This photograph of Major Raoul fruibery of Wailingi’ord, Conn. reached
.1111) United States the day he wasshot down by a German
He was the most famous American aviator.
T0111 in 'France.
. etté Escadrille and the American
i
tri'planc over
I11 the Lafay-
German planes and some others fell behind the eGrman lines.
servicehe had ofiicially shot down sixteen l
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WHEAT CONSUMPTION "MUST
BE CUT TO ONEIHIRD
HARTFORD. May 29.-—Denla1 of re‘
ports purporting to be based on state»
- me‘ots from Food Administration otl‘l-
clals that further wheat conservation
is tinneCcssary was made in a telegram
train ‘Federal Food Administrator Hoo-
,ver received last night at the office of
Robert S'cofille, federal food adminis-
trator for Conectlcut. The telegram
Bays:
GREENVIHCH WOMAN ASKS
ALIMONY WITH DIVORCE
Stating that her husband has pr-op 1
erty worth 350.000, Euieanne l.. Waite’
of Greenwicbhas brought divorce pro '
ceedlngs in the Superior court against
William A Waite of Greenwich and
asks the court to' allow her alimony if
11 decree is granted. The couple were
married March 29,1916.
I Mrs. Waite alleles that on Decem Chinese
, is twelve ounces.
'1 . m‘solli'ithowmm lessor-111:1.“ _ '41-:
FESTIVE 61101111115111 cits? "no.
DISCARD lN PHILADELPHHT
”: ,
There‘ may eat! 11 “Kettle Trudi"—
8choonero’ cams: Will Be 0111:.
PHILADELPHIA May ‘29 .—The
Philadelphia retail liquor dealers as-
sociation yesterday decided to restrict
the size of the beer glass to a maxi-
' mum of eight ounces and‘to eliminate
all kettle trade betinning June 1. The
average size of beer glasses at present
Beer will be per—
mitted to be taken from saloons only
in quart bottles.
Neil Bonner. president of the Liquor
Dealers’ Association said the action
was taken in order to guarantee the
trade a supply of beer. suillcient to last.
Through the summer months? Brewers.
he said. had informed the association
that at the present rate of 11.01111111519-
’ tion the output would last only to July
15.
The. association, whOse membership
includes proprietors of more than two-
thlrds of the city’s 1.000 saloons also
decided to prohibit sale of all spirit-
uous liquors in any amount whatsoevr
to be removed from the premises. This
was done. it was said. at the request
of Lieutenant Colonel Charles B.
Hatch, who is conducting a crusade in
this city against the illegal sale of ill-1
toxicants to enlisted men.
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THREE MONTHS IN JAIL FOR
SCHEME TO THWART DRAFT
‘ Bridgeport Pair Sentenced in Moral
Court—Quinlan to Serve six
Months.
Five persons (omicted of unions
c1imes in Bridgeport were sentenced
to jail terms or gi1en othei punish
ment when they were heard in tle
United States District court In Hart-
ford yestkrllay The! are: Carrie War
ren and Samuel 'Butlet, three months
for. conspiracy to evade draft: John
Quinlan, embezzlement from Bridge-
port postoiilce. six months: Albert
Martin. using mails to def1aud. 310
fine; Felix Morgan.missst'uen1ents In
draft questionnaire. one day in jail.
-Tbe case of Gee «Sing. Bridgeport. 11
charged with selling opium il-
31 1h 1
“Reports have been circulated that as er lusband “out with an un Inga“), was continued until the June
the food administration oflioials state
‘ further wheat conservation not neces- ‘ “'1'.
known woman to a hotel In New Jer-
As a result bf this Indi'scretion
lcr 111.
W
nary. No statement of the character Mrs: Waite says she I11 entitled to a PREPARE FOR Reuters/171011
has 91 er been issued. The actual po
sltion is that our supplies until harvest
allow home consumption of approxb
111111er or one third normal if we are
to .maintlaiu‘Ailles supplies. Actual
position 15 that in Iarmers‘ hands andi
storage we had at the beginning of
May 75,000,000 bushels otwhear't'o'
catty us for approximately 1111“
months or with an early harvest pee tmly last. night by federal agents in a
Our normt‘ raid in this city and'at Savln Rock. a
hope two weeks shor'te1.
consumption for three months would
he h20.000.000 bushels not allowing for
our allies.
“HOOVER."
Antlverttse in the Sentinel.
divorce. She also wishes to resume
her maiden name of Euicunm loan 1
son
RAID AT 3AVIN ROCK,
50 HELD AS “8LACKE'R8.”
. £5151 HAVEN. May 211~A 10111 :10.
men of draft age weret taken into cus-
West shore resort. the men being
taken to the state armory here for
questioning as to their 11111115111115
when‘they could not show cards. Ret-
icence as to the disposition of the
cages wasmaintained by the gainers.
OF ALIEN WOMEN. JUNE '17
Registration of unnaturalizcd Ger-
man women in Norwalk will begin on
July .17. Every German alien female
above the age of ii must report to the
pollen headquarters where Chief Pen-
nington. will be In charge of the regis-
trailon.
Each woman must all that day tile
live autographed photographs of her-
self. till out. four blank forms of regis-
tration and leave a copy of her finger
prints or be liable to Imprisonment or
interment. The order does not apply
to Austrian or Hungarian women ex»
cept those married to Germans.
W
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the Nation’s Needs
If you 1:81: a New Perfection Oil o‘olt Stove you Can givie
total to the nation—find gain gals-stove comfort.
But the New Perfectmn rs the only oil cook stove that
- gives re‘al gees‘tove comfort with
, Blue Chimney ‘albne insures cleanjntense, instantaneous
" he‘at (tree from soot and odor} for every cooking need.
3.000.000 now in use. '
7‘ " Made in l 2. 3. and 4-bum‘cr sizes, with or w1thout
, ‘ cabinet tap. Also 4-burn'cr stove with cabinet and heat'
‘ s 1 ‘ retaining overt complete.
50- CO-N'Y- Kerosene and the New Perfection mean clean. econ/JnX
ical. ready ken-.tre‘edon from ’coal’ hods and aslr pans.
‘ Use SO-CO-NYKeroIcna—economicak convenient. . ll
sraupatlfth octet/115m or {NEWHYO’RK :1
kerosene. Its Long
"The U. 5. Fuel Administration on-
thorlm us to combat it considers the
’ In of oil cook lion” and oil heaters
at this time a very important hot in
. the necessary conservation of can lay
r purports."
Ask your dealer about the
cw Perfection Kerosene
Water Home“ and regular
New Perfection ovens-
none better.
a m
,3 firm or Dwight. a Scdfille area Cedar
1 _, ml c1111 Hedi
“815w.
wannssnav, MAY 29, 1513.
:iiints‘ at Serious
Situation.
SKETCH OF MR. SCOVILLE.1
_._.————v
Runs 1,300 Acre Farm in Selle
bury and 'Has inhalant Ag-
ricultural and Dairy
interests.
incesswsos;itsw
ll'u'tford Monthly. —~l\fr. “mum‘s
(‘ll'ill 11ml 1111:1111 appeal to umscrvc
more nheut and tor those who can 1111
abstain from all wheat produtts was
read In over a thousand (‘olmccticut
ehurthes on 8111111111 and is 1"1-p1intcdf
'on this page t."'111111ettltut's Federal
Food Adrnlnlstrutor. Robert Scorillc.
earnestly seconds Mr. Hoover‘s request
{or still further wheat saving in this
state 111111 cells upon the 101111 people of
Connecticut for greater suc'rilitcs,l
which are a real military 11111111111111
lir.".\‘coville repeats his formct 11 um-
lug-that Connecticut 111111‘ be In a bad
way for wheat this summer unless
HON. ROBERT SCOVILLE.
necticut.
there IR
1!“ their 11111111111' meal from their (lin-
11111' pulls unless the people who am-
tlll their meals 111 home 111111 everybody
else who run possibly (In so cuts their;
weekly wheat consumptlm1 to one 111111
one-quarter pounds 111‘ less.
Who «Mr. Scovllle 1..
In response to requests for 11 life
sketch of Mr. Scovllle. who character-
Isticuliy bundled his legislative. 1111111.
biography in elm e11 nerds. mentioning
that he was born In Buffalo in 1870, the
educational division of the Federal
Food Administmtinn for Connecticut
lms cmupletctl the following oiliclul
biography:
Robert Scoville. Federal Food ‘Ad.
mlulstrutor {or t‘unnccticut. was born
Jnntmry 4. 1870. 111 Buffalo. N. l'..
where his father, Nathaniel if. Scovlilc,
n nutlvc utilallsbury. (From. was then
in business.‘ The elder Scovllle died in
1800. but Fond Atltnlulstrntor Scoville‘s
mother, Mrs. Frances \Vnsson Scovlllc.
In still alive and resides with three of
her tlnugbtcls nt 10 East FII‘Iv- second
street \‘ew York city a fourth dough
ter Il1lnlr in Salisbury
His father's iron Interests rcquiriujv
his re111o1 11! to Ve1v‘)",ork Robert K111-
vlle entered Bel’klcyfielrot1l..\‘e11‘ Ymk.
grtlduutlulr i11181l3.[p11n leaving
school Robert Scoville Immediately us-
earned the management of Ith tuther‘ s
varied interests, 11111111V of them- sent-
tercd througho‘nt the cou11t1v.11nd also
the Scovillc Int-1'11 of 1.500 acres in T11-
conic, town of Stillsbury.
Studied Law in New York.
He found time in connection with his
agricultural activities to stu1l1 law for
a year at the New York Law School
and soon after be reached Ills mnjoritv
Salisbury nominated him on the lie-
publicun ticket. and he was elected 11
member of the house of represcntu
tivea in 1901 111111 again in 1008 The
late H011. \fichnel Keuealcy was speak-
er‘ln 12103 and appointed the youthful
member from Salisbtiry as chairman
of' the Committee 011 Constitutional
Amendments (House) and a 1111311111011
of the Committee on Incorporations. It
l wn‘s Mr. Scovillc's committee that Imu-
1lletl the report of the cm1stltutio11nl
convention of 1902. whose proposed
constitution was rejected at a state
referendum in October. 1902.
I From 1890 to 1913 Mr. Scoville Iruv-
eled extensively abroad, visiting nearly
e1cry country in the world. His 11ng-
cultural connectious have brought him
111 contact with e1ervst11te in the
Union and much of Canada.
His brorber. Herbert Seovlllc,‘a grud-
uate prom Harvard lion Schoot’lu 10011
and a member of the New York law
, street, is now in Boats with the Ameri-
Cross, . Hie uncle. Jonathan.
1.13.171. reusral Food Administrator *
11mm. they have known
Federal Food “Administrator for Con-
1111 Immediate reduction In
wheat consumption, and he hinted tlmt.
serious hardships might come to the
laboring rinse and the 111011 whomust
took over the. active nutnngement of
"lost.
0.! Baillie 9nd 1 Denna-
:“vaiue Seconds
Hoover 8 Appeal
*titiiit'ktt-kii'kiiti
I: TO THE PEOPLE OF OON-
Nec'ricua': '
The scriouo'oituatlon which we
are nowfacing alone justifies our
asking additional service“ from
the loyal citizens of Connecticut,
who have responded'so often to
our appeals for assistance. The
cask of reaching our entire popu-
Iatlon is one of great magnitude
and necessitates the employment
of every agency. Without the
assistance of the reading public
it would be impossible for Mr.
Hoover’s “no wheat" message to
reach all the people of Connecti-
cut. Yours very truly,
ROBERT SCOVILLE.
Federal Food Administrator.
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tfiti>§lrfiittt*é**l>fitfil>
111'a1lc member of t‘mturess’ut the time
his friend. (:rover t‘icvclund, was gov-
ernor of New York state. When linh-
111 N (11 tiles beautiful comm home
111 v‘I:111111'1c burned to the 11111111111 .iunu— ,
11111 13.1017, not the Ic'lst important
1111s the loss of a file of interesting t‘(ll‘—
‘11'espo11tle11ce between Governor t‘leve~
,luml and Jonathan Hcoville relating to
'pnlilical appointments in New York
state.
Governor Recognized Ability.
\l'lteu President Edward Jones of the
Stutc Cluuuber of Commerce called Ills
meeting of fifty representative citizens
:11 the Hartford Club soon utter the.
. i'nited States entered the war Mr. SCO'
ville was running those present. and he
was also a n1e111l1cr of the number com-
mittees then appointed. 011 April 111.
I017, Governor Holcomb took over this
committee and appointed the members
;to he the Connecticut Committee of
. Food Supply. 11: which George M. Lau-
;1icrs ls cbulrman and which has active-
ly cooperated with the work of the
Fund Administration in Connecticut.
President Wilson lllil not sign the
Lever Food (‘ontrul Al't until August
Ill. 1017. but Herbert Hoover, 1"11ited
States Food Administrator, informed
. .\I1'.
to be Fedeini Food Administrator for
,(‘11111111t'ticut. Although many t‘onnccti-
Scoxille .lulywl, 1017. that he was
out people have known little about the.
his remarkable
work as Federal Food Administrator
for the state since the full of 1917.
He is 11 member of ll1e
1 Knights of Pytblns. Elks, Masons. prose»
1mm of the Ann-rich" Guernsey thlttle
(‘lub,di1'ector of the Eastern States
Auriculttmil 111111 Industrial Exposition
t' ompuny, diret tor of the Amcrlctln
\urleultuml society. president of the
Robbins Hun ill Trust Comprmy of
Lnkevilfe, trustee and trcusurer of the
Hotchkiss School and president of the
Salisbury Associntlom lie is also 11
member of the Hartford Club, the Sad.
die and Sirloin t‘Iub of Chicago and of
1 the following: New York clubs: Metro-
Lawycrs'
polituu. Ilnukcrs'. tiroller.
and Sleepy Hollow (‘ountry (.‘lub In
recounttim of his splendid 1v'111k for
11111! consumption of
food In tilts stifle the Connecticut Auri-
the production
cultural (iollcxc 111 Storrs on M31111.
ltIlS. conferred on Administrator Sco-
\'lile the honorary degree of Master of
Science. . .
11111” SAVE 1111111
IlflWS,‘_Sll_S IIIIIIVEII
Warns Dairymen Their Herds
May Have to Feed Allies’
Children.
The dairy herds of the country must
be 11111111tninctl :11 their full strength
for the benefit not only of the genera-
tion now engaged in war, but for the
future gonerutbms us well, the children
who will suffer If the herds are per-
mitted to dwimlle. Herbert 0. Hoover,
National Food Atlrninistrtor, ioltl (Ini-
rymen at 11 conference in the dairy
show In Gmml Central Palace, New
link
“Fur hcvoml our domestic (liiliculties .
is out \v'oiltl duty." said Mr. Hoover
“I‘nrullel with this enormous and con:
tiuning destruction
to stnml ready for any demands upon
us by our allies.
to 11s to send millions of our best men
to France If we. full to maintain the
strength of their men, women and cl1il~
tlren 1111 our lines of cmumunlcntion.
U. 8. World’s Last Reservoir.
"After the war/the. time will come.
1ll1en we will need to replenish their:
herds fmm our own cattle. This Unit-
ed States is the last reservoir of men, -
the 111st reservoir of ships. the last res-
t‘tvulr of unmit'lous and the last reser-
voir of food upon which the allied
,world must depend it Germany In to
be, defeated and if we are to be free
lll(‘ll
. "It therefore dcxolves upon us to
maintain our present great potentilli
strength in herds. for .theyjcannot he
reestablished for mnnl‘_.years if once
Not only most they be maintain—
ed as 11 gunmntrejo our allies. but
they 11 ill be vitra‘ in the world's re-
generation.
“The day may yet come when the
child life of the whole or Europev'vill
.be in the baptism! an American dairy-
man. .
111,511 plane or serylce to the World."
.
in Europe we
must build our food resources so as
It is of no purpose
[place this before you on the
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Men S' Summer Wear
Shirts of silk, silk fibre or a {10011 quality madras,
finished with double I'l'tuch cuffs
irom $1.50 to $0.50 each.
Madras Shirts, fancy striped cii’ccis, very neat
and effective, all with collars attached,
$1 25 and $2.00 each.
nglite Shirts made of Indian Head Cloth, '11 very
good wearing cloth sure to be popular, collars
attached, $1. 50.
Pure Thread Silk Hose, plain, clocked or in fancy,
striped effects, high spliced heels, double soles,
75 0111.11 pair
ThreadSilk Hose in the new Cordovan shades,
' high spliced heels and double soles, 59 cts. a pair.
W ash Silk Ties in open end styles, $1.00.
Ties'that are-easy to launder in 11111113], Jacquard
and satin striped effects, the best kind for sum-
mer wear, 25, 50 and 65 cts. each.-
’An endless assortment of Crepe, Grenadine and
Silk Ties. open end finish, all colors represented,
75 cm. to $3.00.;
Soft Collars, the correct styles for wear 11‘1ith‘ ’
wash ties, 20, 25, 35 and 50 cts'.’
Belts of black leathcr,ad1justal1lc buckle, spat-oI
for initial, $1. 00 each.
. Bathing?
1151111511511 happens to be warm
1
Rubber Accessories, Bags for suits, Rubber
Garters and Caps. Caps are lovely and practical.
all the latest; whimsies of a mad water fashion
are evidenced.
Tam O’Shanters, a 111 Harry Lauder,
rubber tassels.
Jockey Gaps with visors to keep sunlight
from the eyes.
Hats With Shirred brims, all of rubber.
Close Fitting Gaps with quills and birds
rosettes and ribbons.
Littlevred and green Caps which look like
those which lcpl'cchauns wear.
with
25 (its. to $1.50 1. ;_ 1
Main floor. north aisle.- i
.
Silk Gloves for Women ’
, 'As a war time economy silk gloves are much
in evidence. Two dependable makes, in good as-
sdrtment, have arrived in time for the holiday:
Fownes’ and Kayser’s Gloves of heavy silk,’
two Clasps, white and black trimmed with self
Paris point backs, ' $1.15 to $1.50 a. pair."
u-..-»
-~.; - W.....m.~.
Townes’ and Kayser’s' double tipped gloves ..
.two Clasps, white only, ~ 59, 75 and 85’ cts.
Cotton Ghamoisettes, two clasps, all white or
- whrte with black, "‘ 85 eta.z
Lisle Gloves, two c1asps,111ntc only; 50 (1158.,
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Main 000111;. 1
A New War Book
by a. New Haven girl.
I'Liegé" ' Glenna'Bigelow
.The story of an; American girl’s experiences when the
Germans came through Belgium. A journal kept from
Lay to day, vividly told. July 30 to November 12,1914! '
_ ¥ . $1.110
.. .. ,. . ‘ »—- -1 - At Book Section.
United States Flags—3 11.5111 to 8 ft.12 111.,
moderate prices for good bunting. . . -.
Se’rvice Flags. 1 .‘
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