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

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERAL — HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1916 —SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1 WILSON EXPECTED TO ASK CONGRESS TO SEND EXPEDITION TO CHIHUAHU! May Appear Before Joint Session of Both Branches Tomorrow and Request That Army Pu Its Way Into Mexico to Rescue Tenth Cavalry Troopers Held Prisoner By Carranza CONNECTICUT TROOPS SPEEDING ~OUUTH TO AID OF GEN. FUNSTON Troop A of New Haven = Only Part of State Guard Not Taken to Border and < Will Stay at Niantic Niantic, June 28.—All of the Con- the south pecticut militiamen ordered Mexican border were moving today with the exception of Troop A, cavalry, of New Haven, which is left in the state camp here for the pres- ent. The last of the contingents, the third battalion of the Second Regi- ment of Infantry, entrained early to- day and left Niantic at 2:42 a. m. This battalion, Major Henr; A. Beebe commanding, included Com- panies I, K, L and M, the supply company and sanitary troops. The other battalions of the Sec- ond Regiment left earlier, the first battalion, Major Ernest L. Isbell commanding, taking the train shortly ‘before midnight and the second bat- talion, under command of Major George E. Hall leaving soon after haif past one this morning. Colonel Mc- Cabe and his staff left with this bat- talion. 4 The troop movement was begun yesterday morning when the trains bearing Troop B, cavalry, of Hart- ford, and the First Connecticut Field company, Signal Corps pulled out. Then came numerous delays, up the departure of the various com- smands for hours The field hospital and the First Regiment of Infant left during yesterday afternoon and evening. to More Troops Called. New Haven, June necticut troops are to be despatched to the southwest without delay ac- cording to orders which will be issued later in the day. Troop A, cavalry ordered to entrain tomorrow at Ni- antic, and Battery E of Branford and | v Battery F of Stamford, the latter at the East Haven Range, and the form- er at its armory in Branford, are ex- pected to be ordered to leave before Sunday. Both the batterles need equipment but they, have the maxi- mum number of men. . e 1,000 Move Toward Border. New York, June 28.—Some four- teen thousand national guard troops from the department of the east al- ready are on their way to the Mex- fcan border today. Upwards of 40,- 000 more are in state camps or armories walting to be sent away as soon as equipment and transportation can be provided. Major General Wood hoped to be able to start for the border today a brigade of Pennsylvania troops, a regiment and a battalion of field ar- tillery and possibly a regiment of engineers and a squadron of cavalry and field artillery from Massachuseits. The Twelfth Infantry Regiment of New York City and the Second In- fantry having headquarters at Troy, N. Y., but now at Camp Whitman e: pected to entrain at any moment. The first battalion of the first field artil- lery, the 22nd Engineers, a squadron of the First Cavalry and a fleld hos- pital and ambulance company, all of New York, also are ready to start today if transportation is provided. Other New York regiments concentrating at Camp Whitman. Bay State Gives 5,000. Framingham, Ma: June 28.—The last of the federalized militia organi- zations called from this s for bor- der service started for the zouth to- day. The field artillerv and cavalry forces entrained during the night and ! forenoon and set out as the rear of the movement which Brig. Gen. T Leroy Sweetser and the Ninth Regi- ment began on Monday night. (Continued On Fifteenth Page). holding | 28.—More Con- | is | NO TRIFLING WITH TROOPS IN NOGALES Americans Will Cross if Shot Is Fired—Fight Last Night. Nogales, Ariz., June 28.—American occupation of Nogales, Sonora, loomed close early today when eight Mexican soldiers were driven back by a United States sentry post as they tried to cross to the American side. The Mexicans withdrew and Major William Brooke ordered his men to “drop anybody you see acting sus- piciously. If a shot comes from over there we will go straight acro Shots were exchanged shortly be- | fore midnight last night between a squad on the west side of town and a detachment of Mexican soldiers. | The corporal in charge of the post | reported that he challenged the Mex- | icans, that they continued to ad- vance without replying, and that af- ter they were well over the line they fired a shot at him. He then or- dered his squad to fire, retreating to a point 150 yards north of the line | to prevent being flanked. The Mexi- cans rpetreated. When reserve companies of infan- try were rushed to the line the Mex- jcan border guard opposite withdrew into the Mexican town. About twenty shots were fired the United States troops. A Mexican officer then rode up to the customs house and said his men had been fired on while they were on | their side. Major William Brooke, of- | ficer of the guard, said every sentry was posted well back of the line. No | casualties were reported by the Mex- jeans. Later the reserve troops were withdrawn. | At a conference at the lines with | Major Brooke, the Mexican com- mandant, General Orsa Garay, prom- |ised a rigid investigation and severe | penalties for any of his men found at | fault. EXPECTS ANSWER TODAY | by Special Agent Rodgers in Mexico City | Wires Reply to Wilson’s Note May | | Reach Him Before Night. | ‘Washington, June 28.—Special Agent Rodgers at Mexico City, in a brief telegram dated vyesterday and received at the state department early today, said he expected to be handed today Carranza's reply to the Ameri- | can note demanding the release of sol- | | | | diers taken prisoners at Carrizal, The message containing but two sentences, was the first word the de- partment had heard from Mr. Rodg- ers since he reported the delivery of | the note. . It said it was believed the Mexican authorities were investigating the Carrizal affair but gave no indica- tion of what would be the reply to the American demands. When , NO WAR, SAYS NAON. | New York, June ~Romulo | Naon, Argentine ambassador to the | Unitea States, issued a statement here | today in which he said that, while he | had made no offer of mediation Jook- !ing to the settlement of the differ- ! s between the United States and Mexico, he was “in candor confident that the present crisis will be peace- fully settled.” | PROTESTS AGAINST “OUTRAGIS.” | . Washington, June 28 —A note pro- | testing against outrages against | Mexican citizens alleged to have been committed by an American force, | 2,000 strong, marching from San | Geronimo toward Valle, was sent to | the state department today by Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador | designate, on' instructions from the | Carranza foreign office. i 3 | feel i expense NIANTIC A SCHOAL Several Hundred Will Be Har:| ened and Taught How to Sheot MAY SEE BORDER LATER| Will' Be Dispatched South as Soou as They Are Whipped Into Fighting Trim—*Dic Think They Have Grievance. Camp Holcomb, Niantic, June This mobilization recticut National the Con- denuded of supplementary troops, Troop A, of New Haven, was entirely given over to the preliminary work of training recruits today. Major Richard North, Second Infantry, a reserve officer, is in command. To him began report- ing today the other reserve office who will be assigned to the depot bat- talion of five companies of infantry to be composed almost wholly cruits, most them of very raw terial. These recr s will be dened and taught iilitary routine, then sent ta the st Haven range for rifle practice, and when fit will be forwarded by detachments to the Connccticut commands wherever they may be along the Mexican border. Ther are several hundred re camp More than hailf are those recruited to fill companies to strength hefore the orders to go into camp came. These recruits expect to eventually find themselves in the companies in which they had en- listed but those who joined the colors afterward will have to take a chance of getting into the company in which they desire to go as they will bhe chiefly used ta fill up ranks and equalize commands which are below the maximum strength This assimi- lation probably will not be for several weeks, The recruits have a long and rd period of training ahead. “Dickies” Hur The backbone of the comman will be made by working in the three hundred or more militiamen who re- main here to fill out short ter of their enlistments under the Dick law. Many of these well trained and seasoned men expect to be appointed non-commissioned officers in the com- few of the recruits can so Many of these militiamen Kkeenly the circumstances which kept them here. Ma r Shuttleworth, A., as chief mustering officer, not send to the border men whose militia enlistments expire within three months, as the federal | government would be under heavy | in returning them theix kome stations for discharge. These rzilitiamen would not take the federal h for three vea ervice. Captain Harry Carter, Second In- fantry, is camp adjutant Captain James Haggerty, pany C, who was second in in the regiment. Capt, Carter his senior, is the senior lina among the instructo Yale Batteries Coming Saturds The Yale Batteries will probably by turday under Major | Danford, U A., for a four weeks darill period There is plenty of room here for field drill and it is not neces- for the batteries to to St Haven. The batteries need 12 far- riers and 14 cooks. more supplics and equipment, but they will move when these are obtained without waiting for more men, trusting to recruits coming here. Upon the de rture Regiment the postal camp left with Brady who has been office and was Chaplain Petty try in that “rookie’” t lain Petty the Second the camp for Guara, and infantry, cavalry except for | ce: Are wveould to of Com- seniority being officer come here of the Second ngements ‘n Private Philip in the Yale p assizned to work under of the Necond Infan- regiment. As Brody is red behind Chap- cd Wl ma Regiment 1 wrivi will for direct to No e impossi were it arrar en camp he Ves to follow Do it would enroute, and to regiment from involve have it station great labor and delay and The would end less ho | as general (Continued 6n Fifteenth Page.) 100CCUPYAUTD PARTS BUILDING Concern Has Capital ~ of §500,000 and Will Prob- ably Employ 300 Hands When It Gets Settled Here The new factory by the Chamber of Commerce Build- ing Company, Inc., is to have an oc- cupant soon, this information having been rececived from a definite source by The Herald. The concern which will soon locate here is what was for- merly known as the Barnes & Kobert company of Milldale. All arrange- ments pertaining to the removal of the concern to this city were complet- ed at a meeting of the directors of the building company and John H. Trumbull and James M. Carney, di- rectors of the Hartford Auto Parts company, the original lesseces of the site, and who secured permission from the Chamber of Commerce company to sublet the building to the new Mill- dale concern. The factory, on its removal to this city, will be operated under the name of the B. & K. com- pany, permission to do this having been secured through the proper me- dium. Outgrows Southington Plant. The concern began operations about two years ago, manufacturing pole gal- vanized hardware and electrical ac- oric The brand of product soon attracted some of the largest manu- facturing concerns in the country, who placed large orders with the com- pany. The expansion of business soon became too great for the present quar- ters of the concern and it began to look around for more adequate factory conditions. In its connection with the Hartford Auto Parts company it was 1 ned tkat the local building would be ideal for the rapidly growing concern, and through the medium of Messrs. Trumbull and Carney the ne- gotiations which will mean the re- moval to this city were completed Capital Is $500,000. Several thousands of d« of machinery belonging to the ford Auto Parts company will be moved to this city at once. The com- pany has an authorized capital stock of $500,000, $250,000 of which is com- mon and $250,000 preferred. Mr. Trumbull and Mr. Carney have been clected to the directorate of the B. & K. company, and Mr. Carney will act manager of the plant, time between the local the Hartford Auto Parts ' worth spending his concern and company The B- & K two large additional factory near the present factory and negotia- tions are mow in progress for pur- chase of the necessary land. One of the buildings will be utilized as a forging shop while the other will be used as a galvanizing plant. It is the aim of the new the present the building months, buildings building company outright within from three Has 225 Employos. The present, B at of con- local & K. employs about hands. Fift this number will accompany the cern A of company to 1his city. number (Continued On Fifteenth WEATHE Hartford, Hartford erally fai tonight Jane and victnity and slightl; and Thursday. Gen- cooler building erected | Hart- | company plans to erect | company to purchase ! EVILLISTAS ARDUSE (CONCERN ON BORDER ‘Former Followers of Bandit Con- § tipue to Join Carranza }NOT ORIOUS CASTILLO ENLISTS Man Blamed for Cumbre Mine Horror | in Which Twenty-five Americans Were Killed, Returns to Take Up Gun, 28.—Fresh found El Tex., June cause for apprehension Paso, was along the border today in news of the gathering of strong forces of former Villa sympathizers notorious chieftains in the vicinity of Juarez and the close surveillance by the civilian and military authorities on former ad- herents who are now refugees in El Paso. General Jose Flores, commanding 800 infantrymen, is reported in Juarcz, after making peace with the de facto government. General Manuel Banda, once a Villa subordinate, known to be across the Rio Grande, and Msuuel Madinavietia and Jose Ysabel Robles, also have taken advantage of the am- nesty granted by Carranza. Still an- other former Villa leader, Col. Maximo Castillo, has joined General Gonzales' garrison in Juarez. Castillo, who has been blamed for the dynamiting of the Cumbre tunnel in February, 1914,, in which twenty-five Americans and fifty Mexicans lost their lives, recently returned to Mexico via Vera Cruz from Cuba, where he went after being re- leased from custody after the Cumbre crime. | Raiders May Be Villistas. | The bandit raid near Hachita, which | resulted in the murder of William Parker and his bride, still was a sub- ject of speculation today in connection with the presence of the former Villa followers in Juarez and the apparent lack of protection afforded the border from bandit raids. Their probable ac- tivities in the event of hostilities gave rise to numerous alarmist theori Although the embargo of munitions still is enforced rigidly at points of entry, that regarding food is not. Sev- eral wagon loads of foodstuffs held up at the international bridges were re- leased. tolay after the consignors re- ceived permission from Washington to send them a That the food shortage is becoming acute in the in- terior of Mexico was declared by a ; rivals from the south who bread lines in Chihuahua City, Du- rango and Torreon, and brought pic- tures to substantiate their statements. To Dynamite Railroads. Mexican refugees who reached the border today from the mining dis tricts of southern Chihuahua brought s of the organization of “dyna- mite squads” in Yeneral Trevino's They said it is planned, should come apparent in the event of | war that the de facto troops could not hold the railroads, to destroy them, and the detachments now stationed ong the Mexican Cent and the Mexican Northwestern be con- centrated at Chihuahua Bombs and hand grenades, it id, were being made of iron pipes filled with powder, nails and scrap iron. Arrangements virtually have completed here for national camp sites. The largest guard since the present | erisis developed was stationed last night at the international bridges, al- { though no fear was expressed that 10uld an outbreak occur, an attempt would be made to rush the structure. Tk believed that should such foray occur the attempt would be | made at other point along the | river. under will City. was s heen guard was a some BARRY GIVES June RUSH 28 ORDER. Orders were today by Major General { Thomas H. Barry, in command of the i central department of the TUnited States army, for the immediate nove- | ment to the border of all units of the Tilinic Missouri, Kansas andq W consin National Guard which are ‘reasonably ready. told of | in which to comply with the hua City. by force. Unofficial reports stated ica City last night. Officials ico City. interest, on the chance that delivered by him. hua City. Only by incidental consideration was given the state department today to Mr. Arredondo’s communication sent late yesterday asking that thirty whom he said had Ari- Mexican civilians, been arrested in California and zona, be released, against the unofficial embargo against and complaining shipment of foodstuffs and merchan- dise across the boundary into Mex- ico. All questions including that of pos- sible mediation, were regarded as sub- | sidiary to that American troopers at Chihuahua. Of- of the freeing of the | ficials were gratified to learn by a re- port of the British consul in that city that the well treated and that only two were slight- 1y prisoners were being wounded. Must Release There that Prisoners, was nothing today to indi- cate the Washington govern- | ment’s position had undergone any Officials still expected Presi- to go to congress to- if Carranza failed to act or unfavorably. Anything short release of the Amer- be ynsatisfactory. of nego- be ac- change. dent Wilson morrow replied | of immediate ican troopers will No suggestions or proposal tiations in this regard will cepted. It was pointed out today that Sec- retary Lansing’s note presenting the demand sought to open no discussion of the Carrizal incident. The fact that the men were captured and wer being held was viewed as a hostile act requiring immediate repudiation by the de facto government through the release of the Mr. Rodgers' statement ranza officials appeared to be ducting an inquiry into the Carr clash was interrupted here ing rather that the reply port previous assertions that American troops were responsible than that a change of attitude was to be prisoners. that Car- con- al as indica:- would sup- tho expected. While it will not affect 1 policy the government, port on the Carrizal fight Pershing is awaited, The only account of must be supplemented who, were with hoard officers Gen. Pershing to based on the manders. Jliseo the general a ‘na from Gen. Capt. Morey by Boyd be assigned emble a report of 1l com- troopers A e Captain of may stories Arredondo, the Carranza am- sador designate, still had received no word early today from his ~chief about the status of the diplomatic ne- | gotiations. Mr. Arredondo has in Washington, June 28—This was regarded by W ington as the crucial day in negotiations with Mexi It was probably the last day allowed General Car: tion does not arrive by tonight, or if it President Wilson is determined to go before congresg bably tomorrow, and ask authority to rescue the prisg - | non-partisan President of De Facto Government Thoy to be Sparring for Time to Secure Co eration of Other Latin-American Count President Determined Not to Waste Words and Accept No Excus iy United States’ demand f( lease of twenty-three troopers held as prisoners at Ch If his reply either by act or in a commul is unsatisfad that Carranza’s reply w its way to Washington, having been dispatched from had no intimation of it ture. The state department telegraph room was wa closely by administration officials for the note whic have been transmitted by Special Agent Rodgers at The Mexican embassy also was the object of sj the note may have bee to Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador designate, Indications were that congress would comply pr¢ ly with President Wilson.’s request, in case he shoul it necessary to send an armed expedition against C Carranza of th the Unite| rel but formed Gen. mined sentiment in in demanding the American troopers, reply. ase has 7 Supplies for Everyone. War officials have perfected arrangeng food department they which ample supplies of age and clothing will be prov all troops called into the fed vice, matter how great ti bers may be. Secretary Bak made public the following s from the quartermaster gene “The quartermaster corps h the present time, met allt made upon it for supplies i of clothing and equipage & the arrangements which we n for purchasing in order to stock it is not believed theref any difficulty no matter how troops are called “As far as food supplies cerned these have been abuni quantity and of excellent qua arrangements are such that will continue when the large of troops in Texas is made, § ter being entirely handled department commander throl department quartermaster. “The only difficulty so far| jenced has been in obtaining ficlent number of motor truc] certain type preferred by a ficials for border use. Plenty g of proper size and power bu ferent designs are immediatel lable.” Carranza’s no delay in replyl jleved here ta be due largel hcpe to have South and American countries agree course fully before he take step. President Wilson had He received a long line of and representatives, and shod with more than a hundred Scnator Lewis, of Illinois, wH the callers who discussed t can problem “The president expressed to me,” Senator Lewis said whatever discussion there in congress on the an should be conducted ' entirel manner.,”” John R. Silliman, congul aj who now is at Eagle Pass, | vised the state departmer’@ | ceipt by Dr. Atl, eaitelegra; | City labor paper. of.0% he w | General Carranza~NINg poss| | pared to do e the United | avoid a br 1 at Eagle Pa Dr. Atl he--onferences des | ticlpatine "€ War, and is {aid in <0 Washington this | to a b M e W ontinued on Fiftcenth Pag