New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1916, Page 1

-~ HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS wrErE NEEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEA BETTER BUSINES PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1916.—TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED " PARTY PILOTS IN CHICAGD AT WITS END OVER HUGHES “ Support for Justice Grows, Much | to Disappointment of the 0ld Guard LONG AND HARD FIGHT AT COMING CONVENTION Air of Uncertainty Hangs Like Thick Pall Over Cohorts of G. O. P. and Progressives and No One Seems to Know or Be Able to Guess Answer. | Chicago, June —Uncertainty and restraint were dominant factors here today, forty-eight hours before the gavels were scheduled to fall at the Coliseum and the Auditorium for the ' weoODening of the republican and gressive national conventions. Restraint of a careful, calculating kind marked every movement of big and little leaders, who took close scrutiny in the contest, and made those minute preparations which presage the long fight and the hard fight. ‘If we can hold our crowd until Friday or Saturday,” remarked one adroit manager of a lesser repub- lican candidate, ‘“‘we stand a mighty good show. Let these big fellows go out in front and set the pace for the first laps. We will begin to use gaso- line when these fellows have gone in- to the fence, or to the pits for repairs. “It is not a case, as so many seem to think, of any man to beat Wilson, but it is a case of the best man to reunite the republican party. That is the issue upon which this nomina- tion finally will be settled.” This was much the situation as the latest influx of delegates, alternates and camp followers took place dur- ing the hours up to noon. Nobody Knows Anything If there was one man among the thousands that thronged hotel lobbies and corridors who had a definite idea of what would happen during the next two or three days in connection with the all-absorbing question of a nominee, that man was not in evi- dence. Talking without a full knowledge of the mood of uninstructed delegates, some of the leaders declared that Roosevelt was out of the race; that Hughes was strong but might slump within twenty-four hours unless he gave forth a pronuoncement of his stand, and, finally that nothing short of several ballots would begin to tell the story. There is a noticeable lack, as con- trasted with 1912, of incisiveness and square-jawed determination among the major leaders. Everywhere there was apparent a disposition to go slow today, and as far as possible, let the situation work out itself for a time at least. It was indicated that probably it would be late afternoon or night before any action of great im- portance would result. Noses Being Counted Meantime quiet counting of noses of incoming delegates was taking place, while various managers spread out their subordinates and assistants in dragnet fashion in endeavors to find, if possible, the point at which might occur the first sharp, clear break toward one candidate. Plans and counter plans for precip- itating such a break have been evolved with care, and in two or three instances political leaders have put in- to motion machinery for use in event of a propitious opportunity. pro- Klett Advises With Whitman. (Special to the Herald.) Chicago, June b5—Senator George Klett of New Britain, one of Con- necticut’s delegates and secretary of the Nutmeg state delegation, who has come out definitely declaring himself as a Hughes man, made a special visit to Governor Charles H. ‘Whitman of New York last evening a few hours after the Connecticut special arrived in Chicago. Whitman is one of the stronger Hughes leaders and it was to assist him in directing the movement for the supreme court justice’s nomination that the New Britain man called. As yet there seems to be no change in the preferences of the Connecti- cut delegation, not a single man hav- ing been weaned away from his ori- ginal choice, which include Hughes, Root and Burton. Connecticut’s national committee- man, Judge William Henney has formally announced his candidacy for re-election as national committeeman and he will be opposed by John T King of Bridgeport. These elections will not be made until after the sidential nomination, however. The Connecticut contingency rived at the Union station here yes- terday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock after a most agreeable trip on their palatial special rain. The were met at the station by Mayor Thompson’s special committee and were escorted to their hotel, the Congress and Congress An- nex. Before entering the hotel the delegates were photographed. Tod numbers of the Connecticut spent considerable time touring ar- Chi- (Continued On Eleventh Page.) | aboara of the men opposed to them back | 1 ‘RUSH MORE TROOPS 10 SANTO DOMINGO Between Five and Six Hundred Marines to Be Dlspatched SITUATION IS SERIOUS| Revolutionists Who Fled From Puerto | Plata and Monte Christi St‘l'ongly Entrenched Outside of Latter Town, | Prepared for Resistance. Washington, June 5.—The United States transport Hancock at Vera Cruz today had orders to proceed im- mediately to New Orleans to take between five and six hundred additional marines for Santa Domingo. They will reinforce Rear Admiral Caperton’s command in protecting lives and property of foreign in the revolution-torn republic. Most of the marines will be drawn from Pacific | Navy Yards. | Situation On Island Scrious. Washington, June 5.—Dominican rebels who fled from Puerto Plata and Monte Christi at the approach of American marines have strongly | entrenched themselves outside of the | latter town. A a tch to the state department today from Minister Rus- | sell at Santo Domingo gave further details of the occupation of the town and indicated that the situation on | the island was more serious than had been believed here. A paraphrase of the minister’s mes- sage follow: “After 24 hours’ were landed on June 1 at Monte Christi and Puerto Plata. The fort at Puerto Plata was occupied after two hours. One marine officer probably fatally wounded. Fort and town of Monte Christi occupied without resist- ance but rebels strongly entrenched outside of the town.” The wounded marine officer Capt. Herbert J. Hirshinger, com- manding the detachment from the battleship Rhode Island, who died at Puerto Plata June 1. We was shot through the head while directing the landing of his men. CHAMBER OF COMMERGE ROW GIVEN AN AIRING Merchants Object to Taking People Away from City Saturday. | notice marines was A meeting which promised to pro- duce some excitement in the ranks of the Chamber of Commerce was scheduled to be held this afternoon by the directors of the mercantile bureau in regard to the action of officials of the Chamber who werg | prime movers in securing the local! delegation to participate in Hartford’s preparedness parade last Saturday. The temper of the local merchants who are connected with the bureau | has been aroused. During the latter | part of last week there was no ap- parent attempt on the part of these merchants to disguise their feelings. | Discussing the situation with a Herald man this afternoon one of the prominent members of the burcau | stated that if the local Chamber of | Commerce had arrangements made | for a local parade at a later date there was no doubt that the mer- | chants would close their stores for the day or far two days if the affair called for it. He also pointed out | that in the past the storekeepers have | manifested much patriotic spirt and he branded talk of selfishness which has been circulated as unjust. From the same source comes the informaion that the project to take local citizens to Hartford last Satur- | day was vigorously objected to by all the directors of the bureau with one | exception, the latter having voted in | favar of it. At the meeting this afternoon petition protesting against similar action in the future was presented signed by the following merchants: | W. W. Leland, S. M. Davidson, Sloan Brothers, B. C. Porter Sans, J. M. Halloran, Adkins Printing Co., Spring & Buckley Electric company, Porter | & Dyson Co., J. S. Bennett and E. U. Thompson Co. | a| YOUTH CLAIMS AN ALIBL Melrose, Mass., June 5.—While Har- old Shaw and Harold Mead, the boys detained here in connection with the murder last Thursday of seven year ola Loretta Wakelin, were being ar- raigned today on charges of larceny, the police were investigating an alibi which Shaw claimed would prove they could not have been the girl's assail- | ants. Both pleaded not guilty and | | were ordered held for a hearing on | June 14, “TEDDY” WANT! Oyster Bay, dire Rocseve't letter he 1 couns > RUN, | June 5,—Colonel Theo- | made public today a ceived from W. F. Zierath, | of the state medical society | in which the latter, who was of German dece and t, urged the not | d by the r “To. ard bearer independent of and American party.” Tior Wisconsin, he democer | nomine { varty of said calonel, if publicans, e stanc 1 lic VERDUN CARNAGE CONTINUES WITH INCREASED FURY Germans Are Hurlmg Masses ol Troops at Fort Vaux With Great Loss of Life 'BOTTOM OF RAYINE SOAKED WITH BLOOD Paris Reports All Attempts of Attack- ing Torce to Capture Eminence Hill Stopped—Fr Before Have Been Assaults Break Down tons' Fire—Russians Report turing 13,000 Prisoncrs on I Witk ns Par diminished violence the Germ tinued their last night the Verdun front east of the M The war office report of this after: says these a The Germans attacked June 5, 12:01 p. m attacks saults were unsucces French sitions in the region of Vaux and D loup. Between the fort the village of Damloup the offensive was particularly severe. French are still in pos sion of Vaux. In the vicinity of was heavy artillery fighting. Ur cessful German raids were undert in the Vosges. Butchery Surpasses In their repeated attacl Vaux, one of the outlying defens: Verdun, along the front east Meuse, the Germans are hurling ward their infantry in masses so pact that the first ranks are oblig advance to certain death. The as ing columns debouch from the vi of Damloup, belowe the fort and arated from it by a ravine which are obliged to cross to attain the near the fort. For three d has been the scene of carnage w has saturated the ground with bic One German column advancec further than the bottom of the ra Men in the front ranks, ed those behind, fell as as reached the dead line French quick firers. As over others came on to take and fell in turn. French officers who have from the Verdun front, hardened to the worst sights of declare the butchery there surpa imagination. s on swept by they top their p retu Losses For French. Wireless to Heavy Berlin, June 5, by ville.—Repeated attacks by masses French infantry against German posi- of tions on the Verdun front east Meuse broke down with heav the war office announced today. 1c Rus: Petrograd p. m.—Russian force successes & r the front from Pripet marshes to the Rumanian f) tier, according to an oflicial annou ment here today. It is Russians took 13,000 prisoners. ians Capture 13,000, June 5, via London, h, Turks Drive Russians Back. Constantinople, June 5, via Lon 1:06 p. m.—The reinforced army in the Caucasus which late month began an offensive cam has driven the Russians furiher the war office announced today. DAMON INV Appraisers Figures Show in Scveral Banks. N. Stanley and H. D. Humpl appraisers of the estate of the late German torpedo boats have been res- Copenhagen. | Urias Damon, filed their in of the tods estate y tory in the court. The to 784.91 estate mounts divided in the institutions: Hartford, $2,04 bhan 0; $1,50 Sh which is lowing banking Savings Bank of Brooklyn Savings | ciety for Savings, ton Savings bank Savings bank, ings bank, $1,008. i 00045 widow as sole heir, w by the court, Denver, a Chester Mechanices Mrs. Damon, who was named appointed executrix is now residing in CLASS OF 1917 CALLED Landstrom Abrc Report, Is Rumor. Living London, June 2:08 p. = despatch m.- ter from Zurich says members of the German lands of 1917 who living have been ordered to return home mediately. 158 are The landstrum is home force which includes, in additio soldiers n the 45, all a 39 trained betwec ) between the have receivec those and 7 who | military training. along | Ger Douaumont there Imagination. of the on by although ve won great ated that the Tur. back, 1,781.91 probate Dime | and jumped *to the oc Windsor of the decea Colorado. d Notified to abroad ALL BRITAIN JU HINDENBURE, GRAPHIG BILANT. CONFIDENT THAT FLEET WAS VICTOR: PRIDE OF GERMAN NAVY, BELIEVED T0 BE LOST TALES OF GREAT SEA FIGRT BY RESCUED e of ench | Teu- Cap- ront. A un- con- euse. noon ful. po- dam- and man The Fort nsuc- aken Fort es of for- com- ed to ault- llage sep- they | hich | od 1 no vine. they | the | Sy s pled lace The battle cruiser the British admit losing in the grea North sea battle, a vessel of 17, She took rned wa WAL | 950 tons, part in the nava island th engagement. off the Kkland in December of 1914, in which German Pacific squadron, which made its way into the Atlantic defeating a British squadron off Chilean coast, Ww: destroyed. British dreadnought said by the Germans to have struck by a torpedo, was of Duke ¢ She was built port in 1914 and displaced afte ) th of o the beer )sses t Daven 6:05 the ron- nce- don, kish last navian Ships Admit What Berlin Denies. ) a. m.—Genr: London, June 10 : Scandinaviar man %rs rescued by steamers described the es in the Jutland battle as colos according to a Copenhagen despatcl to the Telegraph Exchange Co. large number of the crew of the crui ser Weishaden and men from s hrey, brought to that many floating cued The 11, | rad | hour fol- | drank and rey ven- of their for thi com ty ( | rt | fter on the sea became an. German survivors of their torpedo were water, thal anc 3.68; | So- | The several submarines British shells and | Bodies of both British and Germar sailors are beginning to he washec | ashore on the coast of Jutland. sed | ¢ ptains of steamers arriving also | Seandinavian harbors report that She | hig German cruisers which were erating along the Courtland near Riga, have been withdrawn anc large squadron of destroyer boats zed by instantly ning- Sav- Sav- ir op | that which had been patrolling the south a ern Baltic was not sighted last | { | 1 FALMOUTH Say LEFT MAIL AT Berlin, June 5, by wirele A despatch from The 1t the Holland-America steam Noordam, \\hlr‘h arrived at Rot m on M from New as compelled by the British authori ties to leave her mail at Falmouth. to Reu- that trum e im- N o T U WEATHER. defense o Hariford, June Hartford and vicinit) crally fair tonight and day. Slightly cooler tonight. 1 no Invincible, which had Marlborough, the Iron 5,000 tons. GERMAN SURVIVORS SAY | LOSSES WERE COLOSSAL Sailors Rescued By Scandi- Teutonic loss- al, A veral 1fts without food or water, insane the the coast, | wek. Hague | York, was 620 feet long, 27 feet deep. The Pommern, lo in The Marlborough 89 feet beam and German battleship the fight. was a second line vessel, with a displacement of 12,997 tons. Her full complement of men and offi- cers was 7 She was 398 feet long, with a depth of twenty-one feet. The ship was built in 1907 at a cost of §6,- 000.000." The British battle cruiser squadron is commanded by Vice Ad- miral Sir David Beatty, in whom Am- ans may be said to be specially in- | terested, because he.is married to an American, the daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago. Prince t 1 s 29, A - o e n Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, is commander in chief of the German fleet, but was not in command at sea in the battle, that honor falling to Vice Admiral Scheer, commander of the high sea fleet. Stories of the bat- that the activity of the German fleet was due to the energetic demands of Emperor William to his brother and ) SHL British Press, Recov From Early News, mistic That Berlin's G Were Exaggerated Now Reflects Happy “VICTORS DO NOT AWAY,” IS ATTIT] London Believes Kaiser's Atte Usurp Mastery of Sea Is Col Blocked and Assaults on Shores by Swift Cruisers atness of for All Time—G Grows With Sailors Stories, 333 BRIT 1 OFFICE] KILLED June 5.—A tof] 333 officers were killed Jutland battle, according list issued by the admiral day. This list shows tha tually all the officers of cruisers Queen Mary, Invi Indefatigable, Defence Black Prince and from th stroyers Tipperary, Turl Fortune, Ardent, Nomand, tor and Shark perished. officers except one fro cruiser Warrior were sav all the officers from the d: er Sparrowhawk. On the| ships 23 oflicers were killg 22 wounded. London, 3:30 with fulle: na London, June a morning papers, the show no tinge of Morning Post calls the figh available on great pessimis Admiral von Capelle, minister of the navy, on the emperor’s recent visit to Wilhelmshaven. No. 1, the Pommern; No. 2, Prince Henry; No. 3, Admiral Beatty; No. 4 the Invincible; No. 5, the Marlborough. The British deny the loss of the Marlborough. 3 SH CRUISER 15 BLOWN INTO THE AIR. Defense and Warrior Were Under Fire from Both BRITISH London, June 3 of the British cruise: at 3 who that Defence German rrior e anded Devonport say » | the Warrior and the cruiser | graph 'NO MORE VISITS FROM FAST GERMAN VESSELS English Coast Considered Safe As Result of Jut- lanr Battle. TLondon, June 5, m.—The outcome of the naval battle off Jut- land is described in the morning Tele- under the headline of “the greatest naval battle in history,” as steamed between two lines of warships with the result that a few minutes the Defence wa into the air and the V ior riddled A storm of German | exploding on the de of the rior almost suffocated the crew their When Germans were at length | driven off by British reinforcements | the pumps were manned on the hat- | tered and sinking ship and succeeded | in keeping her afloat until an auxil- jary took the Warrior in tow for 48 hours, when she foundered One of the officers of the rior told the order in which the | ish famous flagship, led the cruisers into action and terrific bombardment. The Invinci- ble the first to down, fol- lowed closely by the Indefatigable and | a few minutes later by the Queen within s blown badly V with ; gases. the t 1 1 1 W Brit- battle 1 withstood a was g0 1 D. OF C. CONTEST BITTER. - | G. 0. P. Has Fight on Hands Over Two Delegates. Chicago, June 5.—The republican ional committee t { rush h | plete its report 1wy prepared to hearings the through the and com- on twenty-eight contests remaining to be décided. Settlement of the Louisiana contests compromise giving one-half contestant, hailed ening the committee laho ute the seatiy the District as the I by vot« to each was as over of two Colum- | bitterly ates fro bia re contested. of arded most | worla | saturds absolutely avorable to the British. The Telegraph savs: ‘“Whatever hopes | the Germans have entertained of terfering with the allied control the maritime communications of must be abandoned, prob: | for the whole of this summer. The | movement by sea of troops and their equipment will proceed with greater safety even than in the past Thus | this action will directly contribute to | the strength of the allied armies in- | of the tory so momentous that th may prove the turning pol war.” The Telegraph thus its account: ‘“Immense fore: second greatest naval powe) world have been driven to p fore some furious storm of v * * * Though the British deprived by some circumsts the complete victory on whi set its heart, Wednesday's af completely changed the nava in every sea and ocean in th The Graphic says: “At the| trial of strength the British achieved a glorious victo: robbed of its full fruit by thd flight.’ The fight ser tion that mined equal The s comments br “victors not run away.” everal editorial articles 1 misleading wording ©of the a first announcement The Post typifies this point of saying: “The announcement| tunate, as the people drew clusion that the government ing at defeat instead of victd the fact, discreetly conveying of a magnificent success. T: a great victory and adm nounced it like a defeat.” Hindenburg and Dmtzow News' view is “to confirm th German fleet se to come to Daily es the to ref terms. do P fleet whic battle London, June ish officers of t pated in the J tland evervwhere “The conditions in the have in particular been There almost complete assuran that there will be no flying visits our coast from German battle ers. The fast squadron of the man fleet is in no condition to even a hit-and-run sion to side of the North “Although the British naval for cannot relax their vigilant g possibility of the enemy ende to interfere with the blockade dismissed for the present sibility of th invasion of En not exist, temporarily at les “In the Baltic also the can be in no condition to an offensive for some Wednes action has the further safety right \\1.\: of the Russian army d on the Gulf of Riga.” | 1 DEFER ACTION, “ The pro: national committee today dec! withhold nominating a candidate the progressive convention until 3 iting the action of the publican convention. « North sea | improved. | crt c ma T exc this rees wr Germ undert weelks contrib the Te ay's 1ted of TO June MOOSE Chicago. ve | to | n next | | i rc | retur: German i Lelt | thicknes: feet | dende identify two hip. Lut ed here battles as ZOW le cruis| Da wi 6 Hi i at st twelve pounder gunds ibout thirteen midships. She and of the test battle cruis ty i The Hindenburg is not lisf latest naval records. It h reported, however, that sh battleship of the large ar powerful dreadnought in the fall of 1915 Seydlitz Reported Denma » Aalbor \ inch, ve was long 1 powerful ty1 London m of which published hat t ton Germar tie cruise was sighted Thursday Island, pur British nd badly d it i leved t un} h d naged cydlitz this 1 wper | by (Continued On