New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEA BETTER BUSINES] PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1916 —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED ‘YAST AREA TIED UP BY "*Not a Wheel Turning on Shore Line Electric Rail- way and Thousands of Workmen Are Either Ab- sent from or Late for Em- ployment. COMPANY ISSUES AN ULTIMATUM TO MEN % Announcs It Will Have Substitutes | for Their Jobs Unless They Report | | expressed the belief in Twenty-four Hours—Almost Every Auto in ILarge Territory Pressed Into Service for Passengers and Freight. the | Norwich, June 1.—Traffic fhore Line Electric Railway between New Haven and Westerly, R. I., and New London and West Thampson | was at a standstill today as a result of the strike at midnight of the mo- on | tormen, conductors, power house and | M car barn employes on the lines. The walkout affected between 600 and 700 men following the failure of the | men and company to reach an agree- | ment on a new wage scale demanded by the men. The old agreement ex- pired at midnight and the new scale asked for by the men provided for a maximum of thirty-five cents an | hour after three years’ service. The | company offered a compromise of a | thirty-two cent maximum, situation dead-locked. President R. W. Perkins of the company today posted a notice in- forming the strikers that unless they returned to work within twenty-four hours they could consider themselves no longer in the company’s emplos and new men would be brought in to take the places of the striking powerhouse men and that the plant was in operation. No disturbances of any kind have been reported. Drivers of licensed motor vehicles did.a thriving busi- ness today in this and other cities and towns affected by the strike. re and the | s meetings of the trolleymen were held here and at various other points on the line beginning early today, at which the international vice president, P. J. O'Brien, of Spring- field, Mass,, was present. President Christianson of the local union of the trolleymen today denied | President R. W. Perkins' statement | that the company had never been afficially notified of the trolleymen's rejection of the company’s compro- mise offer. He said that some time 2g0 he informed General Manager Samuel Anderson of the company that the offer was refused by the men. President Perkins today brought in three automobile loads of men into the city during the marning. Nineteen private detectives also ar- rived in town. Mill Employes Tate. Mystic, June 1.—The strike on the Groton and Stonington line of the Shore Line Electric Railway today rlayed havoc with the attendance at the various mills in this section, many cmployes, who live well out into the country, getting in hours late far work. Automobiles, farm wagons, grocery wagons and any available vehicles were used to get them to work. The High school in Stoning- ton borough had a scant attendance at the opening, as many of the pupils who live in Mystic, Old Mystic and Pawtucket were very late or unable to get there at all. Every Auto in District Used. Plainfield, June 1.—Hundreds of mill emplayes at Moosup, Central Village, Wauregan and Jewett City were compelled to depend upon auto- | mobiles and other conveyances to get to work today, as a result of the trol- ley car strike. Every automobile in the district, almost was in use and doing a rushing business. One truck brought load of fifty to Plain- fleld a Baltic Mills' Hit Hard, Baltic, June 1.—Mill employes in Baltic, Occum, Taftville, Versailles £nd Greenville, were greatly handi- capped in getting to their work to- day because of the tie-up of the trol- ley lines by the strike. Mails and Milk by Auto. Danielson, June 1.—Not a wheel vas moving on the Danielson division of the Shore line Electric railway to- day between West Thompson and Central Village and between Daniel- son and East Killingly, where the cars run over the Old and Danielson line, as a result of the strike began at midnight The thirty men employed on the [ on struck. The mails, which or- dinarily are delivered by the Shore Line men to the Rhode Tsland com- pany at East Killingly, are being transported by the company from (Continued on Tenth Page.) | Hilles, | cont, | developed, | pilation, were Providence | STRIKERS I FORTY CONTESTS FOR | SEATS AT CONVENTIO [ i o Republican National Committec Opens 1 | Hearings on Disagreements Affect- | ing Sixty-two Delegates. | | Chicago, June 1—The i 1 committee Coliseum for republican here today of deciding forty contests, involving the right of sixty-two dele- zates to seats in the national con- vention next Wednesda The committee, which was called order by Chairman Charles D. made plans to devote three to hearing arguments of the tants, though several members that not more than two days would be required in disposing of the contests. Four years ago the national committee held ses national met at the the purpose hearing and to days | sions over a period of more than three weeks in order to hear the several hundred contests and much bitterness but today there is com- | paratively little interest manifested {over the outcome, as the result prob- | ably will not seriously affect the fortunes of any presidential candi- date. GASOLENE JUGGERNAUT Twenty-one of Conmecticut’s Violent Deaths in May Duc to Automobile Accidents, Unofficial Report Shows. New Haven, June 1—Twenty-one of the total ninety-six violent deaths in Connecticut during the month of May, according to an unofficial com- due to automobiles. The total number of accidental deaths was 71 as compared with 59 in April, homicides seven as against three in April and suicides eighteen as against 25 in April. Sixteen persons were drowned, eleven died of burns, eight on the railroad and the remainder from a variety of causes. BURNS APPEARS AT WIRE TAPPING PROBE Detective, Through Lawyer, Says He Is Glad of Opportunity to Speak. New York, June 1.—William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective Agency, took the witness stand today at the resumption of the John Doe in- quiry into the tapping of the tele- phone wires of the munitions and law firm of Seymour & Sevmour and the installation of a listening device in the firm’s office at the belhest of J. P, Morgan & Co. Before beginning his testimony, Burns was told by Dislrict Attorney Swann that his appearaice could not be allowed to constitute a waiver of immunity James M. Beck, the de- tective’s attorney, said his client had no objection to this procedure and in fact sought the opportunity of testi- fying. WILL SLIGHT CHICAGO. Roosevelt Positively Declares He Will Not Go There, Pittsburgh, Pa., Roosevelt changed cars here today while on h way from St. Louis to New York, and when questioned as to whether he would go to Chicago dur- ing the republican national conven- tion replied derisively: “I will not go to Chicago.” He was met at the sta- tion by a number of progressive party leader: WOMEN ACCUSE LYMAN They Gave Him Securities to Sell June Col. or Hold for Loans and Never Re- covered Them. New York, June 1.—Women said they placed securities they owned in the hands of John Grant Lyman either to sell or to hold as col* lateral for loans to make purchases of stock of the California Oil com- pany or the Ohio Oil company, test fied in Lyman’s trial today that they did not recover their stoc Lyman, who operated as a stock broker un- der the name of John H. Putman and company, is charged with using the mails to defraud customers. | M Susan B. Bisbee of Brooklyn | and Mrs. Sarah B. Knowles, of Penn- | sylvania, testified that they deposited | stock with Lyman with orders to buy Ohio and that he never returned it. It is charged that he did not buy the stock ordered by his customers. RE-ELECTION, 1.—The first LODGE ¢ Boston, June step in Senator Henry Cabot campaign for re-election today when nomination papers were obtained in his behalf. The election next fall will be by direct vote for the first time in this state. formal Lodge's was taken 1 } to her who | for { when | this WAITE SENTENCED T0 DIE, MAKES SPEECH Thanks Judge, Prosecutor and Own Counsel for Its Fairness PENALTY WEEK OF JULY {0 Motion for New Trial by Convicted Man’s Lawyers Is Denied—Prisoner Expresses Great Sorrow for Crime and Hopes to Expiate Offcnse, New York, June 1.—Dr. Arthur ‘Warren Walite was today sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week of July 10, the penalty for the murder of his father-in-law, John E. Peck, of which he was con- victed. A motion by Dr, for a new trial Waite Makes Speech. When Justice Shearn concluded the sentence, Waite delivered a short speech in which he expressed ap- preciation of the manner in which his trial was conducted-and his thanks to the court, the prosecutors and to his own attorney. Dr. Waite d he was very sorry for his crimes and for the trouble and suffering he had caused others. He declared that he hoped that by surrendering his body for punishment, he would compensate in me small degree for the deaths of his victims, Waite’s counsel was denied. REPORTS GIRL'S DEATH, IS HELD FOR MURDER Conflicting Stories Told By Youth Held By Provi- dence Police. Providence, T 1.—James O’Brien, who first reported the shoot- ing of Beatrice Walter, worked in ., June girl who with him, a a jewelry shop father early this morning was held by the police today answer for her death Chief tor O’Neil that has been to Inspe O’Brien, announced who detained by the police would be arraigned charge of murder. said, was expected thorities in their Y Walter was William H. Walter, spector of boilers. When O’'Brien went to the girl's father he a the shooting took place in a vacant lot near her home. To the police later he is said to have claimed that a revolver fell from the girl’'s hand and that she was dentally shot. A subsequent story attributed to O’'Brien by the police, was that the young woman had shot hersell after saying several times: “It would be ce for us to die together,” and that he then attemped suicide. O Brien was said to have explained that the bullet struck a belt buckle and a Tutton. He fired other shats in the air afterward to attract help, ac- cording to the story. A revolver was found Thody. Physicians said had been dead two or O’Brien reported tomc An to ow on autapsy, ssist the investigation, the daughter municipal a he au- of in- a near the Miss Walter three hours the shooting. GIRCUS WAITERS STRIKE Insist T Three Meals to Hungry Canvas Hands Is an Out- rage and Quit the Show. u. are not immune from labor troubles this year and to demonstrate this fact a score of waiters in the cook house of the Cook and Wilson's Animal shows quit morning after tendering an ul- timatum to the management that hereafter the canw: hands would have to be centent with two meals a day. According to orders they have been serving three meals, but the Wwaiters decided that the roustabouts ate anough at two meals to provide the inner wants of an ordinary mortal, thus reasoning, decided that three meals was just one too man ‘The! proprietor of the show through long experience deemed that a canvasman only human and needs something besides circus saw- Gust to kecp the body and soul to- gether. He declared breakfast din- ner and supper in order and causally remarked that if the waiters could not see the wisdom of this con- clusion they were welcome to try their hand at some other form of oc- cupation. The show would go on, he said, and the canvas hands would three squares long as they e a tent. have could as rais COMPENSATION on, June l.—President told Representative Me- Maine he favored his il compensating federal em- ployes injured service, and would like to have it passed for a model for state laws. The bill had been favor- ably reported by the judiciary mittee. PAVORS Washir Wilson today Gillicuddy BILL. of tor in com- GERMANS REPULSED INNIGHT ASSAULY ON DEAD MAN HILL Berlin Admits French Succeeded | in Securing Footing in Delend- ers’ First Line Trenches BEATEN OFF AT OTHER POINTS WITH HEAVY LOSS | Tntense Artillery Duel in Progress on East and West Fronts at | Pouau- | | mont—French Aviators Throw Bombs on Railroad Stations and Commissary Headquarters at Azan- | nes is Shelled. Parts, June 1, 11:50 m.—The mans were completely repulsed in a. Ge an attack delivered upon the French | positions at Dead Man Hill. about § night, according to an official statement issued by the French war office today. ment | mature i o'clock last A violent bombard- | continued in this region | throughout the night. tillery duel east and An intense ar- | is in progress on the west fronts at Douaumont. The text of the statement follows: “On the left bank of the river Meuse the hombardment continued with great violence last night in all the territory around Dead Man Hill. A | determined German attack delivered yesterday evening at 8 o’clock against our positions upon the eastern slopes of the hill were completely repulsed | by our fire. “On the right bank of the river the artillery fighting has become ex- ceedingly intense to the west and also to the east of Fort Douaumont. “The night passed in relative quiet along the remainder of the front. “During the night of May 31-June 1 a French air squadron threw down twenty shells on the railroad stations at Thionville, Audun, and LeRoman, and fifty other shells upon the com- | missary headquarters of the enemy | at Azanne Germans Admit Loss. Berlin, June 1, via London, 4:51 D. m.—In an attack on German posi- tions southeast of Dead Man Hill, on the Verun front, the French obtained a foothold in the German first line trenches over an extent of 400 metres the war office announced today. The French made repeated ults on the German lines but, other than at the point mentioned, were beaten off with extremely heavy losses. Greatest Effort of Germans. 9 T a. m.—More aching here from Verdun show that the battle which raged from May to May and which ended, according to a ment of the French war office, costly check for the Germans, was the greatest effort made by the Teu- tonic forces in the whole Verdun op- erations. More and heavier guns and denser masses of troops were as- sembled along the three miles .of the rench front from FHill 304 to the Meuse than in any previous attack. The French stood firm under an avalanche of shot and shell and drove back wave after wave of a flood of Teutonic infantry. They only surrendered ahout one hundred yards of ground at Little Caurettes Wood, where a trench had been obliterated by the terrific fire of the German big guns According to information given by | prisoners the German for consist - ed of two fresh brigades with three companies of pioneers. The mission | of the latter troops was to work around Cumiergs and reach the Chat- tancourt village by the road running parallel to the railroad. In the mean- time, two other regiments were or- | dered to creep along the bank of the river and seize the Chattancourt rail- road station to the west of the vil- | age. Another hrigade was instructed to storm the woods and hedge rows which border Chattancourt to the ! west, while other detachments, act- ing still further to the west, were o support the attack. TIn the oplinion of French military critics the result was not only a failure for the Ger- mans but a success for the French | such as they have rarely attained. Germans Suffer Heavily. The Germans suffered heavily that they ceased further attacks, while the French by a prompt counter | attack, reestablished themselves again south of Cumieres and won an im- | portant point of vantage on the south- western slope of Dead Man’s hill. It develops that during yesterday’ battle west of the Meuse the Germans | back the French line between Man Hill and Cumieres for a | of three-quarters of a mile. Pa June complete account 0 in s0 sent Dead distance a (Continued On Elevciih Puge). R N N N N WEATHER. Hartford, Hartford and continued cool, Friday. \ N June vicinity: tonight 1.—Tor Fai and A NONENTITY, BAKER | democratic party | eram | would | States away from partic: | Creat | position | seems to offer state- | 4l | leader, | the amazement of the faithful the du- | length of time men REPUBLICAN PARTY Wandering Aimlessly With No? Cause and No Opinion RECORD OF DEMOGRATS | Tederal Reserve Act, TarifY tion and Europcan and Mexican Policy Indications of What Ad- ministration Has Donce for Country. Columbus, O., Secretary of War An June 1 Baker, address as | of the convention here today, n an democratic declared the | aggregation of and compared it with the chairm Ohio republican factions party is “an of agreeing upon no set principles he said, had definite pro- which, carried out a wise and in economic national | The to measures. preparedness and foreign policy. party will be continued in vower pragram, he predicted. | Referring briefly to polities in Ohio, | his home stete, the secreta ex- | pressed the hope that the present re- | publican administration “character- | ized by feebleness and uncertainty” | be replaced by the dnmn-} crats next year and that special at- | tention would be given to relieving | the financial stringency of Ohio cities. | Secretary Baker praised President | Wilsan for pressing enactment of the federal reserve and rural credits | systems, tariff reduction, for uphold- | American ideals in dealing with | and for steering the United | pation in the Puropean’ war. He expressed satis- | faction that the preparedness pro- | gram had been moderate. ing Mexiep, Republican Today a Nonentity. | Attacking the republican party, | Sceretary Baker said: | To speak of a man as a republi- | can today identifies him with no | cause, ibes to him no opinion; Aa whether it affiliates him with progressives or reactionaries or both cannot be told until after the national ‘ convention in Chicago next week.”” | He declared that Senator Harding of Ohio, who will pr at the re- iblican convention, one ction which believes tariit shauld be the issue in campaign, while other tavor an attack on the foreign poli of the present administration. Op- position camps divided into those who believe the administration has been tao bellicose and those who fear i~ has been too peace-loving, he said. “Then there is a third group,” the .ccretary continued, “headed by the Detractor, who, shifting from | ta position on the nation’s policy selects at each time whatever vantage point an opportunity for | difficult the position of the | president and congress. | In other words, what used to be | {he strong, coherent, logical organiza- | tion known as the republican party, | is naw, so far as its leaders are con- cerned, an aggregation of factions, agreeing on no set of principles, ad- " vocating no national policy, the only common bond of union being willing- ness to pool issues to win. And this | party is about the meet in convention at Chicago to select whatever candi- | date looks best at the last mament and whatever principle promise to | weather the storm until November. | “In contrast to this, the democratic | | a | de | represents the the 4 republicans comi foreign apparently making | party, having lived through years of doubt and hesitation, with \'(\n(r.xl‘ Philosophy sometimes more a yearn- | ng than a program, now presents a | matured policy, evolved by a gre: by his o oG ATty on of their welcow | ciates as the real expre | political ideals.” | Foderal Reserve Act Great Victory. | Secretary Baker declared the | federal reserve act, by steadying busi- | during the trying | c | ress and commer period of the Turopean “would afford a record | and wisdom upon which the party | could confidently appeal to the | countr) It has eliminated the power of & few financiers to cause a i panic, he stated. The rural credits | legislation “is the first comprechen- ive recognition by the nation of the 1.eeds and rights of those who till the soil as the foundation of our entire fructure,” the secre- war, alone far courage ccanom said tary. Commenting duction of tariff, Mr. the democratic Baker said on re- “ro ties have gone down but the dinner pail is not only empty but full to over- flowing. The high protective duty l\:lx“ >d to the hall of fame, where it ced with Doctor Cook and Cag- venerable only because of the rendered homagi for virtues which it did not posses Mr. Baker declared that interven- in Mexico had been urged by American owners of Mexican mines, some Ame n proprietors of Mexican concessions some Americans who looked with ¢ on | Mexico Naboth's vineyard | der disorders have been unfortunate, he explained but the only alternative was “war upon these people, who have willed no act of agsression invade their country, and to spend in the occupation of foreign 1 in toilsome effort, expensive pass is p liostro, ‘some ic longing es i Bor- on us, to year soil, (Continued On Tenth Page). I :GEN | Describes Value of Preparcdness and | members of the fa |in | ana Senate t ' | before adjournment ORDER TROOPS WATCH CAR . WOOD TALKS TO WESLEYAN MEN Urges Students 1o Attend Platts- | | burg Training Camp, | 1.—Major Gener- today ty students upc Middletown, June al Leonard O. Wood the Weslevan Univers the general subject of with more particular need of military training in the ed States. General Wood came train and automobile from Go and, and after his address left for | New Haven to speak i Woolsey Hall | to Yale undergraduates upon the same ddress Unit- | by ernor’s c | The Wesleyan classes were Ais- missed at 11 o'clock in order that all, with the members of the facnlty might gather on the main floor of | Fayerweather Gymnasium to hear the | nnouncement also wi ‘H.Uh“ by President Shanklin that he had | secured approval of both the faculty | and the trustees of the plan to cre udents for work in military at Wesleyan in conjunction with tendance at a summe miltary camp. General Wood in his talk, reviewed the military history of the nation, il- lustrating from the Revolution, the | war of 1812, and the Civil war, the “ost of unpreparedness. He urged the alue of the Plattsburgh camp for col- lege men Gov. Holcomb was present and in brief speech endorsed Gen. Wood's re- marks on ‘“‘preparedness.” Tn addition to the students and the rulty practic: the was hand seienc zovernment to hear Gen. Wood It was said today that about half of the colleze bhedy would take part in the “preparedn parade at Hartford, Saturdaj entire city President Will Lead Preparedness Parade on Foot in Washington and | ‘Will Then Address Marchers. Washington, June 1. Wilson, marching on foot, the preparedness parade June 14. Afterward he will re- the procession and deliver a to the marchers. When a local committee asked the ident today to review the parade, he replied enthusiastically that he not only wouid review it, but would march it. The president also promised that if possible he would give permis- sion to all government employes in Washington to march. He said he would start with the procession at the beginning, march to the reviewing stand, and then drop out for the re- view. Members of the president’s other officials probably march with the president, who feels that by marching himself he will most emphatically show his personal inte cst in the demonstration. will lead here Flag cabinet xpected to Confirm 1lim As Associate Justice of Supreme Court Today. Washington, June 1.—Senate advo- cates and opponents of conflrmation of Louis D. Brandeis as a member of the supreme court were lined up to- day for a final vote on the nomination for the day The majority report of the judiciary committee recommended that nom ination be confirmed. An executive session of the senate was ordered for presentation of this and also a mi nority report opposing confirmation. Both reports will be made public aft- er the final vote. Confirmation of Mr. Brandeis vir- tually was assured. Even his oppon- ents have conceded this. TROOPS FIRE O Twenty Killed or Wounded in Uprising In C Willemstad, Cur May 31.—Twenty persons were or wounded in an outbreak at caibo, Venezuela, against Gen. Garcia who has been appointed president of the State of Zulia, succeeding tempor- ary President Aranguren. Troops fired on citizens who tried to prevent Gen. Garcia lz »m the steamer Merida which had taken him to Ma MOB. (a0, Wednesds killed | Mara- | a0, nding f aibo it | Wilson and Secret | took up consideration | from Mexico and char | ey President | will | ILSON DEFIANT. WILL NOT HOME; U 5. RANZA S0LDI o Fear Expressed fo ety of Pershing’s C But Funston Will Take Any Chanceg cause of Threatening] in Latest Note. rotorones e e \ MEXICO MUST SH COMPLETE CON President Determined to Allow to Remain on Other Side Grande Until De Facto ment Is A to Demonstd Ability to Handle Situatiox satisfaction, Washington, nsir of Gen za's latest note. . The docum tained the threat of armed r | unless American troops are wi d incd on the part of the United in protesting friendship for while maintaining within he an armed force which Carra sider The the unnecessary yuntry’s action or re note outlin} will not, be until officials have hac t 000 words. mally carefully wh 12 | Administration held General study e text, tains about leaders wit| | ception the | that opinion, Pershin | would not be withdrawn | from Off harsh im Mexico. belief Carranza's c| ials expressed terms of cation were intended primard | fluence public opinion in his o They Eliseo try. of ba pointed to the ex Arredondo, Mexid] dor, when he presented | that it was not to be consider timatum. It was suggested that Carrs mand for a concrete stateme the United States of its inter garding Mexico, paricularly nection with the time of futyl tenance of troops south of s similar to Gen. Obre} t the border conferer Scott and Funston. American authorities de| ite promise conce; withdrawal No Withdray authoritatiy | time of Positively It that American was stated troops will withdrawn (e! control from DMexico u rranza authorities den of the situation suflic] the Lo that protect American reply to cffect pro made to Cs W ready to rranz ilson represented te thdraw the troo possible, but det the forees ned to W Carran can cot situation Steps were taken by the pa ent today 1c definite information ition hua as of the Carranza tr it was satd that prov of ( Dz note P action of milita a gard to the situation Gen outline h cent anxiety i Pershing's cc the statements lum Ca as in ¢ is desired to know as accu possible w the maqvemen torce are Real Mission of Defen: at the partment that the real missio expedition at this time It was explained was to| ittacks upon the wide section its 1 question border controlled As it by Mexco. a rategy is considere { torce disposea as BEXTRA DIVIDEND, New York, June 1: Che Al Chalmers Manufacturing Co., today declared an extra dividend of 13§ per cent. on its preferred stock in addi- ' tion to the regular quarterly oreferred dividend of 1% per cent The extra disbursement goes to the account u(k unpaid back dividends. ! shing’s A it was pointed tack With to to assemblc large bord ni repe make it fored by ] but i ng break mpt