies that
she accepts all the allied conditions re-
specting the Versailles conference.
This official announcement was made
] Tonight.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
Cabled Paragraphs

Paris, April 21.-President Wilson
attended the theatre tonight for the
first time in some time. He occupied
a box. Hello, Paris!" was the attrac-
ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22
A Russian wireless message receiv

A Russian wireless message receiv-
ed in London Sunday night said that
Sebastopol had been evacuated by the
Crimean government. The govern
ment of Sebastopol was said to be in
the hands Of a revolutionary commit
tee. The Russian message further
added that after negotiations with the
allide command an agreement had
been reached for an armistice of eight
days TO expire on April %.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-22

nounced were the Peoples State bank.
which took S20.000,000. and Henry Ford
and the Ford interests, 10,000,000.
The sun., 1919-04-12

the oficiai enemies Of the United
States, found themselves assigned,
amid the rigors of the Arctic, to q
vague defensive campaign against the
foe which the Administrator at home
has not recognized as foe? The Boil
shevlki In Russia were and are shoot
ing American soldiers while the Rus
sian Bolsheviki in America mount the
soap boxes and preach their vile
creed without being arrested.
At the end of these chapters of on
cial neglect comes the story Of the
mutiny Of American soldiers, of their
demand for some definite statement
froA Washington concerning their
future. 1t is not surprising to read
In the dispatches from Archangel
that there Is no disposition in official
circles seriously to blame the troops.
IT was not a mutiny against disci.
pline or against Americanism. 1t was
the turning Of the worm against the
cruel imbecillty of the officials who
80 far as these soldiers could see, had
abandoned them to a miserable fhte.
The sun., 1919-04-12
A RAINBOW OF TRIUMPH.
Moro Appropriate Than an Arch fol
tho Forty second Division.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-str. It
appears probable now that the Forty
second. or Rainbow. Division will not
parade in New York as It was intended
and it looks like q poor welcome home
to be given to tho 16Sth Infantry.
II they let the Twenty-seventh and
the Seventy-seventh divisions have pa
rades why should not tho Forty-second
have ono also. 20 that the people of the
city can give tho Rainbow Division men
the credit that 10 coming to them?
They have built a Victory Arch for
the Twenty-seventh and are now build
ing q statue OF Liberty for the Seventy.
seventh. What are they going to build
for the Forty-second. and especially for
the 1s6th Infantry? What would sug-
gest Is a rainbow. the emblem Of the
division. and ! think Q lot of people
would agree with me.
Secretary Glass was trying TO have
tho FNorty-second Division parade for tn,
coming Liberty loan: but It looks as
II that was all of. I think It would
help tho loan a lot II this division pa
rnded, for II suffered more casualties
than either thr - yenty-seventh OF le
Seventy and did wonderful work
over there. JOHN REDMOND.
NEW YORK, April IL.
The sun., 1919-04-12

That THOMAS JEFFERSON attributed
the signing OF the Declaration Of In
dependence to the influence OF flies
rather than to the impelling worth and
greatness OF the document excites in
terest of the first magnitude when the
l76th anniversary of his birth to-mor-
row falls In year when matters of
signatures and documents are so rife
The anecdote is credited to President
JEFFERSON himself in Hdrpers for
October. 1871:
when the question OF independence
was before the Congress II had It's meet
ir gs near a livery stable. The members
wore short breeches and silk stockings
and. with handkerchiefs in hand. Were
very diligently employed in flashing the
flies from their legs. So very vexstiou,
was this annoyance and to so great ar
impatience did II arouse the sufferers
that It FASTENED, II 1t did not aid, in In,
ducing them to promptly affix their sig
natures TO a great document which gave
birth to an empire republic"
What is the particular insect annoy
ance Of Paris in the springtime?
The sun., 1919-04-12

Our friend the Scientific American
not only wonders who will write the
history of the war, but Is anxious that
the foundation Of that great Job be
laid at once. 1t suggests that, with
view to having the military facts
presented to the world In history Of
such high authority as shall silence all
Doubt" the Peace Conference give the
assignment to the General Staff of the
Entente nations to collaborate on q
history. For editor Of the work the
Scientific American quite naturally
suggests Professor FocH. When It
uses the phrase Entente nations" we
assume that our contemporary In
cludes the United States. That terse
historian of the American operations
In France-so terse that some indi-
viduals Of the army mourned the nom
appearance Of their names-General
PERsHING, certainly should write II
great chapter.
AS for the other side OF the war
| the Scientific American believes that
the German and Austrian General
STATS should he asked to contribute
| the history of the operations as they
saw them. Thai is fair and would be
interesting too. The various opinions
of the most prominent German Gen
erals at the battle of the Marne on
the reasons for that first and telling
German defeat would be worth COM
pairing. We assume that they would
not quite agree with one another. IT
Is a commentary on the difficulty OF
writing the great wars history that
even now, four and half years after
the Marne the world does not know
the numerical proportions Of the con-
flicting forces.
In work compiled by the General
STATS of both sides the Scientific
American believes that we should have
ian ideal war history-a source book
upon which individual national his
torians could base any works they
might feel disposed to write.
Let us have the one great, official
unbia ssed story told by a composite
group of the allied staff officers" The
idea Is good. If the Peace Conference
finally reaches point where it Is eyi
dent that the General STAFF will not
have to resume Its regular business
of war, let Marshal FoCH and his men
begin upon the great literary adyen
The sun., 1919-04-12
HURLEY APPOINTS
PIEZ'S SUCCESSOR
w. L. Ackerson VIII Haze
Charge of Ship Construction.

VAsHISdToN, April II. - Chairman
Hurley to-day made the first announce
ment of changes In the Shipping Board a
STAFF IN preparation for continuing sue
cessfully the tremendous merchant ma
rlne programme started during the war.
Telegraphing from Florida, where he
has been taking a brief rest. Mr.. Hurley
appointed Naval Constructor U. L. Ack-
crson to succeed Director G eneral
Charles Piez of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation. lie will have full charge
OF ship construction.
Mr.. Ackerson already was vice-pres-
ident OF the corporation, with which he
has been connected for many months
Mr.. Piez presented his resignation sew
eral months ago, expressing a desire TO
return to his private business.
Another vice-presdent will he named
soon to succeed Howard Coonley. who
also has resigned. in charge Of admin
istration, finance and contracts
Mr.. Hurley Is making plans to sys.
tematize the work OF the new and weaker
yards established during the war lie
will return TO Washington Sunday tc
spend week before going TO Philadel-
phia, headquarters of the Fleet Corpora.
ton. During the summer the chairman
will spend most OF his time In Philadel-
phia, comforting with shipbulders and
working out improvements In cost de,
terminIng methods. 1t was said that
lack of modern methods has handicapped
new yards In submitting bids under the
revised programme OF construction.
Mr.. Hurley had extensive experience
In cost accounting as chairman OF tho
Federal Trade Commission, and II is be
| lieved his aid will enable new yards &c
compete with foreign yards for peace
time business.
Ackerson, Is a practical shipbuilder HI
was born In Michigan in 1881 and grad
uated from the Naval Academy in 1901
The sun., 1919-04-12
TRADE BRIEFS.

A concession has been granted 90 An
tonic Amorin do Amarai for tho building
OF a railroad from AmapA to oyapock
both in the State OF Para. Brazil, the lat
ter town being located on tho boundaries
of the French Gulanas and called San
Antonio.
In the hrst eight months OF 1918 Japan
imported t1so,092 worth OF rivets, chiefly
for uso In shipbuild!ng.
The 1918 crop OF olives in Seville. Spain
is only about 40 per cent. OF that gathered
In 1917. Not only Is the crop short, but
the quality OF the fruit is poor. the olives
being very wormy.
Buenos Ayres. Argentina. furnishes n
market for about 400 metric tons OF cal
cium carbide a month. which Is approx
rhately 80 per cent. OF the entire impor-
tation OF this product into Argentina.
Reports from Quebec, Canada, show tina,
new chocolate and candy factory has
been added to tho industries OF that city.
1t Is anticipated by the management that
$50 varieties OF chocolates, when the prof.
ect is fully developed. will be produced.
The motion picture market is now very
well developed In Greece. most OF the hlm'
shown coming at present from Italian aad
French producing companies. Highly me-
dramatic plo;s ar. popular.
The sun., 1919-04-12
Another Aspect OF . snub to the
6eventy-seventh.

The issue involved In the refusal Of
the military authorities in Washing-
ton to arrange for a parade here Of
the Seventy-seventh Division as an
organization on its return from France
Is not as simple as the bureaucratic
mind conceives It.
Leaving out Of account entirely the
natural desire Of the people Of New
York city to see, and to show honor
to, an organization peculiarly their
own, the subject is worth considering
In It's relation to national sentiment
In the future.
The War Department found 1t pos.
sible to arrange a parade for the
Twenty-seventh, a unit which, despite
requirements Of drafted men, retained
to the day Of its dismissal from the
service the character Of Q volunteer
organization.
The Seventy-seventh is made up en-.
tirely Of drafted men.
If to these men Is denied the oppor.
tunity to march in triumph through
their own city they and their families
and friends will inevitably feel that
the selective service army has been
mubbed where the volunteers have
been highly complimented.
They will say that despite uniform
designations and uniform insignia the
military authorities made a distinc-
ton between volunteers and drafted
men, to the humiliation Of the latter.
They will say that while drafted
men were considered good enough to
fight, and good enough to fill the de-
pleted ranks Of war worn Regular and
National Guard divisions, they were
ignored and pushed to one side when
the plaudits Of grateful country were
to be distributed.
What the effect Of this viii be II
another draft is necessary Is not difh
cult to foresee.
Instead Of the cheerful acquiescence
which marked the country's accept
ance of the draft in the present war
there will be a feeling Of resentment
Drafted men will be sullen and un
willing. They will accept their duty
without enthusiasm, and the unit,
formed from them will lack the splen
did morale which SO notably assisted
in the training Of our levies in 1917
and 1918.
1t is hardly to be expected that bu
reaucrats will give attention to suci
considerations as these. But there
ought to be In the Administration
somewhere, in America or in Europe
at least one individual gifted with
sufficient political sense 70 recognize
these facts and clothed with enough
authority to avert the blunder the
War Department Is obstinately nov
bent on making.
The sun., 1919-04-12

ture. Between them and the statisti-
Clans there should be material for a
Get of volumes that would crowd a
Ave hundred foot shelf; a dollar down
and q dollar a week for eons.
But would this be final, conclusive
work? Looking back at the expert
ence of the civil war historians, we
have doubts. Only two years ago
JAMES FORD RHODES, issuing his sim
gle volume History Of the Civil War
announced that this was not an
abridgment Of his three volume work
on the same subject, but fresh study.
Although his three volume history was
not Issued until 1895 and later-thirty
years after Appomattox--he found
that In the two decades preceding
1917 much new matter had come to
light. The official records of the
Union and Confederate navles, the
diary Of GIDEON WELLEs, General VII
sors life Of RAwLrNs," JOHN HAYS
letters and diaries, SEIZURES remi.
niscences were some Of the
fresh sources, not available until a
generation after the civil war, which
made the historian wish to 60 again
over his subject.
II that was the experience Of a
historian who dealt with war al
much less complicated than the Euro
pean war as a musket Ia less complex
than machine gun, what will be the
situation Of the historian Of, say
194S7 Secret memoirs of HINpEN.
BURG, LUDEyDoRFF, MoLTKE, the Grand
Duke NICHOLAS; diaries made pub.
lie by the heirs Of CLEArEyCEAU and
JoyIRE; hitherto undiscovered docu.
ments" hidden BY Bolsheviki in ST.
berian cellars; "own stories by Pc
TAIN and FRENcH-the food Of contri
button will 80 on for a century.
1t IL true, as the Scientific American
says, that now Is the time to set down
the facts and theories of living mer
before files are mislaid and notebooks
lost. There Is a mountain of technical
matter that can be put in pint. Nc
one will guarantee that this will be
read as a history. Writer'S of con
densed histories will use them fol
reference, just as our own Govern
ment publications and PUTNAM's
Records Of the Rebellion" are used
by writer's on the civil war. There
will be ninety-and-nine "best histo
ries" Of the great war and seven gen
erations win be asked to sign on the
dotted line for "the only good one"
The sun., 1919-04-12
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Lecture for children. by Carl =. Ak.l.r.
Lse!are on xrransems Say Of f' MseSin. ~
mob D, sa,sy i1;'ltats Ss xmsTIS. II n
gene IL Leh9an G' How to D,f B. HEALTHY IS
,a nSas4 Tea S%sin COLLEGE Dr. ,: 5; will
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce., speak
ers Baron Roman Rosen on THE Russian
and the East" Hamilton Holt "a on !:Ths
League OF Nations or Boishsvism." lunch
William i. TAFT Will speak on .Ts.
Essex streets. s:ls p M,
dr. s sswsEs r. !. VA Win ,;ets.s on
York Academy Of Medicine, $40 p. NJ. ~"
crs .ste c;SS day day.. dinner stiGa Demo-
Lecture BY lie Roy j.ner. on "seenio
Features OF North American Mountains"
c 1r annsr "a sn: star
cratic Club and Democratic County Com
mittes q the, F,fth A..sm6iy District.
dots Ro S ssatord i psss = X.
psSa Albert Sn 'fs a. q sns s
B11ne.' Jr. University Club of Brooklyn.
j a'i sde,sy :ssss4 T. s ss.
NJ Seventh Masonic District dinner.
Lecture by Jane B. Walker on william
NJ. Chase" (for the deaf. Metropolitan
MGseum Of Art. P. n.
Dinner TO Meyer d. Rothehild by the
Ritx-Carlton Hotel. 7:30 p. NJ.
The Williams College Musical Club will
eve is annual New York concert At
ao Wo%sn. FFs; : Cub meeting WAL
Military order Of Foreign Wars, meet
| ing, waldorf-As;oris, p. N.
Society OF Independent Artists. exhibit
| ton. Waldorf Astoria, 10 A. n. to 10 p: NJ
Kentucky University Alumni Club. din
| ner. Hotel McAlpin. 7 p. NJ
Meeting to discuss matters bearing on
| reduction in the cost OF living. ~ UNI
versity place. 4:so i. NJ.
! Brooklyn instiiute-Dr. William Starr
Myers viii repeat In the Opera House at
view. The members OF the institute Chess
Club will meet for the purpose of play
| at and p. ". in the Art Room
| of the academy. Walter Hampton Will
make his last brooklyn appearance Of the
season in Hamlet" In the Opera House.
| S p NJ The work OF the week will be
concluded in the Science Room at sos
| by Frank L. bryant, with lecture con-
| ference on Thine and Its Distribution"
The sun., 1919-04-12
DENIES FRENCH FRIGHTENING
Gen. Dawes Says American Army
Was Not Overcharged.

Gen. Charles @. Dawes. u. S. A. has
given Il statement to the Stars and
STRIPES, the organ of the a. f. r. in
France, according TO advices received
here yesterday. in which he contradicts
all rumors to the effect that the French
authorities had presented an exag-
gerated bill OF costs 10 the United States
Government for railroad transportation
and material supplied 10 the American
forces.
The statement says that during the
fi-st seven months OF Americas partici-
patton In the war the French supplied
practically all the material required by
the American forces and that the French
Government took every necessary step
to prevent overcharging, even requisi-
tioning at low prices in some cases. Re-
ports that Americans had To buy their
cemeteries and pay for trenches and
villages destroyed by American artil-
iery are characterized by Gen. Dawes
as absurd