New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS BETTER BUSI [ PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1916. —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED - VERDUN IN FLAMES, 1S GERMAN REPORT Said to Have Been Set on Fire in | Artillery Duel : CZAR AND KAISER GRIP Russian and Teuton Forces on Lastern Front Engage in Combat, Former's | Iarlier Successes Being Offset in Return Chargces. serlin, March via London, 3:35 m.—Verdun is in flames, according to today’s official statement by Ger- man headquarters. The text of the official follows “Western theater: been no actual changes in the situva- jon since yesterday. In the Meuse district artillery duels were especially lively and in the course of thes gagements Verdun was . “Bastern theater: West of Jacob- stadt the Russians again opened an attack P statement There have aftor having brought forward | sh Serbinn troops and after strong | made heavy had been with artiliery preparation The attack broke down sses to the Russians. Minor enemy advances southwest adt southwest of Dvinsk v repulsed. All tho enemy’s even those repeated during the night against our front north of Vidsy, were completely unsuccessful. “Further to the south, in the region of the Narocz Lakes, the enemy yes- terday limited his activity to artillery bombardments “‘Balkan theater: zeroplane attack one enemy machine + was brought down after an aerial bat- tle Letween the enemy lines and our positions. It was there destroyed by artillery.” Berlin, March Via London, March 25, 12:40 p.'m.—Military acti- vity on the northern sector of the castern battle front continues des- pite alternating rain and snow. Russian drum fire was heavy on the night of March 20 and in the carly morning of March 21 between the Narocz and Wiszniew lakes, apd it was particularly heavy just south- ward of Narocz Lake, where the Ger- man line ran from Blisniki to Mokryza and thence westward. The Russians directed their —main attack against this small salient, with a harassing concentric fire ? Germans drew back to their second | line to avoid unnecessary losses. The | Russians, who came forward in heavy | attacking columns, were sanguinarily | repulsed and the Germans followed them to Blisniki and then retired. | The Russians did not follow them the second time. i "he Russians succeeded in captur- some trenches to the south of i Wileity, but they were driven out on the afternoon of March 21 and lost 600 men prisoners. The Russian losses were said have been heavy while the cas of the Germans were declared light to alties to be March 11 a. m, Via March 12:20 p. m.—The Berliner Tageblatt's Macedonian cor- respondent says that French forces from the entrenched camp at Salon- iki have been showing activity in the neighborhood of Gievgeli on the Ser- bian—Greek frontier, where they fired ten shots from heavy guns against German-Austrian pioneers who were repairing bridges. The . hots did no damage. The French also carried out a bombardment in the vicinity of Doiran. A number of have taken place, the correspondent say: Berlin, London London, March 7.32 a m— Newspapers in Petrograd, according to a Reuter despatch from that city, publisn a report that preparations v are being made for the arrival of Emperor William in the near future at Vilna where he is supervising im- portant operations, Detectives from Berlin, it s added, have already reached the city to clear it of sus- picious characters. rdun Situation Unchanged. March 25, 11: French official statement says that the past night was quiet in the Verdun #region both east and west of the Meuse. Artillery duels were in prog- ress in the Woevre region. The text of the statement follow “In the Argonne a surprise attac against the trenches of the enemy at Courtes Chausees resulted in our tak- ing some prisoners and inflicting losses on the enemy. “The the we; Meuse In and to the east of the River ville, ‘“There has been no important de- velopments elsewhere on the front.” DO KILLS EIGHT. Oklahoma City, Okla., March Eight persons were killed in a farm ! house two miles east of Davis, Okla., by a tornado which struck that sec- tion night. The path of the tor nado was eight miles long. TOR? b $100,000 FURNITUR: FIRE. Grand Rapids, Mich., : March Ilire of unknown origin early today | caused a loss estimated at $100,000 to the piant of the Criswell Furniture| ed as a company. i { During a renewed | i about 25, was found suspended from | swamp saw the body. and the | Snowfall. night passed quietly both to | the Woevre district there has | Deen an artillery duel near Moulain- | | Donald, a trimmer MYSTIC SHIPYARDS NOW IN NEW HANDS Keels for Two Four-Masted Vessels to Be Laid, Each 200 Feet in Length, 2 Mystic, March 25.—Formal chase of the MacDonald Shipyards here by Pendleton Brothers of New York and Belfast, Maine, ship brok ers and owners of a fleet of eighty-six uiling vessels was announced today. e transfer is effective at once. The | vard has just completed a two-mated schooner for Pendleton mrothers, and the new owners will start the keel of | four-masted vessels each to be | about 200 feet in length. The craft I‘\\lll be timbered as soon as the lum- | ber arrives. The vessels will replace two which the DPendletons recently sold- g The contracts for lumber for the vessels have been placed with I'red A. Barnes of Old Mystic. The MacDonald Shipyard was the property of Michael MacDonald who died three months ago. The yard was then run by his son Wallace, who died two weeks ago. The surviving pur- | sons are Frank and John. HUNTER FINDS BODY DANGLING FROM TREE Suicide Evidently Hanged Himself at Least Week Ago. Milford, roung March —The body of a man whose age was probably the limb of a broken down tree, in a swamp on the George F. Smith place in Woodmont, today. From the first examination there was nothing in the clothing to establish identification, A fox hunter named Bullard, who was going cross-lots through the Medical Exam- iner Fischer gave a verdict of death by strangulation selft-inflicted. The man had used his shirt for a rope, and after having removed his shirt put on his coat and vest. Then he ‘had crawled out on the tree, affixed the make-shift rope, and dropped off his feet dangling an inch or two above the snow crust. Dr. Fischer thought the body had been there a week. No tracks led to the tree and deati must have occurred before the recent The man’s hat snow cov- ered was on the crust. The texture of the man's clothing was good. He w. clean shaven and apparently not a la- borer. HIP TORPEDOED, AMERICANS DROWN United States Consul at Bristol, Eng- land, Says Cattle Boat Was Sent to Bottom. Washington, March —Consular reports to the state deartment today say the Dominion Line steamer ng- lishman, sunk near the British Isles, was torpedoed and that four Ameri- cans are missing. The Englishman was a horse ship. The missing Americans are Peter McDonald, a horse foreman of 58 Cherry street, Boston; George Mc- of 37 Common streete, Lawrence, Mass.; P. Buckley and M, A, Burke, addresses unknown. The despatches to the . state de- partment were from American Consul Armstrong at Bristol and said the ‘Englishman was torpedoed at an un- known place and time and that thirty-three survivors had been brought into an unnamed British port. The consul also reported that sixty more persons who were aboard the ship were believed by the British au- thorities to have been saved. THE IMMIGRATION BILL, State Department Withdraws Opposi- tion to Clause. Washington, March 25.—The house today continued consideration of the Burnett immigration bill with the lit- eracy test and Asiatic exclusion provi- L cribed as formerly a public s sions again under discussion, The discussion developed the fact that the e department has with- drawn its opposition to a clause em- bodying legislative recognition of the so-called gentlemen’s agreement under which Japan restricts emigration to this country. MYSTERIOLS WAIE CASE WOMAN FOUND Former Public Singer Said to Be | “Mrs. A. D. Walters” ! DENTIST TAKEN T0 BELLEVUE Admits . He Bought Poison But Said | His Father-in-Law Wanted to Com- mit Suicide—Visited by Grief- Stricken Parents. 25.- New York, March Still suffer- ing from the effects of the narecotic drugs Pc began to take when his ¢roublcs overwhelmed hem Arthur less nignt D Warren Waite spent 2 1 uzder ¢'csc guard in the pr ward at Bellevue Hospital. By Monday | the district attorney expects to re- cL'r o om the grand jury an iudicts anent (i rging the youns dantiss with firs: Cezree murder in admimstering | the arcer ic which caused the death of his frilcr-in-taw, Jobhn I Pecl Grand Fepids millionair Mysterious Woman Found. Detectives said today found and identified the woman whom Dr. Arthur Warren Waite son they haad with had and des- and registered at a hotel here as * Mrs. A. W. Walters. ir. She was nger now the wife of an inventor and elec- trical engineer. She said Dr. Waite had fitted up a studio in the hotel so that they could study music and languages there together. Dr. Waite, she said, had often expressed to her his great affection for his father-in law, John E. Peck, of whose murder he is accused. Physicians who conducted the au- topsy on Mr, Peck's body in Crand Rapids are expected here Monday to complete the evidence to be submit- ted to the grand jury Confesses He Bought Arsenic, Dr. Waite confessed yesterday af- ternoon to District Atlorney Swann that he had bought a before the death of I John E. Peck. million: cturer of Grand Rapids, Mich., on | March 9 last. In Dr, ite's apart- ment at the Colesseum, 435 Riverside Drive, Mr. Peck requested him to get the poison, Dr, Waite said, so that he could commit suicide, The young dentist had not murdered his but admitted that he roboration for his stor district attorney that go to the eleetric o Mr. Swann does mnot believe the story, and will proceed with the grand jury investi- gatlon, which he expects to result on Monday in an indictment against Dr. Waite for murder in the first degree. Desire for Mr. Peck’s money will be the motive alleged. Confronted With Reccipt. Dr. Waite made his confession only after he had been confronted with hi own signature signed on a druggist’s senic three days father-in-law re drug manu- swore fath had o and told the expected to that he in-law, cor- receipt for the arsenic which he pur- chased on March 9. Before he had seen this evidence he had denied any knowledge of Mr. Peck's death, swore that he had purchased no poison of any kind, and called all suspicion of him “absurd.” When Mr. Swann showed him the receipt, repeated the rame of a Dr. Muller to whom he went for advice about buying arsenic, offered to produce the druggist who sold the poison, and laid other con- vincing details before the young man, he smiled and said: “Well, I guess [ might as well tell the truth.” His confession then followed. Tries to Bribe Servant. Although Dr. Waite admitted that he had support his story, he attempted late yesterda ternoon, after making his confes to prepare a defense for himself bribing Dora Hiller, the negro vant, formerly employed in his apart- ment, to testify that she knew of Mr, Teck’s desire to commit suicide, ac- cording to District Attorney Swann. . IMr. Swann said that Dr. Waite had given Liaymond C. Schindler, the pri- vate detective employed by the dead man’s son, a check for $1,000 made te the order of the servant, Mr. Schindler reported the doctor’s bribe to the district attorney. D». Waite was forbidden today to recelve visitors with two exceptions. These were his aged parents who came here from Grand Rapids last vight. The young dentist was re- ported to be in a much improved con- cition today, no evidence to London, March 25, 1:50 p. m.—A (GGerman raider has been sunk in the North Sea. Five German officers and 115 men, out of a total of 300, were The British lost 74 men The British armed merchantman Alcantara, which sunk the German raider the Greif, was herself sunk. The following official statement wis jssued: An engagement occurred on Peh. 29 in the North Sea between the armed German raider Greif, disguis- Norwegian merchant vessei, and the British armed merchant crui- captured. VICTOR AND VANOUISHIiD SINK IN BATTLE IN THE NORTH SEA Alcantara, Capt. T. E. Wu resulted in the loss of both vesse the German raider being sunk by gunfire and the Alcantara apparently by a torpedo. The Brit of five office: s were made men. e liner belonws Steam Pac ke She had been n British government Aleantara w ing to the Roy company of Be the service of the ast, for some time. Her gross tonnage 5,300, She was 570 feet long built in Glasgow in 1913, and was WOMAN NEARING 70 SEEKS FRANCHISE Is An Ardent Suffragist and Member of the Sunshine Society—107 Women Voters Here, Among the 817 prospective voters enrolled by the registrars, four women are included and this quartet of fair sex nearing the three score year mark. She is Mrs. Mary F. Crowell of 47 Walnut street; an ardent fragist and a member of the local Sunshine society. She and Murs, Iliza ¥. Cadwell of 45 Hawkins street, who is also seeking the franchise, are deeply interested in school and welfare work. The-other women applicants for the franchise are the Misses Mary and Bertha Inga Peter- | son of 15 Pearl court. While the suffragi movement Hartford, where over 500 women have just been made voters, is much stronger than in this city, the list of women voters here now totals 107 divided by wards as follows: Ki ward, 8; second ward, 18; third ward, 49; fourth ward, 18; fifth ward, and th ward, 7. In this state women to vote on matters pertaining schools only, but that those now pes- sessing or seeking the franchise are thoroughly in earnest and intend to keep hammering at the issue of full suffrage is perhaps in no way better attested than by the applications of such women as Mrs. Cadwell and Mrs. Crowell. IMPORTED LABOR FOR TEXTILE MILL, CHARGED Bridgeport Concern Is Sued for $20,000 By District Attorney Spellacy. wre permitted to the Hartford, March Charging vio- lation of the alien contract labor law in twenty instances the United States government has through District At- torney Thomas J, Spell brought suit for $20,000 damages in a civil action against the Salts Textile Manu- retur Company of Bridgeport, and i tachment of 5,000 na been made on the company’s propert: The bill of complaint says in sub- stance that the company imported from France in the early part of 1914 twenty weavers and loom fixers. engaged for work in the compan weaving mills at Bridgeport s made to them by on pany's foremen who went and there talked with and women were employed leged. The dates and the steamers on which they were brought to this country are mentioned in the com- plaint. the to them. it is al- prom- or com- BURGLARS ESCAPE, BANK ALARM FAILS But Their Booty Did Not Amount to Postage Stamp Says Treas- urer Herman Hess. Meriden, March 25.—Burglars who got into the Meriden National bank during last night did not get as much as a postage stamp in value, accord- ing to President Herman Hess of the institution today. Entrance was through a dow in which the glass had been broken and the latch turned. The in- truders ransacked the drawers in desks and opened the outer door to the big safe. The fact that this door was opened should have led to an alarm over the electric wires to the police station, but the system appar- ently did not work. No attempt was made to tamper with the inner door of the vault REPUBLICANS CONFER rear win- Want More Troops for Mexico—Am- munition for Carranza Is Held Up at New York. Uncasy over the situation on the Mexican border, senate republicans today held a conference with a view to determining upon a plan to ask f more troops to protect the border. The conference adjourned until Mon- day without action. FElesio Arredondo, general Carran- za’'s ambassador, protested to Secre- tary Lansing today that ammunition for Carranza, consigned on a ship leaving New York vesterday, was held up by the customs nuthorities. Secretary Lansing told the ambassa dor there was no intention to hold up ammunition for Carranza and that the delay was caused by a preliminary ex amination to assure the governme that the shipment would not reach his enemies. It will be allowed to go for- ward. —— e WEATHER. Uariford, March Hartford and vicinit night. Sunday clondiness, probably night, e ~1or e o= increasing rain by the | s represented by one who is | and ten | suf- | matters | in | AMERICANS ABOARD STEAMER IN PERIL Daughter of Wealthy U. §. Citizen Has Her Leg Broken TORPEDO, PARIS REPORTS Peaceful Passenger. Vessel. Damaged By Explosion in English Channel— Watertight Compartments Kept Her | l Afloat Until Assistance Arrived. London, March 2 m.—The cross-channel 510211 steamer Sussex, which | Wwas seriously damaged yesterday after- the coast, towed into Boulogne early today, ac- cording to a despatch to the Central News. Information received at Dover states that it is now regarded as certain that some lives were lost on the vessel, probably by the explosion which caused the damage. A few of the res- cued passengers are being brought to Dover, but the majority of those who were taken off the steamer by the res- cunng vessels will be landed in France. The London, Brighton and Coast Railway company officia that the passenger list of the shows that there were twenty- Americans aboard. American Woman Injured. Miss Baldwin, daughter of a prom- inent American resident of Parls, was injured seriously on the Sussex. Miss Baldwin's father and mother also were on board the vessel. All have been taken to Boulogne. In addition to other injuries, Miss Baldwin's leg was broken. Miss Alice Ruiz of Colorado, and Wilder G. Penfield of Merton College, Oxtord, are other Americans who were saved. Edward Huxley, president of the United States Rubber Export Co., and Francis E. Drake, European manager of the company, are among the Am- ericans rescued from the Sussex, They report that there was a h loss of life, including probably several Amer- icans. According to official information from the admiralty this morning, be- | tween ninety and 100 passengers of the Sussex have been landed at Dover and about 250 passengers and mem- bers of the crew in France 1 t night's 1itches said | were 386 pussen on the | and a crew or about fifty, ind that seventy-five or more the Sussex have not been | for. | The chief was killed purser w noon near French was | there Sussex des ers ating persons on accounted Sus and engineer of the by the explosion wounded serious x the American Ts Missing, An whose known to survivors who have London was talking with the Baldwin family. to the captains bridge, when the explosion occurred. He has not been seen since thut time and is supposed to have been lost. The explosion occurred at about 3 American name is not reached close VILLA SLIPS THROUGH RIN AND IS REPORTED FLEEI GEN. PERSHING STILL With Wireless Again in Working Orde lence of Desert Stretch Between Tro and U. S. May Be Broken AUTHORITIES SILENT ON REASONS FOR CALLING CREWS UNDER ARREST PENDING WRECK PROBE Flagman Killed plained Freight Crash " at Canaan Today. in Unex- ‘anaan, March collision the C Shoemaker, a crrushed early freight that in anaan yard B. was of trains today flagman, he died twen out of the wreckage. quiry by Coroner Herman of Winsted, the crews of both trains involved were held up. The regular freight, west bound, No. 195, over the Central New England road had stopped in the freight yards at a. m. and had been cut in two while the engine with the for- ward section went ahead to the water tank. An extra freight which was following crashed into the section which had been left standing. It is said that the engineer extra coming down the grade T Norfolk was unable to hold his train quick enough after seeing that freight section was standing on tae Iline ahead of him. The extra's engine crushed the caboose of the regular and threw it down the bank. The wood- work took fire, Shooemaker was in this car and he crawled out of the wreckage, was picked up by the otaer men and taken to the station where he died. His watch had stopped at 5 Dr. ¢. W. Camp, the medical examiner, viewed the body. An empty car next to the ca- boose was derailed Other damage to rolling stock was trivial, G. so0 badly ¢ minutes after crawling Pending an in- of the from coal OUT EL PASO TRE Infantry Ordered to Presid and Del Rio, Texas, on O of Residents to General Two Former Villa Officers S Are Thought He Jail and New Orleans, 2 £l Texas, March 2§ > Paso, Villa fleeing west in the Sa successtully the ring that was being draw) him by American and troops. News of the outlawh westward was brought here f Valle, but could not be confl Fort Bliss or in Mexican offig§ cles. cisec was reported ea to be country, having a Wireless Works Again. San Antonio, Tex March® With the wireless working saf ily for almost the first time sin have been in Gen, Funston today is awaitin spatches from Gen, Pershing f firm reports that United Stats have engaged Villa forces nei iquipa. In messages re field headquarters at Casas @ two of the American advane umns were reported to be in cinity of Namiquipa but no was made of an engagemenit, The reported killing of three ns hear Gibson's ranch fifteen west of Columbus, presumat Mexican bandits, was recelved deep concern at department quarters today. No explanation was offered report from El Paso that two ies of the Seventh Infantry wa duty at police headquarters lagt In answer to protests from i at Presidio, Marfa and Del Rio, for more protection, Major Gen, erican troops Shooemaker's age was thirty-fiv and he belonged in Poughkeepsie, where he leaves his wife and two children. \ Train No. 195 was in charge of Con- ductor Darwin Wood and Engineer G. Bova of Hartford. Extra No. 112 had two engines and was in charge of Conductor Nathan Blodgett of Hartford and Engineers ‘William Shove and Ralph Burr of Maybrook, N, Y The last named for- merly lived in Norfolk, The collision occurred in the near the Catholic church crossing. rd p. m., when the Sussex was an thour and a half out of Folkestone, The wireles apparatus was destroyed and no help arrived until nearly midnight. Had it not been for her watertight compartments the Sussex would have sunk, and the loss of life would have been heavier. A number of Americans cross the channel by almost every passenger steamer, most of them on business. Bookings are not made in advance for particular steamers. Passengers hav- ing passports entrain London and their names are taken when they go aboard steamers. A large number of Americans obtained permits to go to France during the last week and it is a virtual certainty that a number of them were on the Sussex. Mine or Torpedo. Opinion of passengers of the Sussex to whether was damaged by a mine or a torpedo. The explosion occurred just ahead of the captain’s bridge and tore the front part of the steamer to pieces killing or injuring a number of per Many were wounded severel) flying splinters The admiralty states that 0 sur- vivors have been landed in rance and between 90 and 100 at Dover, As there were 386 passengers and about 50 men in the crew, 75 or more per- SONS are ill mi. Ng. The Sussex carried 12 life-boat and several rafts. The life boats wer is divided as the vessel sons. Ly l (Continued On Ninth Page.) ZEPPELIN DRIVEN OFF Attempt to Make Another Raid Saloniki Proves a Fallure, French Being Alert. on Saloniki, March 24, Via. Paris, March 25, 11:30. a. m.—An attempt at another Zeppelin raid over Saloniki was made last night. The Zeppelin did not reach the city, however, being kept beyond the French lines. A French biplane whose observer a Greek volunteer, Albert Miss- vachi, a native of Saloniki, ‘was shot down at a height of 8,000 feet, falling into Lake Doiran, AURORA NOT IN DISTRESS. Shackleton Antartic Ship Does Not Need Assistance, London, March ports received the auxiliary of Shackleton Antartic expedition, which was damaged in the ice and is now proceeding to New Zealand for re- pairs, is not in distress or in need of assistance. A New Zes in communica 1:20 p. m.—Re- here today state that ¢hip Aurora the nd wireless ation is | fon with the Aurora Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antartic explorer, expre the opinion that there is no cause for undue alarm. es ‘Washington, March 25—Convinced |1 that powerful influences are at work Mexico | i« rming | | intervention the rumors, administration wero considering just what steps s taken bring the agitation end Following it the subject at meeting, Secretary a formal statenent | ed today. President l!n be determined to to force in through spreading of a officials today | ¢ 1 | be to an |1 thorough vesterday Lansing which v Wilson stop ussion of cabinet prepuced | w is the circu- ADMINISTRATION HOT ON TRAIL OF RIOT AND ARSON SHOUTERS and The use or the law against warning against ton today annouhced that a of the Twenty-fourth Infantpy, on the way here from Fort D, A, sell, will be stationed in that di Villa Officers Escape, Manuel Medinabietis Gen. Manuel Banda, two forme la officers, who were taken into tody here a few days ago, have peared from the El Paso jail ani understood to be on their way to! Orleans. General Insist Villa is Surrounded, Paso, March that Francisco l —The reite! claim Villa was rounded, made at Mexico City ea day in a message received tliere Gen. Luis Gutierrez, Carranza's mander in chief, only served to the situation in the field more pu: from the viewpoint of the borde: cording to the telegrams from Bertani, made public here by Cf Garcla, the American columns co-operating with the Carranza fy and formed part of the circle around the bandit chief. Gel Gutierrez, however, made no ence to Gen, Pershing’s troops, The most curious feature of whole situation, the question Gen,: Pershing made no report of battles said to have been foughf] mained unsolved. While the stol the surrounding of Villa and h lowers might be dismissed as pri ture it is known American coll have penetrated the territory w) the Villa bands are operating and is eagerly awaited from Gen, Pe ing of the first class between the dits and the troops of the Un States. Where Is Herrera? which operations ard The veil of mystery dropped over the rivalled the Gen, Luis Herrera had turned arms against the de facto govern The latest news to be brought from Chihuahua came with the val of Charles R. Yeats, an Amel mining man who reached here fi Chihuahua City an early morg train, Yeats said that Herrera not in the Mexican state capital wi he left and that that city appe Namiquipa was by the tinued insistence of reports of the take legal ation to inflammatory it ne rumors ssary the publi sation of reports tending to ‘arson and riot,” tightening sensorship on Mexican news u army officers on the bord giving out unconfirmed 1 under consideration n officials Officials settled down tods that Villa and his out eptured or killed by the 11 forces reported 1o he him. steps ineit of the r orts are tdministrs Y to await vord I int closing yoen ior out | abouts | | ico | | Mexico, as much in the dark as to his why and intentions as El Paso, have lived twenty years in he said, “and I never felt from one ddy to another w leader stood. They all § vidualists and pay little attention ny central authorit It posi! that Herrera was bitterly opposed the entry American i Mexico and openly Carrag of helr false to the 1 honoy but has actual 1 tain Ny an is of troops accused nation hether he revolt 1 that ahua gone cannot say there and a unrest in Chih ri (« m Ninth ontinued (