Light Shows Delegation
How the Ameri ns Are‘
Fighting “Over ‘ ere”'
REPRESENTATIVES “i
so Sillfll um
i
Niew Struggle . From Hill-
side. But Retire When Hun
Shells Drop-Nearby
was the Autumn Forbes on the
Alene Marne Front.
the Associated Press).—-Slx
July 31.—(By
war-
, tired American'éongressman are on
, their way back to Paris
. having
‘ Monday
today after
ltuessed from a hillside on
e tussle for possession of
the town of Sony, two and one-half
"miles southeast of the former Ger-
‘ one base at Fero-en-Tardenois in the
fioiasonahheims pocket.- ,
The congressman saw American
lulantrymen in action, witnessed ll
18
firing of entente allied big guns, and
. heard the rattle of German machine
guns and the crashing of the heavy
(Continued On Page Twelve)
Mahatma.
. PForcibly to the Attentio
sot the\Public
auction of * Americanlzation,
and a bureau to take up the we
_ l
(Qontlnued 0n Pate Six)
uh“
weeks»: ..
' (communion-MST“)
:LS’HEVIK REGIME
12W“
oluuonarv .aad'fiocud hummus
inflows. have arrived. in :
Helm, says“ the f cor‘ies‘
v6 issued , a remarkable
30913114193 49,1 £1?”
, o
The War Conditions Have _ . ,, .
Brought ,This' Question Plan to Unite :Y.‘ M. C.'A.,
. uglish Beauty Asks Separ-
ation — Charges Barlow
Said She Could Be Bought ,
. Lester Barlow, of the Marlin Rock- 63 of themachinery of money drives;
dwell Corporation, whorls gamma“; will avoid unwelcome competition,an
En income of “0.000 a year. be"eve;..wlll localize public attention onmthe'
his wife, who was-Miss Ruby Mal-yon, needs of all the funds at one thus.
to English, beauty. can ‘ be bought.
at is why he wants her. ‘They were
tried in" New-Haven, May 24. 1917, ._
’ a'month agoracoording to Mrs.
ow, lie wrote and Ztoldther or his
can ctlouthst: money~camwini her
lové‘indlnduce her to abandon the se-.
oration suit she baffled against him.
.... lN lllumfilulll
t " 'v j ‘ "“ l M '
> ‘. dent of the Times “1.91753. she
the Bolshevlk regime has, some to lhqj
add that the it
ll
,m —.—_ ,
f HARTFORD, 'July, 31.—Governor
Marcus H: Holcomb has requested the
State Board of'lducatlon to study the
,‘ which
has been brought to official attention ,
by the Connecticut Stirs Council of De-
! use. Under the direction *or the
finite Council of- Defense, an Ame‘ri- lions working along amusement and
niaation committee has been creat- relaxational lines for the military} public. were the subject of a confer.
rk
the state will-be established as an
fje’mergency measure. The Governo
fihaslssked the State Board of Educ
‘ . SUBSINVENT
outnuilllllll
, . , I i Eight Steel Ships and Hur-
‘.,_,nolvnolv, July , aromas. ,WASHING‘T
Caching Stockholm, says the con '
wt
t... 099.1}:
null ; MAN 7" " W ..
[scams PlRll
‘ or 0lf|C|AlS
First Lieutenant Freeman
; cutout
; 30qu lots
1 1 filth-"FM
l Associations—aw“ ‘ Chest
r ed in one blgcombinedfirivebf possl?
a.
‘ plan to give consideration to the mat-
.ter of legislation looking to premanent
1 with modifications in this state.
umémmamm
BIG Sillilff ‘
Friends of Departing Draft-
ees Assemble in Large
Numbers to Say Farewell
m
lNSPllllNii stunts
AND thallium
Service Flag . Raised Con-
taining Twenty-Five Stars
—Boys Made to Feel That
They Will Be Missed
The farewell reception tendered the
colored boys who will leave f r (amp
tomorrow morning was a decide-d one
cess, last evening, the club hall. 122
Water street, South Nurwalk. being
filled to its utmost capacity with
friends of the departing soldiers.
Every available seat was occupied and
many Were standing when William C.
Minion, who acted admirably as mas
ter of ceremonies, called the meeting
to order. it was expected that Mayor
Jeremiah Donovan and ex-Mayor Carl
A. Harstrom would be present and say
lgodspecd to the twenty-five colored
youths who are leaving for the front,
(Continued On Page Eleven)
W
SNE BIS llllllE . ’
‘ K. of C. and Other Welfare
Idea Being Considered—-
Connecticut’s Share of a
Budget of $187,000,000
‘Comlng campaigns for funds by the
six biggest American war organiza-
torces—calling for a total of 8187,000,-‘
000 from the nation—may be conduct-i
bly' three week's duration in the au-
tumn, according to advices from Wash-
ington. The scheme {or combination,
which appears to have the support of
the leaders of the campaigning organ-
i'zatlons as well as that of other inter
ested parties, has been laid before the
WarDepartment. it may be adopted
. 'Apportlcnment of Funds.
.' According to plans as recently an-
nounced by proponents of the scheme,
it is proposed to apportion the funds
received during the combined cam-
paign to the‘slx organizations accord
ing totheir budgets. The scheme, it
is declared, will avert the confusion
which has arisen in the past over the
multiplicity of drives, will combine
and reduce the larggoverhead expens-
o ~._—-—-
\
(Continued 'On Page ’lllight)
‘War Departlnent . Orders
‘ _ on, July nephew“
'_D,epartment,., through MajorGea.
Ems: onc'y-Floet‘vco ration, has-
Bulimia
lHl Jill is
Will PROCEEDS
County Sheriifs Experience
of
e. W. Goethalspiormcr-head oi ' I
the General Shortage
Labor
M
(continued Oli Page Eight)
a
Slilllllilllllfillls
‘ SSAL’AtlSWlNfil
Situation
Bituminous Allotment
WASHINGTON. July lac—Bitumin-
,ous coal wotments for New England: war measures that the tramps,
,Slates, made several weeks a
Fuel Administration but he
Brothers
0
modification of thetregula
made. by Gen. March yesterday.
oflender. being
States.
(Continued on Page Seven)
thebthmii. e
Thimii " ‘°°"° “1‘61“
“ firewalls“? “menus,
t-threa’tened to.
“8h ‘
WASHINGTON,. July 31.—-Wom
,who have brothers serving.in the Am-‘
,erican Expeditionary‘rorces will be
lHilSE REMAININS -
llVli_|_l__lll_l_ill Mil
Courts Give Ofienders Op-
tion of Work, Fight or Jail
‘(Quntlnueo on Page Twerve) v
SflllllEIlS’ SISTERS '
. ‘ smell. wore the clothes 0' the workericoillvsicsccnts. Not a singledollarhes
M A . .3 and could be weeded out by °m°°“,betln spent {0r himdlabor. The com-
. lonly With diillculty. - ding emcers of the varied base
, » The ‘war h
m
hdllbital units have spoken in lavish
tenths of the physical good tothe then
and of the economy‘and efficacy of the
'pla‘h, which insures fresh, luscious
. lvelretable to the patients at a -.-1inl-
cost to the government. ‘
‘ 'llhe army has undertaken .a cou'lpre-l
,helilsive plan of army provisioning,
' along these lines.
,0 his also is cooperatingpy the es-
ishment .of smaller plots in the]
_ Not even the jails in Connecticut are!
escaping the effects of war. 0
,latlous throughout the state are de«
crossing. and The sheriffs in somev
counties are beginning to find the iii-'1 ‘
bor problem as disturbing as the farms
er and manufacturer.
the ages of twenty-one and thirtyvone
are becoming a rarity in the jails. The
rounder is disappearing, and. in most
of the counties, the only classes of'
prisoners that can be “depended upon.”
the sheriffs say, are the old and de-
crepit. whom the misfortunes of life
have overwhelmed. and the hardened
criminal. whose life is seldom changed
by any course of events.
The sheriits and the jailers. almost
Jail popu-
Men between
in NewEngIand
Won’t Permit Reducing
ence between officials of the 'Fuel Ad-j
ministration. the Rail-cad Administra-
Ttion and the Shipping Board and J. J.
,Siorrow, New England Fuel Admini's-5tragglers and put them to work," do-
,tratlon, heading a delegation of state
administrators from New England.
Although no announcement was
made, it 'was said that the new allot- yards, bridges and tunnels have also
ments were not entirely satisfactory" been a thorn in the side of the care:
to therNew England administrators. free wanderer. He is‘ in constant of
who askedthat the figures be revised danger of becoming a target whilst,"
MustMake No Effort to Seel
en
remitted in lutm’to go, to France as - s. PARIS, July :31.--The erWlns ‘ in-
war workersunaer the auspices of the effectiveness ofttbe submarine warfare l is
cellist-{where convalescents are sent
, ,
vAhlGUST PICNICS , ,
AT ROTON POINT,
Red'Cross or other war agancy under a is indicated by oflicialfiguma just Dilb-
ons barring lls ed by then-each Government, re.
{them from the war zone, which was lat rig to the French traillc in the Med-
, It is iterranean. ' ‘ '
:provided that the women are .not to
visitthein brothers while in France,
whether they are sick or well, and a men, with .
viOlatlon of the rule will result in the crossed the ,Mediterranean bet-weenl'ma e, for Di
returned to the United
. .of the .Red Cross and Y. W. C. A. that _
' \
6,.
sh ewllhlnislonteu “hereunder
fortnight of, hotand. dry :weather,’
lfflllPEllfillliSillEill,
uni leulu
. clump nu
Functions of State and Com-
. munity Boards Outlined l
American Troops" 0p
4’
~Mn‘._--
Rain Tonight; Thurs. Partly Cloudy.
For Further Successful
by Director General—Two
Operations Alo g the Marne _ ff
Q Connecticut A tments
Made—C. E. 1an Will
, Represent Employers and
Ira M. nburn Em-
ployees
HARTFORD, July 3L—The organi~ ‘
ration ofatate advisol‘y‘lmards. com-
munity labor boards. and organization
committees, as a part of‘the adminis-
trative forces which, under the United
(Continued On Page Six)
tolls [Eli Al
wuul PillNl
James Fal‘cone, of 138 Lexington
avenue, was seriously injured yester l
ay afternoon at the Emergency Fleet l
Corporation's plant at Wilson's point
Falcons, who is employed at the plant ,
as a yard worker. was; proceeding l
across the yard and to do; so it was ‘
'(Continued on Page’Nlae)
ranMrsnorsma. S
THOSE OF OLD DAYS -’
‘ it
l ST. PAUL. Minn. July 31.~War has
ivlrtuaily blotted out the grimy trail
,of the professional tramp in the Nolih-
f west, according to railroad officers and
,ofilcials of states from Minnesota to H .
‘ the Western coast. =
l The Northwestern ’tier of states, long “
the summer playground of the boxcar
,transient, have so rigorously enforced '11
the "Worker light" order-and other
. reduced to a few lonely stragglsrs.
keen that town policemen and village: .
constables are quick to draft these ,4
headquarters here.
is
looting around his old haunts."-
l In past years towns which were
packed with professional gam lers. a
gunmenand, thugs, who devised “with
ous schemes of fleecing the worker out! on
of his money. They mingled with the, h
as, in the opinion of the;
authorities, sounded the death knell,
of this small army which annually
,reaped a golden harvest.
'3 SUB WARFARE ‘
IS INEFFECTIVE?
mu
According to thede figures, not few- . l
' er than 2 060 vessels, chiefly merchant
atotal toanag'e of 3,509,000,
one‘lxijod’i" resulted .in damages to the Ti:
ships. are one’outbtevory tonaltacks-
rs
\ - - . _ .. _ ~ '«wa‘s entirelylrultie‘ssz The-vteaslt-hu
,RAIN RAISES , v i . -~ lemme
- . FARME-RS’EQPES1
misrrm E
thrust llflES
, lulu IN suit,
Hartford—Shed, With 33
l, ,
laborer Killed by Bolt at1
S Persons In It, Struck—
l.
war plauts_ employing niore than 100 l HARTFORD,
petwoen 60 and 70 years old, an em-
loyo of the park department, was
truck by lightning. at Colt Park, yes-
tuge under. a tree about 150 feet
uth‘ of the cut
lightning struck
45nd then striking
lit“. Policeman John Whitfelt carried
‘elum's body to the caretaker's house
llpd summoned the coroner. The po-
ce and park departments gave De-
lm‘s address. at 20 Front street, but
there is no such number.
- Six Women Suffer from Salt.
THOMPSONVILLB. July Bl.——Ught-
ding struck a tab
which 83 persons
tobacco, and all of them were ,
f by the bolt, Six-w
rod so severely gs
rvlces of physicians.
cover. The shed is the
George Rutherford.
S} (Continued On Pile Keven)
the nanvnsrs 1N"
lPARlS, July 31 (Correspondence of
he Associated Preas).-—Acres and
some of gardens located near the Am-
s'e hospitals are now begin-
to bring forth their harvests 0!.
“Median ba
l
ins wintered in the cities. have been- virgins“;
go by the: formerly appeared in droves after hav- n
ver~madcl
A herlcan wounded. convalescents, who
"And the demand 10" “501' ‘3 30 d lring athslr periods of repose were
,le to attend to the growing of the
p dues.
ct alone has the venture been one
clared an omclal of a railroad withog,‘ 8?“!- economy for tha hospitals.
Title work of cultivation has been plac-
"The armed guards about railroadied, upon the plea
call surgeons so,
laccompllshed in the establishment
tithe gardens. The garden work pro-
tles relaxation for the men after
th‘lllr strenuous times on. the battle-
"Wf int and their painful anxiety in the
lbeodquarters of farm laborers were holipital wards. The diversion acts as
ecreative agency in bringing backl
men to normal mental andvphysi-
state. .
be gardens are worked entirely by
number
February 24 and‘April-1.lllldel‘ escort.“ hel at Boton Point. for the" remainder
.The average number of ships coming of ’i e season by the park' .- cmclais.
1, Thejaction was, taken on the request‘ to or departing from.“ France,.;»was 240,1‘1, following is alschedule of dates
The, Submarine attacks nevertheless! wb lathe park ‘1, being“ used {or ,6!-
they be permitted to recruit 30,000. had so.,dlminished in force that onlygcurpong and ouflngg: :, 5 ‘
' ' ‘ ’ day, August lacanaundale
:‘church (picnic). 1 a , _
u , 3&9?
July lit—Joe Deluro,
rance. to the park.
the tree. barking it.
Deluro with fatal ef' the Allies north of the Ourcq riv- 'o'f Negles,
have driven a wedge into the cue-
my's line and seem to be in a'iposl-
tion to compel a hurried retreat
s;- from Ronoheresand St. (lemme,
“I” 0% th" ‘ lne SM
to cell for ihc'be
All will re-
property on
on shes-«hm An
erect work hang-
Den Soiss’on "and Rheims.
PARIS GARDENS
ing position. .
All were cultivated by been a continuous battle during!
have gained important ground at
vital points.
Immediately south of“ Soissons
and west of Rheims the German
lines are strongly held, but enemy
efforts to improve his position in
the latter region have becnbrokcn
[dDWIL ‘ ‘ I .
There now seems to be' little?
doubtthat the Germans will re-
treat to the Vesle river as‘soon as
possible, any possibility of making
ptlons of the medis
at a double purpose
seemingly gone. .
,tions at, Morris, in, the Lys salient,i
where the Germans were driven
'back by a surprise attack on Tues--
day, there has been a heavy bom-
bardment. , . ‘ ,
General von Eichhorn, the Get-
The American Red iman Dictator in Ukraine, has been
,that the situation in the new re-
public is extremely critical, and
{that many arrests havobeen made.
Von Eichhbm was the second Ger-
man emissary to be slain in Rus-
sian territory since peace has been.
nominally established there. Count
van Mirb’ach, the German Ambas-
sador at Moscow, was assassinated
on July; 6, but Germany, tools" no
action against, the Bolshewk gey-
Vernnlcat,’ holding'that the assas~
., sination was inspiredby .Entente
m Allied. agents who] sought._to in!
‘volve‘ sporty $1dequ at new
ostiliti ‘. 7. ', _ " ’
(By; The Aesooiated, Press.
= -’ Lansing-immord- 30:11.39 , .
Amcricanftrqops havegmade’ab ‘4 ‘
iant endgilaportant advance, fur '
, arsenalslightingaudapporontn
‘ ssh edrt - - am
rs
bookings have been!
les and Outings to be'
Eastern Stites.
remaining
en Way
Our Men Gain Two Miles in a Hall of
Steel, Willi the French and English
Divisions Also Moving Forward.
Germany’s Besl Divisions Pille'difi;
States Employment Service are put- it Williniantic in Darkness— A ' °
~l . . ,
tins into operation the new Govern-l , Rockvflle Also With t galfl$l the Americans at
meat program for the shifting of labor , . .
,i‘i'h‘d‘ becomes effective tomorrow, is 3‘ L?!“ and EOWGI‘ 88 Rest! l} '- .
l n progress in Connecticut. , “I‘ll o . P T
The new labor program of the Gov- l 08 Yes ay 3 Eleancal the resent ' m ea
rnment calls for the recruiting and t ton“
shifting of all unskilled workers in “ ----—-—-
Enemy Driven Over the Ridge ,NOl‘lll
«Sergy and Out of the Villages Nearby.
In spite of the tremendous efeiAmel-icans, and ffley’now are on
forts put forth M" the Germans to the Fetecn-Tardehois-Coulonges
check the relentless pressure 0f;hig:hvray just south of the Forest
‘ "/vllt“:
The advance by the
er, today finds the German posi- Americans late Tuesday measured ,,
“0118 there. _in grave danser. a little less than two miles. French 4';
French, British and American troops on the win
troops, lighting their way forward ,wn rd, and' Allie
' to the east of Fore-en-Tardcnois, west and east flammof the 9°5th ,
is being maintaine'dwitll force.
ln-iheir advance the Americana“
,drovc a new wedge into the mummy."
_ , “line and the Allies are now in'o . f
hi! the rally“ ‘position to drive the Germans back
by flank movements both eat‘lt‘ond
The Allied line today runs southwest of the head of the apex, which 9:,
From Soissons to Grand honey and ’hes néar Nesles. Most exposed is ‘
then it begins to turn to the cast. the German line from the Nesles '
It passes just north of Fore-en-Tar- [region southward through Ciel-gee
denois and continues to the apex,to Roncheres. ,
lot the wedge at the village of‘four miles in length and otters any
Neslcs, where it turns sharply opportunity to drive the Germans .
south toward Roachercs. The Al- from the region southwest of Ville-
lies’ advance in this region seems en ’i‘nrdenois without a frontal "at!
to have placed them in a dominat- tack against the hills to the south.
- Strong efiorts have been made ,
All around the salient there has by the enemy to check the Allies «T
on the flanks and seemingly they “
the past two days, with the Ger- have been successful. 'Attempts
mans launching repeatedmounter- to drive the French from St. Euph-
attacks against the Allied lines. raise, an impbrtant point south—
They have all failed and the Alliesrwest of Rheims. on -- the eastern
flank, however, Were defeated with
losses. Berlin says the fighting , p
front was quiet. Tuesday and that ‘ .3
Allied efiorts Monday were re.
pulsed eve
Some of
here.
eflect .
' mm
g also moved fog-,1
(1 pressure on tille‘ "
The line is about ‘
ermany’s supposedly?
best divisions, the Fourth Pros“?
sia‘n Guard and» 'a Bavarian divi-
s‘ion, were opponents of American
'boys from theMiddle- West and
The Americans
had outfought them. Monday ,in
a stand north of the Ourcq being {the battle for Sergy, and defeated .. _
’ 3thcm badly Tuesday,
Against the new British posi-lthe enemy foughtgaliantl‘y. .,
The Germans were driven over -
the ridge north of Sergy and out -
of the villages of Seringesob:
Nesles and Nesles. Bitter fighting),
took place in both places, but, ,
when night fell thegonly Germans ~-
‘ in the villages were
assassinated ‘at. Kiev. It is statedeldead, victims of their own“ valor
Very few prisoners were taken, 7
desperate was .the- combat which. ‘
raged throughout thej‘entire day.
Nesleil Forest probably will be. ..
defended as stoutly‘ as "was (the
ground ' already taken by.» the-~
Amer'i'ciuls.~ Machine gun and are '
tillery.fir‘e forms the main part o£1._,
the enemy defense. German shell-v '
tirelfrom the forest, however, has
had - little ‘
Americana The Allied positions.
about Sergy alsolwas improved by.
the ‘captnre-'_o§Hill 212 to «the '_
(goth-east '
although
against . the
h 'csmends
I1 _ .
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