New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL | LOCAL NEWSFAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD! HERALD “ADS" BETTER BUSINES PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916 —SIXTEEN PAGE S ESTABLISHED 18] "TOTAL BRITISH LOSSES UP TO JAN. 9, 549467, » Average of 685 Daily For Previous Month Which Totalled 21,240 FRENCH BLUEJACKETS OF ANT veral Sections of the Army of Gen. Koevess Meeting With No Opposi- tion at Medua and Allesio Are Now Marching on Durazo — Greece Watching Movements of Bulgarians in Southern Albania. London, Jan. 28, 10:53 a. m.—Pre- mier Asquith, in a written reply to a request for information says that the gtal British casnalties in all fields of operation up to Jan. 9 were 549,467, of which 24,122 were officers and 525,- of other ranks. Flanders and France: Officers killed, 5.218; wounded, 10,217; missing, 1,661. Other ranks, killed, 82,130; wounded, 248,990; missing, 52,344; total, 400,510, ~.Dardanelles: ounded, 3,14 Officers killed, 1,745; ; missnig, 853. Other nk; Killed, 26,455; wounded, 74,- 432; missing, 10,901; total, 117,5649. Other fron Officers killed, 918; wounded, 816; missing, 101. Other ranks, Kkilled 11 1; wounded, 15,- 166; missing, 2,656; total, 131,408. Grand total, 549,467. Comparatively Light Losses. The winter’s inactivity on the fight- ing lines is reflected in the compara- | tively light losses of the British dur- ing the last few weeks. The, previ- ous official British report, made by Premier Asquith on Dec. 24, gave cas- | ualties up to Dec. 9 at 528,277, show- ing a loss in the intervening month of ; 21,240, or 685 daily. i During the heaviest fighting Brit- ish casualties have run far in excess of this average. They amounted to | a settlement with the majority OCCUPY TOWN IPHILO IN ASIA MINOR SLOPER NOT TO SHARE IN TITANIC $660,000 Was Not Member of Protec- tive Association of Sur- Vivor: William T. Sloper of this city, who was one of the survivors of the Ti- tanic disaster, will not share in the settlement amounting to about $600,- 000 which is to be made with some of the rescued pa; by the White Star Line, of the fated ship. Attorneys for the White Star Line announced last night that they had completed a settlement with a majority of the Titanic claimants. , Shortly after the sea tragedy, Mr. Sloper filed a claim against the White Star Line for the loss of his baggage and personal effects. Later the sur- vivors formed a protection associa- tion to push their claims against the company. Mr. Sloper was invited to join but he did not do so, believing the investment of his share of the lawyer's fees would not be worth the venture. When told today that the company’s attorneys had arranged for of the survivors for $660,000, Mr. Sloper ! ngers owner 0,000 in the battle of Loos alone, in a period of two weeks last fall. The monthly average from the beginning | of the war is about 32,000. % The British losses in the preceding the perlod covered in to- | day's report were still smaller. The @tal from Nov. 9 to Dec. 9 was 17.! 997. | { month | French Occupy Antiphilo. Paris, Jar —A despatch to the atin that French bluejackets have occupied the small town of An- tiphilo on the coast of Asia Minor op- posite Castelorizo. A Havas despatch from Saloniki the French armies were landed m a warship which was supported by two armed trawlers, and took pris- oner the local garr n, consisting of a cdaptain and twenty-five men. They destroved the telegraph wires, seized a number of documents, and permitted Greek families which had been driven away fo return to their dwellings. Marching on Durazzo. A@aris, Jan. 28, 5 a. m-—A despatch from Milan sa that veral sections of the army of Gen. Koevess, having met no rasistance at San Giovanni 41 Medua and Alleséio, are now march- ing on Durazzo, according to the \l‘len° correspondent of the Secolo, i advance guards were reported on nesday near Kroia. It is said that oevess tries to enlist Albanian and, when they refuse to ¢ to buy their arms, thus rm the population and pselves against attack. consent to part with s of the Bulgarians in are followed with Sreece, the despatch 4o said he was satisfied with the judg- ment he used when invited to join | the protective association. Mr Sloper does not anticipate re- | ill- | SAYS PREMIER ASQUITH| 24,122 Officers and 525,345 of Other Ranks , LOVED DOCTOR FROM BOTTOM OF HEART Mrs. Mohr Declares Under Cross- examination at Murder Trial Enters Vigorous Denial That Phys cian Was Intoxicated When He Mar- ried Her at Lynn, Mass, in 1909— Providence, R. I, Jan. 28.—Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr was under cross- examination again today in the trial in which she is charged jointly with two negroes with the murder of her husband—Dr. Franklin Mohr. She described anew the alleged brutali- | she loved him. “I loved him' from the bottom of my heart. He almost killed me one day but he loved me the next,” she declared, To the intimation that her marriage with Dr. Mohr, at Lynn, Mass., in 1909, the only one of which the state claims there is any record, would not have taken place but for involved in an insurance entered a vigorous denial. true, she said, that Dr. toxicated when performed. Admits Correspondence, The witness admitted that she had corresponded with Stable boys and other servants for the purpose of keeping watch on her husband, Among these boys was C. Victor Brown, who, Wwth his half brother. Henry H. Spell- man, is a joint defendant. Mrs. Mohr was still on the stand when recess was taken. Resumes Cross Examination. Resuming the Attorney General Mrs. Mohr concerning an incident described by her on direct examina- tion when she stated that Dr. Mohr had thrown her fur coat out of a bath room window. Asked if she had called the nolice she replied “Yes, an officer nearby.” She admitted that she knew Chief of Police Crowley of Newport. “Havent you your home?"” “Mr. and o my clairh, she It was un- Mohr was in- that ceremony was cross examination, Rice questioned Mr. Rice asked. Mrs. Crowley have been celving any remuneration for the losses caused him when the Titanic | went down. He said he would be very much surprised should he re- ceive word he was to be recompensed. | He did not file any claim for the per- sonal inconvenience caused him by the disaster, CHANGE OF INTERNAL POLICY OF RUSSIA Absolutely = Necessary President Duma Declares in Letter to Premicr. Berlin, Jan. 28, (By wireless to Say- ville).—The Overseas News Agency today gave out the following: “The Russky Slovo (Petrograd) re- ports that President Rodsianko of the Russian Duma, has written a let- ter to Premier Goreymk in which he asserts that the present condition of affairs in Russia makes absolutely necessary a change of internal policy. M. Goreymk called a meeting of the cabinet, at which it was decided that the premier should inform Emperor Nicholas of the letter. “The premier probably will utilize this opportunity to impress upon the emperor the undesirability of conven- ing the Duma, a majority of which is opposed to the present Russian gov- ernment.” WILL OF HENRY GUSSMAN. HTS AND OR PEACE lares—Swiss ility for to Say- ered of ut- cted Wer- aid: Deo- re- But ene- fe of eart hemy f de- place the ritory pond- es not for for muth, 1 ““Fhe mY will fin ward for act} we do not long my started out w stroying the cour ‘of Burope. When) abandons an effort o) féat, he claims an 5% hopor in history. entral Powers conqud their enemies refer to ency. Therefore, our co talk of peace, Goes n¢ peace, but fights and peace.” At the commercial Prof. Schaer, a Swiss ¢ an address that neutra responsibility for the rests not on Germany but on the tente allies. Fle concluded his remarks by propos- §ng cheers for EmperorqWilliam. school =aid in agree Estate is Left to Testator’s Daughters and Granddaughter. The will of Henry Gussman, drawn on May 9, 1910, was filed in the court of probate today. Mr. Gussman left the property at 34 Pleasant street to his granddaugh- ter, Bertha G. Barnard, wife of John E. Curtin. If she should die without issue, the property is to be divided between his daughters, Bertha Fenton and Carrie Hurlburt. The residue of the estate is bequeathed to the two daughters. The witnesses of the will were Charles M. Schurr, Frederick T. Perks and R. E. Krienberg. TO OFFER NEW CONTRACT. Contractor Hennessey Completes First Repairs at Ice House, Edward F. Hennessey, building con- tractor, completed the contract for the initial repairs to the municipal i house sterday afternoon. This in- cludes the repairs to the interior. Chairman Rossberg of the water department said today a new con- tract would be submitted to the com mon council at the special meetir next Wednesday night. This will be for further repairs. The first repairs cost $1,240 and the other repairs will cost $1, if the contract is ap- proved. 35, | told them | £ house several times. Mrs. Crowley was a very good friend of mine.’ Not Intimate With Chicf. Weren’t you intimate No. The alleged confession of co-defendants stated that M not to be afraid with the police. st Serious Quarrel. The witness said the “First ser- ious quarrel with the doctor” occur: ed in February, 1909. It started, she said, when he began taking drugs and Mohr a she “stood in' | beating her, of | “l understand you to say he drove you out of the house?” #¥es, i Iy told s him ST leave him.” “And there was no occasion for the beatings other than that he got drunk and used drugs?” was going to Excluded by Court. Certain questions relating to an in- surance policy taken out by Mrs. Mohr on the life of Joseph Hannon, her nephew, and litigation that fol- lowed, were excluded by the court. Mr. Rice explained that he was trying to show that the trial of the insurance suit was postponed sever- al times and did not come up until after the second marriage ceremony at Lynn in 1909, Had No Knowledge. “Didn’t you know that in that suit you had to testify you were the wife of Dr. Mohr?” “I don’t know anything about it.” “Didnt you go to Lynn to have the marriage ceremony performed for the express purpose of enabling you fo testify in the insurance suit that you were Elizabeth F. Mohr, wife of Dr. Moh “Certainly not.” Not Intoxicated When Married. “Didn’t you take Dr. Mohr to be married while he was the influence of liquor?” “1 did not.” “Didn’t Dr. Mohr if he ever did marry | he was intoxicated? “No sir, because | toxicated when he was married.” “Didn’'t you know that in this cross petition for divorce he charged vyou with_extreme cruelty and adulter: “Yes sir “And didn’t you know he claimed in the petition he was never married to you?” Woman’s Counsel Objects. under always say that you it was while he was not in- Arthur Cushing, Mrs. Mohr's coun- sel, objected. The attorney general showed her the bill and asked her if she found any allegation there, where Mohr admitted he married the wit- nes I Mohr. “Have you any further proof or witnesses that he admitted h mar- riage to you excepting your word?" ord the Truth.” truth” don’t find any” replied Mrs. ‘My she plied. Mrs. word is the re- Mohr said that in June, (Continued On Tenth l'age.) REPEATS ANEW BRUTALITIES | ties of her husband but asserted that.| a question | entertained him at | with him?2” | te Lynn | 1909, BRANDEIS SELECTED FOR SUPREME COURT Nomination Sent to Senate by Presi- | dent Wilson—Surprise Every- where in Official Circles. Washington, Jan. 28.—President Wilson today selected Louis D. Bran- | deis of Boston to be associate justice of the supreme court to succeed | laté Justice Lamar. Mr. Brandeis' nomination the senate today. It w: everywhere in official circles. Mr. Brandeis has never tioned for the vacanc: BRITISH STEAMER went to Great Anxiety Felt Regard- ing Appam With 166 Passengers Aboard London, Jan. Grave anxiety 10:05 a. m.— regarding the which left 28, felt British steamship Appam, Daker for Plymouth with 166 passengers crew. When about | wireless communi | vessel suddenly rom Hull to Lloyds British steamship having passed at sea on January a life boat with the name Appam painted on the stern and the bow knocked away. is on January 134 days with the A despatch s that the Tregantle reports and in the four tion ceased. London, Jan. concern 28.—For several days pe has been manifested in | the Appam, many days overdue on a ten day trip from Dakar, in French colony of Senegal, Africa, for Plymouth. In the ance market hope was nearly doned and was | reinsurances even at the high of guineas per cent. Two or three other coming in the me direction as the Appam also are overdue, Among the 166 passengers on hoard the Appam were colonial officials. report - from Lisbon recently nounced that mines had been covered in the Bay of Biscay. The lifeboat with the name Appam painted on the stern reported by the eamship Tr itle w passed by that vessel in latitude 24 north, longitude 14.32 west West insur- it rate an- ais- the negro | | The Appam, of [ feet long and | uilt in 1913 by Harland and Wolff | at Belfast, Treland. She was owned by the British and African Steamship Navigation Co. 81 feet tons gross, 57 beam, was MAY COURT-MARTIAL U. S. ARMY OFFICERS Who Led Detachment of Soldiers Into Mexico to Rescue Comrades Cap- i tured by Bandits, ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Court-mar- tial of the three American army offi- cers, Lieutenants Peyton, Mort and Waldron, who led a detachment of sol- diers into Mexico to rescue two com- been captured by near Brownsville, result, if an in- that they violat- oss the internation- al boundary line. In that case, it was said, also, they probably would be held responsible for the death of the four members of the rescue party who were drowned in the Rip Grande while returning from the expedition. Secretary Garrison who is awalting the outcome of the investigation said that positive orders had been given army officers not to cross tre bound- ary line without instructions from ‘Washington. Prompt action on the part of Carranza authorities in returning the American soldiers, un- harmed, was regarded here as indi I tive of a desire to prove their inno- cence and to show good will toward the United States. | | | rades who had armed Mexicans Tex., probably will restigation prove ed orders not to | two captured JOCK CASHIER IN VAULT. Two Bandits Then Escape With $2,500 From Smoaks S. C. Bank. Smoaks, S. C., dentified men late the bank of Smoaks, a state institu- tion here, overpowered C. A. Thomas, the cashier and escaped with approx imately $2,600 in currency after locking Thomas in the vault. The cashier later was found conscious and explained that one the men had some liquid preparation in which had overcome him. ally fair and somewhat colder h tonight and Saturday. PSS AN, 28.—Two uni- Jan. vesterday entered un- e thrown his face WEATHER. Hartford, o Hartford and vicinity: Gener- 28.—For a surprise | been men- | PROBABLY SUNK | occurred this morning at her home | 11| out | 16 | shipping circles regarding the fate of | the | aban- | difficult to effect | steamships | A the | of | LIVES T0 BE 101 SUCCUMBS TO GRIP Mrs. Phoebe G Gowles Plain- ville's Oldest Resident, Dead (TOWN'S ONLY- CENTENARIAN 1 { Born in Scott’s Swamp District in 1814 and Had Made Her Home in New Britain Suburb all Her Life—Funer- | | al Monday. i (Special to the Herald.) Plainville, Jan. —The death of Mrs. Phoebe Crampton Cowles, which | on Broad street, following an illness | of about two weeks, marks the p: ing of Plainville’s most beloved resi- dent, the town’s only centenarian and one of the oldest women in the state. ! Mrs. Cowles was in her 102nd year, | having passed her 10ist birthday on September 18. Her condition had been precarious for the past week and her | death had been expected since Sun- day. rhe funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from her home. Services will be conducted at the house, Rev. F. L. Grant, pastor of the Congregational church of which she had been an active member for a great many years, officiating. Inter- ment will be in the Cowles plot in the Scott’s Swamp cemetery. Born in 1814. Mrs. Cowles' long and wonderful career which ended today had its be- | ginning in the Scott’s Swamp district, where she was born on September 1814. - She first saw the light on farm located about a quarter of mile west of Scott’s Swamp corners in Farmington and now owned by August Anderson. Her father, Stephen Crampton, was born on the same place forty vears before her. Her mother, Amy Root, was a member of one of the best known families in this section in her day. She was born and married in the old Elm Tres | house, on Neal's court, which was | razed a fey year: then a part of Farmington, the two | places not having heen separated un- til several years after Mrs. Cowles’ birth Nearly a a seventy-five years ago Phoebe Crampton became the bride of | 1 Cowles, a well known agric nd the couple went to live m in Scott's Swamp, her hu cultivating the land on which First Selectman W. J. Johnson now makes his home Four children, two of whom in infancy, were born to them. two surviving daughters, the Mi; | Blizabeth and Katherine Cowles re. side on Broad street. having always made their home with their mother Her husband died nearly thirty years | ago. | Ezek tur: on a band died The Charitable Quiet. Mrs. Cowles was a woman of love- able character and many benefitted by her benevolences during her long ! live. Never given to ostentation, she performed her good works quietly and and her charities were known to few. She was a prominent church work- er and for a great many years sha was active in the affairs of the Con- gregational church. Besides raising her own family, Mrs. Cowles and- her husband also | brought up a grand niece and nephew Mrs. Frederick Barnes, who lives in the far west, and Frank Buell, a resi- dent of Plainville. son also made his home with them during his early life. He naturally has taken a great interest in the aged woman and assisted her daughters in looking after her during the last years of her life. and Possessed all Her Faculties. Although she had passed the cen- tury mark, Mrs. Cowles enjoyed good health and was in full possession of all her faculties until two weeks ago when she became ill with grip. She was able to read and write with bet- ter success than many people much younger. She was. interested In cur- rent events and until her illness kept well informed on the happenings of the day. Her reminiscences were a source of great interest to her friend: as she spent her entire life in thit section and had watched it grow from a big expans e of uncultivated land with but few houses to a hustlin community, with thousands of peopl: | living where but a hundred or so made their homes during her child. hood. She was the possessor of a won- derfully rugged constitution and she battled bravely against her sicknes Doctors attending = her believed | week ago that she could live but day longer. Her great vitality | most apparent, however, and she struggled along until 4 o’clock this morning she passed quietly away. W HANGS SELF IN CELL. | Meriden Man Uses Belt to End Life at Police Station. ~Michael a teamster, committed suicide in his cell at the police station today by hanging with his belt. He had been arrested a few hours before and was being held for observation as to his mental condi- tion. He was thi -five ¥ survived by his wife, at a local anitarium, dren. Jan. 28. the city Meriden, employed 1 old, and is | who is a patient and four chil- ago. Plainville was | Selectman John- | | Pirek, NOT CARRY eral Agreemént to S GERMAN FLAG IS TORN DOWN IN SWITZERLAND Federal Council Offers Apol- ogy to Kaiser for Insult to Teuton’s Standard. { | Berne, Switzerland, Via. Paris 28, 1 a. m.—An angry Lausanne, in the.Canton tore down a German flag which had been hoisted by the German consul Jan, | crowd at of Vaud, liam's birthday. The federal coun- cil of Switzerland held an extraordi- nary session at which it was decided to offer apology to Germany for the insult to the flag. Meetings of the state council of Vaud and of the lausanne city council were held for a like purpose. Despite all efforts of the police the flag was torn down in the course of a hostile demonstration by a large | fare with vesterday in honor of Emperor Wil- | 'MERCHANT SHIPS SHOULD ARMAMENT, DECLARES UNITED STAT Asks All European Belligerents to Make quare Their Subma- rine Warfare Methods ! WITH PRINCIPLES OF HUMANITY AND INTERNATIONAL All Powers Notified That Unless Subscribe to Such Principles A Merchantmen Will Be Denied try to American Ports Except Ul Conditions Which Apply to ships. —The UH the Eure Jan all Washington, States in asking | belligerents to make a general a ment to square their submarine ¥ the priciples of hum and internationa] law, has takenm that under changed c@ naval merel | ships should carry no armament | ever. All the powers have been no that unless they subscribe to principles armed merchantmen be denied entry to American except under the conditions wi yapply to warships. ¢ position tions of warfare, in Note. Swch a proposal now in the hi of the belligerent governments * | been transmitted in a note while not in actual language, 18 Proposal crowd. As soon as the news was re- ceived in Berne an extraordinary session of the federal council was held and instructions were issued by it to the chief of the political depart- | ment to call upon the German minis- ter to Switzerland and to express through him to his government the deep regret of the federal council for the incident at Lausanne and the ! Swiss minister in Berlin was instruct- | cd by telegraph to perform a similar | duty to the German foreign office. The council also sent orders to of Lausanne to prosecute the s responsible for the insult to g, which is to be holsted again | ana adequately protected. Deiegations of the state council of | Vaua and of the Lausanne city coun- cil called at the German consulate | in Lausanne and expressed the re- gret of those bodies. | police of Lausanne, on the north skore of Lake Geneva and with pepulation of over 50,000, is situated in what is known as the French- speaking section of Switzerland and it has frequently been asserted that the feeling regarding the war has run high in that district and that, popu- Jar sentiment in favor of the of the allies is intense and spoken. HUNDREDS HOMELESS Thousands of Acres of Land Inundat- The city out- | i ed by Flood in Arkansas—Planning to Aid Sufferers Hun- and Little Rock, Ark., dreds of persons are have asked for of land are lower reaches of Arkansas river Jan. 28.— homeless thousands of inundated ‘n the the White and the Up stream with the Arkansas four de at Mulber- ry, is a volume of water which river- men believe will cause the worst flood in twenty-five years when it pours down stream and into the overflow that is backed up because of high wa- ter in the Mississippi. The board of commerce Rock met today to devise plans for aiding the sufferers near Watson, Ark., where it was reported five hun- dred families, driven from their { homes by high water, were suffering for food and supplies. aid and acres miles v of Little INTO QU | TOWED TOWN. | Allan Line Pomeranian Disabled in | | Terrific Gale. | 1 Queenstown, Jan. 28, 10:10 The Allan Line steamship anian arrived a. m.| Pomer- here yesterday in tow. A despatch from Queenstown on Jan. 25, announced that the Pomer- anian outward bound, from Glas- gow for Canada, had been disabled | in a terrific gale, had lost one . of her propellers and her rudder and was making for Queenstown, es- corted by another v CAROTHERS RECALLEK El Pa Carothers, Tex spec department, will for Washington, having been recalled | by the state department from the Mexican border. According to infor- | mtion here, Carothers will proceed from Washir on Guatemala D, al of the here tonight agent leave state to the | al cause | | no | stantially follows: It is that all’ of the governments | dressed are equally desirious of § tecting their own ssbjects and {zens who are non-combatants |the hazards of submarine wi | Realizing the appalling loss life of non-combatants which res from the destruction of a m | vessel without removing passe |and crews to places of safety, |1s held to be violative of the | ciples of humanity and of inte tional law which should govern | maritime warfare, the United S |at the same time does mot feel |a belligerent should be deprived | the right to use submarines in | of the usefulness which they havel | veloped since the outbreak of present war: Only Trifling Change. That a formula may be | completely within the rules of & ternational law and of hu which will require in its adoption a trifling change in the pra | which have obtained in the past before the war, which formula we be just and fair to all belligerents| is proposed that: Text of Proposal. First—A non-combatant has right to traverse the high seas merchant ship entitled to fly & ligerent flag and rely upon the rd of international law and the ciples of humanity if the vess approached by a bellegerent vessel. Second: 1] A merchant vessel of nationality should not be subject aitack until the belligerent wars} has warned her to stop, Third—Any belligerent owned chant vessel should promptly ol any order from a belligerent wars) to stop. pii Fourth—No such merchant Vi should be fired upon unless she # to flee or to resist by force and & in. such case any attack upon her the warship must stop as soon as f flight or resistance ceases Fifth—Only in case it should impossible for military reasons the warship to supply a prize e or to convoy the merchant ship § rort will' she be justified in sinki such merchantman, and in that ca passengers and crew must be moved to a place of safety. Appreciative of Obstacles. The state department is fully appi of the obstacles which of these rules would ph of the operations of # submarines because of ‘their Before the pre: maritime warfare on the alws has been conducted hattleships or cruisers carrving he guns. It is trye that merchantm were permitted to carry defel armament, but these were light & pared with the warships and did change their nature as merch vessels. This was based on the perior defensive strength of the wal ships and the limitation upon t armaments was for the purpose limiting their power of resistance contact with pirates and privateersy The introduction of the submariy into naval warfare has changed of this. This craft is almost witho powers of defense the abill to submerge to escape an enemy. of light calibre a mercha successfully could ~defend h against a submarine. There are no more pirates, and the practice ciative adoption in the way tural weakness ar beyond Fun on hip been He refused to discuss his mission in that country. privateering has abandoned (Continued On Tenth Page.)