J ' . .
flab Violence Will Subside
”When Law Is Adequate,
- I Pica inCongrus
ERDINEV DDIVSIDERS
I IIDIIIIVSVIllE RIDT
I
That Outbreak ls
trong Argument For Im-
mediate Passage of Amend-
ed Espionage Bill
WASHINGMN,,D. C.. April 6.—De-
rounds that German agents in this
I t
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monom,mm
‘0'“.me
IIDRVIIIIII DDD'ARRDSRRRV
EDR URERIV
Speeches and Music
DR. IVDIIIIIIV VAUIS,
DAVID RISI’IIAMSINIIS!
American and-Provides ln-
strumental Music and
Its Approval
"From the familiar Gettysburg
country be shot were made in the Unit- I
ed States Senate yesterday. while.
[President Wilson and his cabinet eon-I
nidered the reports from Collianle.I
Ill; where Robert P. Prager. belleved‘.
so he a German sympathiaer. was
lynched.
Seniors and cabinet members,
~agreed that if the people are to be pre-I
mted from appealing to lynch law
they must be protected by an adequateI
statute law against the activities of;
noise, traitors and the assiduous
npreaders of sedition. ~
Senator 'Lodge said t'te administra-
tion had been dealing too lightly-with
Herman agents in the United States
and that "the only way to treat them.
#' *’ ..‘"
(Continued on Page'Beven.)
RIMS VD CDIII’EI
j SMEIIERS *IDIVDRII'
Drastic M lieu of Clus-
sification would Af-
‘szcet All Registrants—Men
5 Mai in “Harmful”
Pursuits to Be Considered
Wye Sdlve Nation's
Labor Problem
WASBlNGTON. April d—Drastic
- modification of the dralt clahslflcation‘
. lists which would affect in one way
--Dr another the status of every one
I
I
I7
i
. of the millions of registered men is huge building to its doors and every.
-prnphesled in IE plan submitted ‘0 man and woman in the place went
«President Wilson today by omclals of]
'lhe provost marshal general's oillce.
nod the department of labor. Whilei
- the primary purpose of the new se’c-
kind third and fourth classes of mg.
Iatrants who are not engaged in any
productive industry. attention also
, would be given to lower sections of
, plus one, and the effect, itsframers
I mentioned on Page Nine)
FIRE STARTS NEAR
.j ' WAR BUILDING
2" WASHINGTON April 6.42... or
. undetermined origin last night dc
atroyed the upper floor of a building
bear the great state, war and navy
‘. housing. occupied ny the navy bu
loan of construction and repaid and
llhe camouflage section. Home articles
' Ind papers were burned. but the dam
ego is said to be inelgniilcadt.
2No one was in the building except
a watchman. So far as could be
learned tonight, there is no suspicion
.. of incendiarlam. The watchman
thought theblaae started in a pile of
[lapt'l's beneath a stairway.
MAINE FORT IS '
' ‘ DAMAGED BY FIRE
.Posrluum, e., Jim ausculta-
nieebln: in the he at Port Wil-
liamu. on Cape Elisabeth. were driven
out early today by -a me which do.
obeyed three but All the M
u."
edth spreadof
e
lameetothao “""Ilw‘lbd
' '- liouba'ldtng,whaa
speech. our prophets. remind us‘
that the challenge of democracy
is once more in the crucible. lie
' calls us to dedicate ourselves to
our unfinished task, and take in-
creased devotion !rom those who
j already lie in France and mourn
the world Not. We must keep
covenant with the dead, else the
world will not have its new birth
of Liberty.
-—Rev. Dr. Cornelius Woeifkln.
NorWalk's smashing drive of the
Third Liberty been opened last night
I
tat.the Norwalit Armory in a most aus-
picious manner. Between two and
threei thousand people
REV. DR. WOLFKIN
(Continued on Page Two)
in turn
Al mum mum
Trinity (church. will celebrate tomor-
row evening the anniversary of the
declaration of war. for liberty and jus'
tice. The speaker for the evening will
be Private Frederick Howard of the
Canadian and Australian Expedition-
ary 'fd’rces, who comes under the ans-I
piece of the American Red Cross, At-
lantic Division
Mr
mo..t unusual interest.
Enlistlng with Kitchener’s first. 100.-
000 in October. 1914, he left his native
land Australia, and sailed for Egypt.
There In the shadow of the pyraml'd’h'
the troops, weie hurriedly trained and
(Continued—Ion Page Ten)
, ORNAMENTAL LIGHTS TESTED.
The new onumentnl lights were tee
ted this morning at 10 o'clock and
found to beiln perfect working order. I
This evening to celebrate thehrst an
niversary- of the“ entrance of this coun
try me the world war the lights wil
be lighted for' the am public 7ahibi
tion.
The exhibition this evening will be
an East Washington street from the
bridge to the railroad bridge and other
will beaddedjuetasucioklyea
tl'bcta
These
ID.
ightsereuot
aid-ti
1 diSalathehsbtsotbat
mu ovum
Nearly 3,000 People Crowd
Into the Norwalk Armory
to Hear Great Program of
Audience Demonstrates
pacitrd thel
fRDiSIiilllE REID
' Federal Building. Syme. who styled
I' the book published by the ln
.. .al Bible StudentS' WY
Howard 3 experiences in the
pies'ent gigantic struggle abroad are-
many and varied and will prove of the
the
WW
-~—-——~.~.—_
DE AMERICA'S
flRSI WiR VEAR
Great Strides Reported Made
by the United States in M0-
bilizing Forces and, Rais-
ing Money
urusiu'ii ARMY
AND Nivv FDRIJES
War Trade Board to Play
Big Part ill Defeating Ger-
many
.
I
WASHINGTON, April 5.-—The ilrst
anniversary of the entrance of the
United States into the war finds the
great resources of the country just
coming into the struggle but rapidly
being prepared. - ~
The achievements of the first year
are chiefly divided between the army.
which has been supplying and training
lighting forces: the Navy which has
been hunting the‘submarinea and cord-
voying trdope and supplies to Europe,
the Shipping Board which has been
building a merchant marine and the?
tresury which has been advancint
credits to the Allies.
(mulled OB Pu. Twelve)
MIME”
; HARTFORD, April 6.——lon N. Syme,
of Deep River. was before United
States Commissioner Richard I. Car-
roll in the United States Court yes
.tcrday charged with violation of the
Espionage Act and was held in $2,000
Ibonds for his appearance in the Fed-
eral Dairici Court May 28.
At this hearing this morning in the
himself an ordained minister, admit
ted he had distributed "six or seven"
esopie'a of "The Finished Mystery,"
motion-
is book
is held by the Comment Ito tie a
violation of the Espionage Act and its
circulation a criminal offense.
Federal Agent Kirk Dehelle said he
found a copy of the book at the plant
at Pratt, Read and Company in Deep
River. and this may. ava;lable for
general reading by employee, he said,
belonged to Syme.
i Although employed as a workman
iin the player-piano factory. ,Syme.
when asked This occupation, said:
“ordained minister." and said he had
been placed in Class 5 by his draft
board because of that claim. He gave
his age as twenty-six and said he was '
born in Liverpool England. He is
adeclarant, having taken out hlshrst
papers in 1912, but not having become
a citizen—fl
INVESTIDAVIDIV DI
HERMAN IVNBHINII
cm LINSVIEL'E, 111., April 6,—Wil
liam" u. Trautmann, first assistant to
AttorneyGenera'i Brundage of lilinols.
and -.Col Claude L.’ Ryman, represent-
ing the Adjutant General's oillce. began
an investigation here today of the
events leading up to the hanging by a
mob. Tuesday night. of Robert P. Pra
gcr. a German, charged with making
disioyal utterances. This followed a
declaration by Governor howden that
members of the mob must me prose-
cuted.
inquest over the body of Puget-Ale
set for neat Monday. a jury for that
purpose having been secured yeatcr
day. At that time warrants for arreati
of- the participants in the demolistrs”
tion may be issued.
Mose Johnson. district board mem»
ber of the United: Hills Workers of
l
l
I
meat to show that members of the
thetcansedtliemtotake
mm pause Moscow ulnar-sou
«inmate-3W
Wim.
but». ,Inns 8 horses
of Washington and Water streets
A slight auto
H 1’
..._.. . ”A-..
means
street, Wilton, folio
cycle running full till- 0 the dam-
aged machine. resulted lb serials
injury of John 'L. De Jr. the It
sistent postmaster in town. and
the general shaking of William
Beera. who was driving motorbike,
and a fellow student who was in the
side car.
Mr. Davis, accompanied by wiuiua
Gantley, was returning mm Norwalk
in hls‘l‘ord runabout shortly after mid
night. when a sudden blowout of a tire
on one of the frontwh , caused his
machine to skid dl y. across the
street in front "of the residence of Irv-
ing s. Pies-ants. proprietor of the Wil .
ton garage. Mr. Davis heat to (I!
tear of the Pleanants’ widenee and
asked for assistancefthenretnrnlng to
the car. and bending over it to ascer-
tain the amount of'damuge. last as
young Doors and his an be
flying down the Metal t _
and crashed into the It (“Ur
ting it, and splitting db ear
v
squarely through—- the
W... as rugu isms.)
llNEliiN uvu _
Pl-ill’lli FRDIi-lRllIRl
But for the presence 8 mind of
Louis Ruber, a lineman working on
the ornamental lights on Washington
street. a runway that prohbly would
have beeaolaaairous would have motion.
.i
Finch Bron, ran awuy- from the foot
shortly after 10. o'clock this snort-gr..-
Rnbar was at work near the Wash.
ingtoa 'etreet bridge and when he saw
the team come touring up the street hem
came down the ladder he was mounted
on, ran alongside the dray and clam-V
boring in from behind, reached the
driver's seat when the reins were tied
and brought the team to a halt.
l was, one of the most sensational
runaways that has been seen in South ho
Norwik in some time and the fact
that the street was crowded with aa-
tomobilas. ‘people and vehicles. not one
of which was touched‘dnring th'e mad.”
nightclubs horses,- is one oftbo
things that matfi it spectacular.
Ruber was quite modest about his
deed and refused to talk to a reporter
for the Evening Sentinel or to give his
name. Some of his fellow workmen,
however. supplied the missing. dgtails.
What started the team 0! is not
known nor could the driver's name be
learned. The horses were standing at
the front of Water and Washington
streets while the driver was busy and
all of a sudden started to tear up
Washington street in the direction of
the railroad bridge.
LIEUT. Bnn'ro
BADLY BURNED
Charles E. 'Brltto, the popular lieu-
tenant of the local Home Guards, and
employed as a moulder at the Meeker
foundry, had his left foot aevefuly
burned at 3: 45 o'clock yesterday after
min. when a piece of hot clay dropped
from a big ladle of moulten metal, and:
fell inside of his shoe. The top of his
foot was badly burned. and after first
aid was applied he was taken in an
automobile by Bookkeeper Harold
Hyatt to the elites of Dr. Walter Hitch.
cock on West avenue. where after
thorough treatment, the injured man
was taken to his home on Summer
street. While suffering considerable
'pain this morning, Lieutenant Britta.
was considered safe from any perma-
nent injury, and it is the hope of his
boat of friends that he will be about
again in a very few days. .
‘w. c. 1'. U. MEETING. .
The annual meeting of the w. C. T.
rum column
or 33.00], am in
Thirdljbertylioan toFi-
nance Fighting Program
Launched Today , '
WASHINGTON, Apt! l.—One year
from the day the United btatauuutar-
dtbwl'ldwsr.dlebtlanlturted
bearers-anaemmmmm
eitisenaastbeTbirdubuty‘banto
launcethelgbting
ltwaa nay ofpatriotic celebnv
iionaotplraduotauflieruaafiovl
aadeivillaaa mankind togubertb'
m the imporbt part'eacb
rather than to bond sales.
'Preaident Wilson was the principal
to go to Baltimore fit an evening
dress of causal importance,“ consider-
ing the big part Wart-i
about to play in hopes, and other
ternatlonai phases war situa-
The omcial openingbourof tbecaxn-
pain was nine o'clock, local time.
Score-ofsmellcommunltieshadprom-
lsedtoraleetbeirtaliuuotasofsub.
eeflpthnwitbhefewhmndwm
lethe'l‘bh'dflbutylm
tbotriuh
nor
hrlymatu
ecka.
0dr
withlhe mueattobeeoidtbei
ammonium Ailcouldn'the
nti‘edbut buteWw asglven “one of'
the first. " I
ARBOR AND BIRD
DAY, APRIL 19
HARTFORD April 0 .—-Arbor and
Bird Day, April 19, was' proclaimed by
Governor Holcomb today The docu-
ment follows:
State of Conmotlcut.
By His Excellency, Marcus 1!. Hol-
comb. Governor.
A PBOCLAIATION.
Our statutes provide that the gov-
ernor shall anntmny appoint an Ar».
the schools In complinnea therewith
i hereby designate may. the nine-
teenth day of April, nineteen hundred
preas‘upon them that the wanton de
struction of songth their eggs
is a crime, and that the plantingm and
preservation of trees benefits them
and succeeding generations, and me-
te'rially aide to the beauties of their
state, now one of the most attractive
states in the Union.
Given under my hand an seal of the
State of Connecticut at the capitddn
s n. WEB. '
Governor.
By His Sacellency's command.
F. 1.. Perry, Secretary of state.
SOLDIER snor
TRYING To ESCAPE
U. washeldatlbehomeofllrs. lda
Meeker. 8 Reed street. yesterday at-
ternoon and the following were elected
as oilleers for the coming year.
Ersaident, New. Charles Epsilon,
lace-President. lira. Thomas long
eta
Treasurer; In. Trunk Stnrdeveut.
Secretary. litre. E. ”McCleue
America. has promised that “at the . Press superintendent. In idaE. day night.
proper moment” he will issue a state locker.
Sunday school 3mm All!
mobwmmmofmummlutmw'“mu la i “‘7'. driven Pu 0'.
the French atv
moaned
Mum“
her and Bird Day to be observed inl
l-Ial'ti’ord. this sixth day of April. 1913.‘
MW
g 7 ‘ .‘r > . .
I” * ,
:5 ., ,
gymuvammmmm mum
_.......__...______.
Wmmsummnem,
alerts lollrcakl'kmgk the Aliedlhu
latlrder islteaek Anions in Their Advance
llpea Si. 0seaiias.
GreateSt Fight Staged
Marks America’s First
Anniversary Into War
“All isGoiqucll,” _
mil Foch cums
lie-yIcperledlslave‘Sssinacd smear-22
settles.“ iaSerre ikcllriiisli 'i’akcill‘
must play ln’winnlnp the w. I
indicath were fhb malty millionsI "m.
would be pledged bufore night, not-I
withstanding that in many cities the
day was given over to the celebration i'? I ‘
0n the anniversary of the en-' advance north of Mount Renaud. ‘
more than 100, 000 American
are ready to aid theFrene
fidence in the future. As proof
of his statement is the fact that
in the past two days the enemy has
made only slight gains on a 33.
mile front and their have been
equalized in part by Franco-Brit-
ish advance at some points.
French resistance broke the Ger-
man storm Thursday south of 'the
Somme and north of the river, the
British on Friday showed the same
stern mettle before furious as-
saults. The sudden switch in the
attack on the front of tewnty
miles north of the Somme may
have been made to catch Field
atempts was futile. As in the at-
tack on the Franco-British front,
the Germans sustained heavy eas—
uaitiee in their fruitless elf-arts
Marshal Belg stapling, if so, that
”mm.“ W.“ bend-them aoauto-‘vhe‘t'ai’ m”
andlMonIgwouseusianlce-me thefoeandleaminghowlo
Mentummwuusmatst. atSt. Quenthi's.‘ Iand cremaieamning ~
tails, and sensory Daniele at disre- General Foch, the eoannander less enemy. The war
in chief, and under whoes orders has been e12,,oooooo,ooo’ for
Frauen” first
British, declares that the Boche the Allied fleets' in keeping the vii
tidalwaveiabroken“AlliagoingtalaealancsopcnagainetthesWo'
well, "he adds, and expresses eon-{marines and to hold the can!
against the British.
while a’ strong assault was made?“
the British .line, but succeede
from the front line positions he
had enered there
gion of lentil, the Germans were
WACO, Texas, April 0. —Albert Vree
lend. a
lgunshot wounds sustained Sunday
“military”, wbbllm
(instead is (Io-New
York
MMMMWWIN‘
Isuelanddleleddutle Twentieth
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unable to dislodge the British from
their defenses. Southeast of Com-
northotfleanil, theBritiahIaunch-
nightwhenlle alternated bmdmgimkand captured 120
fromeome
u .
tom's-ham mum
en. WW1
Denneourt and Albert, along Taylor. Llewellyn Knapfimu
the Ancre, were the positions :it-g cheater, Raymond Sherwood, nosing
tacked most heavily by the enemy, ‘
near M03; envillc, twenty mics .06 “km, Fm
.noirth of the Somme For many TheSccntsassembledbytroopaafi
hours the enemy surged against met It the Amory under the charge
I
At Moyenville the enemy was save an. gun
thrown back with loss. Between motion.
this point and Albert, in the rc-I '
pflvmdiedbere yesterdays! meconrt in a“, "81°“ of Scrrc Editor'l'be South Norwalb
.W i
“Barnum IMLIIW'Mh'e affirm the Gem“. "mm' readingltwllb ‘
”mafum. ”unmounted-nettle.“
. didiev. AtlailivaainevaLwhevedmll‘lyflle TN-
Mmfl.todeytbatafler1ruthmman'aem.m~n mes
speaker of the day's progreln. lie is trance of the United States intothc There has been lively artillery u.-
“'- ,war, the greatest battle in thatItivity here as well as are-d va—
”mgconiiietiaetiilbeingwagedonthe dun. A“
,n. battlefieldofl’icardy. Theirgreat; The ending of America’n fist
attack halted. the Germans arc waryearilndslaoreb r 1
)1 Wind efv unidaerrnnderm
“0W
year. Uncle Sam’ a
greatly enlarged, continues to
navywithiniteharbors
RDV SDDIIVR IVIID
RHI’ED TIIE IDIINS 1*:
The following are the names oftb
Norwalk Boy Scouts of America "wb '
received badges in the first been ad
aleoqnaliiied in theSecondlnallnl'
received bars' on Second loan:
lurk Candee, Charles I!“
Francis A. Hoyt. Paul Kh-nyer and.
William Anderson. ,
Thefollowingaretbehoylwlomlr "
fled in the Second “but? Boon all
received badges
Franklin Cleverly. Jack B. Coda.
Joseph lalkln, Sallie! Row J.-
Wehie. Gorge Worthy M“?
Clark John meal. Thomas halal.
Frank Lander. Austin until. Our-ll
:1"
Winchester. Carleton Sherwood. Cle-
enceLeehmlus, Theodore No...
tag training gets
they like to get
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