Will Reduce Trolley Fares in Connecticut
Connecticut trolley fares will drop on most of the system starting May 9 after a public utilities commission decision. The panel backs the zone system in principle but orders radical rate changes and a re zoning to one mile zones, excluding shore line lines recently returned by the Shore Line Electric Railway Company.
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Senate approves voluntary military training plan
Washington April 9 compulsory military training was shelved in the Senate and a substitute voluntary plan was adopted in the army reorganization bill. The Senate voted 46 to 9 to substitute voluntary training for compulsory, with 22 Republicans and 24 Democrats backing the Frelinghuysen amendment. Chairman Wadsworth pledged a fight to keep the voluntary plan.
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Senate drops compulsory training from army plan
Absent Senators Frelinghuysen New Jersey and Watson Indiana Republicans favored a voluntary plan while McCormick Illinois opposed it Advocates of compulsory training made a final stand Chamberlain Oregon claimed President Wilson backed it Hitchcock Nebraska and McKellar challenged the statement Senate vote ends compulsory training in the army reorganization bill The House bill lacks training provisions so no training measure will go to conference Springfield Strikers return Indian Orchard Company workers resume after wage dispute National Guard units authorized by War Department include a Connecticut regimental machine gun company.
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