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F———. — -- ‘ SDAY AUGUST 21 1917 Partly Cloudy and Cooler Tonight TWO CENTS.
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am PERSONS RATED A8 Tannin ‘scotitti Is'
ENGANE STRIKES AIITGNGRIIE
0N SATRRGGN GRADE GRGSSING
{I‘rain Crushes Into a Car, Causing the Death of Two
5 Men, Two Women and Three Children Instantly,
l While Another Elderly Woman Died Later in the
if) Hospital
I’ARTT NAII BEEN TI] NIANTIG TG VISIT
A iSTItNIEN SGN GETNE GWNER GT THE GAR
1A Girl of’lNine Years, Who Was Thrown Clear of the .
t. Wreckage, Is the Only Survivor and is in New Lon- i
It. don Hospital A
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1 OLD SAYNIROOK, ("onii.. Aug.
“.4 freight otltgtne running light over‘ _
‘lllle Shore Line division of the Net. of 5.20 Quinnipiac avenue,
"Il‘ork. New llaven and Hartford t-ail- ““54 1.01'IS AST()M:\O' and hill.‘
:i'oad, crashed into an automobile o\\‘n-, three children. ast’tl Tullt‘ months, 0
ed and driven by Rubpyt n. Ilt‘shloi‘t‘f and 5 years. of 520 Quinnipiac avenue,
at the ferry messing. cast of the junt-t M “it‘ll. \VAtSNl-Zit. oi Ltttt {\ortuE
lion shortly before last midnight. and? ”Om 51'1““ all Of New Haven. i
right persons 1031 their “(-05- The“ 'I‘he party htid been to Ntaiittt' for.
2].“ ‘ throp avenue, New Haven. ' y
tli‘S'l‘AVE WEYEL and his \\'th‘,1
PINNGES GET
ENRANNNENI
Almost Miraculous Escape
From Instant Death This
Afternoon
GAR WENT GET
GGRTIANIIT ST. RANN MGRliAN IS IN _
_ AMBULANGEGRRPS
Taken to Hospital iDirector of His Section
.\lrs. Marion lioey, of 887 Park avcg wants Him ExemPted-
one, New York, together with her son, ‘Those Examined Yester-
:=idne_\. J12. aged 13. and her dauglr'
tcr. Miss Muriel, aged 15, had a mir- day
aculous escape from death or possible ‘
serious injury this afternoon at about
town it
to ma DRAfl
Gives His Excuse For Not
Registering and Shows
That He Did Not Really
Intend to be a Slacker, But
Was Forgetful
Below are given the dispositions of
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g l::‘.o u'olock “i. .1 their 13”.. mm, ,' the cases of the next examined )‘eS-‘ 1 “mm“
fottr-iuisscnrer automobile driven byilt‘l'du." A)! lllt‘ IOWA b03130 including
Mrs. itoor. ten the road on the (‘0ll-; those who are maimed its aliens.
necticut tuinpike and plunged over at those Who did not appear and thoso
topolvol'ooi wall into the yard of Who file exemption claims and the
t‘harlcs N. Downs. on (‘ottrtlanti place.” I‘t‘ttmlts therefore.
Mrs. iloey was bound east alum:
It‘rank Douglas Scofleld. who was.
EIRST MOVEMENT
IN GGNTRGIIING
GGAI INDUSTRY
Judge Lovett Named ‘Direc-A
tor of Priority of Trans-3
Northwest Preference in
portation and He Gives!
Shipments '
NAT REGUISITIGN
Alt MINE GUTPUT?
President Wilson Is to Name!
: a Coal , Administrator
I Soon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2i.»—~Govern-;
nicnt control of the coal intiustiy'
moved a step nearer yesterday whtu‘
Wilson formally lianictl‘
'ltobert S. Lovett. of the war indu.s~
.ti'ies hoard .director of priority of
lti‘anspoitation and approved an order
issued by Judge Lovett directing.r that‘
i tail and steamship lines itive ljilllllllll-A
ous coal shipments to the Northwest,
atlrvjvpr ,3 Muir-(i \\\ \\~...-..1 “2,..1‘1110 t-vettin‘: to st-t- \\ilham \\i‘.\tl.-jthe turnpike and as she came down tucked lttt trrtettiay as a slacker, atwl'wrp'S’mp "‘91 "n "‘1’” ““3""
nine. who is suffering from Slltlt'k,‘ son of (lustave \i‘eyel,‘ who is a menr.
{but will recover, and is helm: t‘nrm] her of the lll‘ltl hospital. they had
for at the .‘Nt‘lllullttl hospital in New tiriived at the camp around about
London. flilltl~t‘\'t'lll:l;;. and had left on the reg
‘turn about 10AM, crossing the (ion-[
Th“ ltel'fittns who were killed were." A '
ROBERT Ill. nonmi-‘r, t.:‘ 12') Win;
in Air BURNER to. it. than
. unit it AIRPLANE nonunion
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Experimenting With Smoke
the armory hill :he inade an attempt tel“ It‘lltntz hi." story to the board, was
to turn to one side of the road in . allowed to resistor, and his name was
.otder to avoid hitting John ltoello, of reported to 'liartford front wherc'it
v inovements.‘
} Within th-.~ text day or so tlttll
l’l‘t‘.\lti('lll 3s l-‘Ilttt'ltfll to appoint a
has" thiS . STA-ND HAM
NWWWWW
ATTAGNS 0E GREAT VIGIENGE
causation
ammo
PAY EAR wu
Senator LaFollette Begins
Fight For Higher Rates,
Claiming Rich Should {
Bear the Burdens of Taxa-
tion
YEAR’S wu EXPENSE
antiquarian?
Sold to the Poor or Those
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Germans Said to Have Met
With Heavy Losses and
Number of Prisoners Tak-
en by the French Is Over
5,000
THIRD ATTEMPT .
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Determined Attack of Ger-
A mans in Which Flame
Throwers Were Employed
A The German reaction to the suc—
lcexst'ul French stroke at Verdun
came last night. and the new
French lines stood firm iii the face
.ot' counter attacks of extreme vio-
lence. tin the front north of Ver-
ltlllll. especially at Avocourt \vood
land north of t‘oui'iert-s, the fight—
fing was particularly hitter. the
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‘Latc Liberty Loan BOIldS‘lfi'eneh Wartitiice reports. The
met with
of
itit’l‘tllillh. beaten hack.
heavy losses. The number
Bombs Tliat Catch Fire tion Workers Fail to,
in Air . Leave Employment Ill,
.._ Four States
[Hildlt'ALflL N. Y., Ann: C]. t‘harles :
A. Wall, jt‘... and Richard II. .‘ieado SPOKANE. Wash. Aug. 21.~Atl.i
more burned to death here late yes.‘vices today from various parts 01“
“may wl‘am an airplane in whip“. Washington, Oregon. ldaho and Mon-~
they were experimenting with smoke
thumbs caught fire in the air. lloth.
men were dead when the tlestroyedi
airplane. fell to tho gronntii. Wall
hoax a civil engineer in trainin: for
collation service. Meade was avia-
uina failed to record an instance
where industrial Workers of the
World obeyed the order issued by
James Rowan, district secretary. for:
the agricultural and construction
workers to go on strike yesterday as:
ltion instructor who cum-i to Buffalo 41 NMESI against detention in film“
ueccntly from the training camp at;0t’ many members or the organization.
IMineola. L. 1, ,A report last night that members of“
Wall and Meade 1.3.1 gone to alike orgnization at St. John, Wash-l
height of about 700 feet to make tests‘ ington. had walked out. demanding!
the new bomb, which had been the. release of one of their number;
adored/to the United States govern, “PM in All“. was denied tullttll it.
‘ “as said that about fifty I. \V. \\'.:
members from outside of the districtl
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nwn‘ttuuttiihs . '—
; - STRANGE MARINES ,
' ‘“AW“Nflfl'fltuuuuiumuur
Four Killed and Two Injur-t __
ed—Inquiry Begun i wasrponr, August 21.—George
. Gray, home unknown, died in the jail
itilNCiNNATl 0. Aug. 21.:fiiree here at 9 o'clock yesterday morning
ioxblosions along what is called the after having been picked up in an
“Powder Line," a series of Smamunconscmus condition on the Boston
buildings. each a few. hundred yardsi Post road early yesterday morning.
tt‘rom the. other at. the Kings 'Mills‘ Gray had a letter of recommendation
Powder Company’s plant at Kingsi to the B1“: Rtbbon garage thr'dEge'
Mills. 0” took place yesterday. Founportd on “5 person it ten e was
men were killed and two injured. ft, min ' . _ , .
than announced that four tons of; “hen he was found itwas too ear.)
blasting po‘wder had let go in one of} m takt‘ 11““ l0, ,3 hospital. according
lite small buildings and that the tom" ‘9 “‘9 “momma and 50 he was
0f this exitllosion caused the powder: btought to the jail. lifedical_.Exam—
in two other buildings to explode. lti iner Powers later examined hllllOantl
was stated that an investigation wast pronounced him as not being m a
in progress and that if the manage-1“Tum"l cond‘l‘m} At 9 Odom" 1‘0“:
want could not satisfy itself as to the; (“an ‘39 m?“ d‘°d~ _ h i
cause of the explosion it was the. in“ 9 ““5 “oil-dressed ano ad qu te
. ‘. little money in his clothes. Nothing
Ll: ove nment to on-l " , . ._ .
:lklllcttmgntdnvesttigitfon. r .0 ,on him gave any .atormatlon,’asr to
‘llils lgome. There were no marks on
DRAFT, 1) SOLDIERS °""
in. GO TO AYER!
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There seems to be an impression
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RRlMlSTERITlRStl
SHtililURthiRAlll
utilitarian
Clothing Shows Powder
Burns. But Men After
Alleged Dice Playing
Deny Firing
RIVI'ITHTI'IAD, N. Y., August 21r-
{Will be drawn in ”H, drawing that toul adttiinistraior on whom he will
Atrill take place in a few ddys. llis' “‘“Tf‘r authority m. “min-0] Sm” “1""
.story mm that I“, “,3; away on a boat . ducttou and distribution. including
land when he landed hert‘ in July pol Ilt‘ll‘l‘fiimm powers E‘W" to ”I": est»;
; informed 0am... Bryan Silk ,thnt haf cutiv‘e tn the food control hill. At an
i had failed to register and he toid‘hisl hour's COMPANICD today he went “Hr!
j'»e:i.sons. Silk telephoned to Mayor? (Br-tails of h" plans. . . A
lzlltt’fill'tllll. who, it to said. told Sco‘ There was 110 intimation tonight as
held to conn- around. He neglected; ‘0 “hm" ”“i Pm‘l'dflm will hams.“
iio do souand was arrested yestertlttyu l was said he probably Alttld ‘9"
This utorniuL’. a peculiar case came:
lit-tote the local board. tltal of (lor-A (Continued on Page Twelve)
don Morgan. of Iiiuhtvootl, who is in:
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With Limited Means
ft'Xt‘t‘t‘tls 1-).TllITl.
WASHINGTON, Aug, 31,...tj..nm~p.. The Germans also returned to
tion of wealth to pay for the war \vasithe utta'dt on the Aisiie front,
uracil in the senate. today. by St‘niW’EAsli'l'tittu’ m (3.131” “ml llurtehise.
La Follette of \i'..-cousin, in prompt-1P '
lllL‘ tltt‘ minority plans of the tinanm—t. .
committee for higher rates to tilt." warldSM
tax bill on war profits and income»
tie >ll;;.:t'olttl incrr-‘isinu lllu s;m‘n:,—'la~t night made their
tilts .
tin the lil'ilslt front the Germans
third at-
‘ “HOMO” hill it) more than Sflfiodditttigwti it‘llllil 1., himunm-p iltlslilttlls re-
. by such incrt‘ases with cliniinmgon of
:consuinption t/XlS.
cently \vrestetl from them near
lipehy. noithwest of St. Quenthn
A tlett’d'tnltted attack was iiiudé in
declaredwhich the Germans employed
He also urged
that less bonds and more tart-s be
authorized.
The Wisconsin senator
{print-tiers taken by the French now > '
nt'ts reports the repulse (If these }
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135 EXEMPTIIIN
GASESITEGIGEII
:ol’ the men drafted are protesting.
{Large bond i‘ssucs inc:e:i.~es the pres-
' cm high cost of living, which. he as
Frank Autbro Turned on
‘pttisd ctmtplcteiy by the British,
A\\'lltl hold all their positions.
lleavy fighting.r continues on the
isouthern liumaiiian front. The
governments were deniandinar warzflinne throwers lllli they were re-
‘while their peoples were. asking for
peace. and contended that $3 per cent.
METHODIST CHURCH
that the torn drafted to the National,
CHATHAM. Mass. Aug. 2l.—I-‘Ire-
, v-mmrs .
AT CHATHAM BURNS
Anny are to be sent, to Charlotte; which desttoyed the Methodist church
Tim mtnpAat that place out be for; at South Chathnm early today, to bo-
National Guardsmen and the drafted: lleved to have been of Incendiaryl
nun will 0 to Ann Mun. At first.5 ongln. The rear door of the wooden-
pmbabty -n 891‘“. 5th, 30 per cent. atructure was found unlocked and on?
will lesion. 0 per cent. will go fifteen oil can which had been used about?
not». tour and the balance fifteen the church was missing. The loss
If”; f that iLmo. -' . intimated at ".000.
no. . ‘ . , -
shooting of Even?“ Drown. .lr.. twen-
ty years old, of this village. duringl
a raid on an alleged crap game late.
Sunday night, led by the Rev. Paul}
E. Edwards, pastor of the Methodist
Church, and Sheriff Amza W." Riggs?
Brown was shot in the lower part of?
the abdomen. but not wounded seri-I
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iflURtllHER MEN ‘
upturn
Under the provisions of the Rules
hnd his sister Antonette ,aged about
President for the assignment of num-l
hers to men whose registration was‘
consummated after July 10th. 1917.
under the Selective Service Law,
hereby gives notice that numbers will
be. assigned to the men whose names
are stated below, at my office, in the,
State Capitol on Thursday, August!
30 1917. at 12 o‘clock noon, in accord~t
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Walter Arthur Hoffman,
John Drescher, ..
Frank L. Thompson, ’
John E. Johnson,
All of Norwalk.
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, .
Covet-non:
NIltEII'BTtIliNTNINli;
IN THUNDER STGRAIl
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Jones, of’
57 Putnam avenue, who return-3d fromA
Providence, R. 1., this afternoon. had.
a very and experience last- Friday of?
their relatives. Mr. and Mrs. George)
Cbappcll. of Rehoboth.
thunderstorm broke over
RT IIRAET GRANT]
Results of Deliberation
Will Not Be Known, How-’
ever, Until After the Men
Have Been Notified of the
Decisions
The Third District exemption board
sitting at. the county court house has
so far disposed of about 35 cases of;
Industrial claims for exemption filed
or of appeals from local boards. No-
tice of the disposition of these cases
will be mailed to the men affected to-
day.
consider, but the evidence in each
case. is being sifted with great care
and investigation of each case is also
being made.
The time has expired lei-(filing
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:the oven on, but got frightened and
This is but a small number of the-
‘cases which the board will have to.
gSATS TlJR GGST
Burner in Stove, and Con-I
‘siderable Damage Result-3
ed
Injured by an explosion that arous~
ed people for many
last evening at. 8:30. Frank Auturol
and Ills sister Antoniettc, aged about_
5 and 8, are confined to their home;
-nt 27 Wood street. today.
Frank, who is the son of Mrs. Mary!
Autnro, had often” seen his mother go;
to the oven to tight. the gas and he
thought that he would play house for
a while, and so lie_turned the gas ill
neglectted to touch a match to the
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WIND UP AFFAIRS
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.——Dr. A. S.
Bernfeld and Louis I. Cherey. the two
members'of exemption board 99, an
der sentence of two years in the fed
oral-penitentiary following their plans‘
of guilty, to accepting bribes for
granting exemptions to men liable un-
der the selective draft law, will be
allowed a week to wind up their busi-
ness affairs before being taken to the
prison at Atlanta. Meanwhile the men
will be confined in the Tombs. Cherey
will leave a prosperous drug business
while Bernfeld has enjoyed a rather
lorge medical practice. Both men lost
.thelr professional licenses by th’e‘hl
l ternoon while visiting at the home ofi pleas of guilty. .
When the trial of Kalman Gruber
A terrific) was resumed here today In the Uni-
the townt ted States district court it was ex-
Statement of Secretary;
Lawlor, of United Hat-
ters, Topic For Discussion
In a statement made yesterday to a
representative of the New York Am-
erican. Martin Lawlor, secretary-
trcasurer of the United Hatters} as-
cribes the cans-3 of the Danbury Ital;
ting dispute to the high cost of fur.
The statement is the topic of con-
versation in local batting circles to-
day and it started somp highly in-I
teresting discussions. I
The New York paper says the fol-
lowing about the. dispute: “Increase
in the price of fur is the main cause
of the Danbury hatters' lockout, no;
cording to Martin Lawlor. general]
.se‘cxétary of the United Hatters of f
North America. Secretary Lawlorl
explained that the manufacturers hadt
bought furlatit year at low cost. The
sorted. already imposes a fifty to onef Russians and Romanians are offer.
hundred per cent. war burden upon
the masses. The Liberty Loan. he
said. was made possible by an iron
hand within a kid glove,“ and persist-
ent. advertising methods. .
The pending bill. Mr. LaF‘oltettc
cent. of this year's war expenses.
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flANRTJRl tut
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it] HEATH
DANBURY. Aug. 21.—Abtlellah
Khougen. employed as a fur worker in
the factory of the American Hatters
and Furriers‘ corporation, was stab-
bed to death this morning while at
work in the factory. by John Chingos,
a fellow einploye. The men, it is said
quarrclled over a division of skins on
whichI they were to work. Chingos
says 'that Kliougen struck him and
that fearing he might be. further in-
jured. left the factory and went. to
his room in a hour-3 just across the
street. There be. secured. a knife he
had formerly used when employed in
a meat packing house in Omaha, Neb.
and returned to the room where
Kliougen was at work. plunged the
weapon into his throat. Khougen
died almoa tinstantly.
Citingos was arrested within fif-
teenminutea by the police. He was
hiding under a bed in a nearby house.
Fellow cruntrymen of the dead man
were much aroused over the killing.'
and but for the police would haye
seized Chingos. Three other men,
Thomas Papajchn. Khrist Trokay and
Frtandopholus Constantine, are being
held by: the police as material wit-
nesses. Coroner Phelan is to com
value of fur increased amazingly. lie;- mence "1 “"1“er ““0 the murder "‘15
afternoon.
1 Mn. “word .1.- Ftabazr . 8
at. . ,, 3.1.9: your,
during which ltoy. the oldest son, was' pooled the case .would be completed
struck by lightning and instantly kill-. and In the bands of the jury by noon.
ed. The father was severely burnedi Gruher, who was Indicted with Bern-
on his legs and the mother was also. felt! and Cherey. declined to enter a
shocked. and otherwise injured. The plea ,of guilty and elected to stand
stricken fannly are also cousin: of trial; Hots accused of being the "go-
zgtwm" the Motown: mulber-
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said, ’ and_ manufacturers therefore
find It more prontabto to hold tho
raw material for higher prices than
to make but: at this time."
The general butting situation re
mains unchanged today. although
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“signal lights displayedin this city to
WEATHER s'tGNAL LIGHTS.
BOSTON. Aug. 2].——Marlners far
out at sea. coon will be able to see the
forecast the weather. Work has been
started on the installation of these
it on the cast in bottle to r.
dug stifi' resistance but. I’etrograd
reports officially. have been
tl'orced back" further at several
3 points. Austro-(ierman troops
Areal-hell the southwctscrn out-
blocks around. stated, ttt'0\’id(‘s b." “W‘s bill 17 Portskirts of the important Moldavian
Atovvn of ()cna. 7.3 miles southwest
of the povisional Rillllfllllall capi-
tal. Jassy. In the direction of
Fokshani the (it‘ltlilllw‘ took the of-
fensive along the railroad, ad-
vaneng on both sides of it. A
,couutc ‘ attack west of the railwayr
resulted in restoration of the
Russo-Rumanian positions.
011 the northern Russian front
increasing activity is reported.
The Germans are bombarding
heavily the Russian trenches west
of the Tliga-AIitau railroads.
The new Russian offensive in
Caucasian front has resulted in
further victories. (,‘aptnre of a
series of villages south of the Pei-g
mir-Balumer sector is' reported
by the Russian War Office. The
Turks made ati attack it the di-
rection of Kharput and gained in~
itial successes. but subsequently
were expellc’d from the captured.
positions.
British aviators, who have been
making frequent attacks in Bel-
gium, carried ottt another bombing
expedition on Sunday night. They
dropped many tons of explosives
on military objectives. the British
admiralty reports.‘ All the air-
ships returned safely. '
lodged receipt of Pope Benedict's?
peace proposal, btit will do so‘
which transmitted the communi‘?
cation through Ambassador Page.
ROME, Aug. ‘21.:-More than
the Italians in their new offensive,
up to yesterday evening. the War
Ofliee unnomtces.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—.'riie.~'
United States has not yet acknows.
through the British foreign office, ‘-
10,000 prisoners had been taken by 9
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