New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916. TRIP TO NOGALES NONE T00 PLEASANT Hot Weather and Poor Train Ac- ‘comodations Cause Discomfort TWO SEATS FOR PICKUP Company I Boys Think Tex s Last Piece of Country Created and Then Only Half Finished—Some 1 Raising Mustaches En Route. (Special to the Herald.) Troop Train, 7-3-16, en route to No- gales, Arizona: With the long journey across the continent, from little old New Brit- ain to faraway Mexico, almost over I had best give you a few things of Lnterest en route before they have been crowded out of mind by any other things that the future may have In store. You had previous infor- mation that we put up in Chicago over night before starting on this, our last leg of the journey. Chicago is called the “Windy City,” but as far as we could ascertain there is no real “ reason for it being called by that name for during the long sultry night we spent here there was not a breath of wind stirring. Texas A Desolate State. But it was not until after we crossed the Mississippi river that it began ‘o get so infernally hot. Cross- Ing through the state of Texas it was terrible and much of the time the —SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876. TROPICAL STORM MOVES NORTHEAST Wind Velocity 106 Miles an Hour— No Estimate of Lives Lost— Seventeen Known Dead Washington, July 7.—The tropical storm which struck the Gulf coast Wednesday with a yet uncounted toll of lives and property is now over north Mississippi and moving northeastward with diminished energy. The weather bureau today reported that the wind velocity at Mobile, Ala., during the height of the storm was 106 miles an hour. Reports of damage along the Gulf coast and in Mi bpi and Alabama were meagre today. The property loss may amount to several millions. Seventeen negroes lost their lives near Beloit, Ala., last night. Crops suffered greatly from the rain. Traffic on the more important rail- roads was almost completely tied up and wire communication with Gulf points impossible or badly crippled. New Orleans, July 7.—A message -received at Seima, Ala., today from Mobile over a railroad telegraph wire said at least three or four persons were kilked there during the hurricane of Wednesday. Direct reports received from the area swept by the storm indicated to- day that damage to property and growing crops in Mississippi, Ala- bama, West Florida and Southeastern Louisiana would aggregate several million dollars. Damage in Mobile was estimated at about $450,000 and to merchants’ stocks about $50,000 additional. The Norwegian steamer Freda was driven ashore on Alacran reef in the Gulf of Mexico during heavy weather June 29. The crew of twenty-one were taken off. boys spent lolling in their seats garbed only in their little B. V. D.’s. With Texas behind us, however, it is more comfortable. From some sections of the Lone Star State we have seen, we have been led to believe that it was the last place the Creator made and it was only half finished. Other parts are not so bad, but in the {fleserts—the least said the better. We left El Paso early this morning (Monday) and at the time of this writing are shooting through the most desolate stretch of country it has ever been our misfortune to look ut. Sand, cactus and rocks—that's gll. Not even a bill board to break the monotony. The new environment has kept the interest of everyone from New Britain. T must confess that during the first few days of our irip there were same very homesick members of the party and they cared very little for the secenery. But now, however, they are becoming hardened campaigners and don’t worry about getting back home so much. In fact they say if they don’t get back they won’t worry anyway—so there you are. Bad Train Accommodations. One deplorable feature of our entire trip has been the detestable train service. Since leaving Niantic' a week 2go we have had only day coaches and gix days and six nights of that so¥t of travel is not any too pleasant. The cne big question of the trip that has worried Captain Ladbury considerably | has been to provide a suitable bunk for Pickup—the “big feller” as the brakeman on the train calls him. It was finally voted to give Pickup an extra seat in which to sprawl his great length, breadth and bulk and that helped a lot. Bald Heads and Mustaches. We expect to arrive in Nogales this afternoon and after that I shall have nccess to my own baggage and will un- doubtedly be able to secure some in- teresting photographs. I will try to get a few pictures of some of the boys before the many bald heads have ceased to be the attraction they now are (many of the men have had their bair clipped close.) A little later on a picture, if I can get some at close range,” would give you ample proof of the attempted mustaches. These two iittle points seem to have hit almost a1l of us. Now that we have really left God's country and struck into the wild and woolly the entire battalion takes a more business-like attitude. The “Greasers” along the roadside had threatened to attempt to wreck the troop trains, we are told, but accord- Ing to the dope handed out at each station the white men of the district, with their six shooters, have taken ample precaution against such actions. Greaser huts strung out all along the line have given the boys some fear of wrecks for all that. Exercise Each Day. On the way down there have been & number of new appointments made. Tomorrow or the next day I will send you a full roster of Company I along with these announcements if I can. But until,we learn just how much trouble the Mexicans are going to give us it is hard to promise anything. Our company is very fortunate in hav- Ing the officers that we have and as soon as we reach camp we are sure of the right sort of military training. Each day ¢n the train we are given a half hour of brisk exercise and that helps a lot in limbering up cramped limbs. ‘We understand that on arrival Nogales a more rigid censorship to be met up by the government, I guess there won't be any trouble in getting word back to you if we don’t give away any state secrets. The train whistles, the boys all crane their necks out of the windows. We seem to be approaching a town. Another disappointment. It is not Nogales, but Tucson, Arizona. I will post the letter there and write later from headquarters. at IMMORALITY GHARGE IS T0 BE PRESSED Osborne Will Be Tried on That Count if Weeks Can Bring it About. White Plains, July 7.—Notwith- stand that Thomas Mott Osborne has been reinstated as warden of Sing Sing prison, District Attorney Freder- ick Weeks will, he said today, take every legal step to bring him to trial on the charge of immorality. This accusation remains technically part of one of the two indictments | which a Westchester county grand | jury brought against Mr. Osborne last | December in connection with his ad- ministration of Sing Sing. One of these bills charged perjury and the trial resulted in acquittal. The re- maining one charged negligence of duty with a sixth count alleging im- morality. Supreme court Justice Platt ordered this sixth count quashed and tfl ap- pellate division in Brooklyn s ned his action. District Attorney Weeks has ever, obtained a temporary stay prevents Justice Platt from finally signing his order, and argument on this stay will be heard before the ap- pellate division on July 28. If it is permanently sustained, Mr. Weeks said, he will carry Justice Platt’s de- cision to the state court of appeals. OW- ‘hich POLICEMAN IN COLLISION. Mounted Officer Fred Wagner and El- mer Recor in Main Street Mixup. Mounted Policeman Fred Wagner and Elmer Recor, the former on his motorcycle and the latter in an auto- mobile collided on Main street this morning but neither was injured. The policeman was turning around with the south just as the automobilist came up the street. Both tried to avoid a collision but the front of the motorcycle banged into the rear of the auto. The auto fender was somewhat bent and the front fork and front wheel of the motorcycle was damaged. Re- pairs will be made at once in order that the machine may not be out of service. FINAT: PAYMENT MADE. U. S. Government Now Owns Clear Title to Alaskan Railway. Seward, Alaska, July 7.—Final payment of $650,000 has been made by the United States gavernment to Canadian bondholders for the old Alaska Northern Railway, thus com- pleting the government’s title to this property which was taken over as part of the federal railroad between Seward and Fairbanks. The notification of the payment came today to Andrew Christiansen manager of the land department of the United States railroad. CHANGE IN ATTITUDE, National Educators Assent to Military Training in Schools. New York, July 7.—The National Tducatianal association went on record today as assenting to military training in schools providing that *military ends should not be permitted 1o pervert the educational purpose and practices of the school.” This is a change of attitude vear the convention came out | footealy against such training. Last flat- | States is prepa CARRANZA PROPOSAL AGCEPTED BY U . Dilferences Will Be Seftled by Direct Negotiations REPLY GIVEN ARREDONDO Mexican Ambassador Designate Is Handed Communication Following Cabinet Meeting—Mexico Ob- serve Argentine Independence Day. to ‘Washington, July 7.—A note for- mally accepting General Carranza’s proposal that differences between the United States and the de facto gov- ernment of Mexico be settled by di- rect negotiations, was handed to Eli- zeo Arredondo, the Mexican ambas- sador designate. Secretary Lansing took a draft the note at today's cabinet meeting and had it delivered promptly after the cabinet adjourned. The course to be pursued already had been agreed upon by President Wilson and his advisers. Text of Note. The text of the note, addressed to Mr. Arredondo, follows Sir: I have the honor to acknow- ledge the receipt of your communica- tion of July 4, 1916, in which you transcribe a note addressed to me by the secretary of foreign relations by your government and to request that you will transmit to him the follow- ing reply: “Mr. Secretary: T to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous note transmitted to me by Senor Arredondo on the fourth in- stant in which you refer to my notes of June 20 and June 25, and to as- sure you of the sincere gratification of my government at the frank state- ment of the difficulties which have un- fortunately arisen in our relations along the international boundary, and the unreserved expression of the de- sire of your government adjustment of these difficulties on a broad and amicable | The same spirit of friendship and of solicitude for the continuance of cordial rela- tions between our two countries in- spires my government which equally desires an immediate solution of the matters of difference which have long vexed both governments. “It is especially pleasing to my gov- ernment that the de facto government of Mexico is disposed to give quick as well as practical consideration in a spirit of concord to the which may be applied to the existing conditions. Reciprocating the desire, the government of the United red immediately to ex- change views as to a practical pls to remove finally and prevent a re- currence of the difficulties which have been the source of the controvers “Accept, Mr. Secretary, the re- new&d assurances of my highest con- sideration. “I am, Sir, Your Very Sincerely, “ROBERT LANSING."” The war department was busy as- sembling for the first time in history the United States regular army re- serve of four thousand or five thou- sand enlisted men recently retired from active service but still subject to call in case of “‘war or emer- gency."” sis. Forces Diminishing, On the other hand a material diminution of National Guard for border duty was in prospect as a result of Secretary Baker's order au- thorizing discharge from service of those guardsmen with dependent families. The series of conferences ellor Polk of the state depart- and Elizeo Arredondo, Mexican ador designate, for which the forthcoming note doubtless prepares the way, may extend beyond the question of protecting the against future bandit raids and go into the sore need of the Carranza government for financial support. This possibility created considerable interest among administration offi- cials and diplomats today. It was re- garded as an indication that the United States wishes to assist the neighbor republic to bring order out of its international turmoil. There was no thought, however, that the question of first importance in diplo- matic discussicn would be anything except protecting the border. To Celebrate Independence. Mexico City, July 7.——As a corollary to his last nete to Washington, invit- ing the United States to settle pend- ing difficulties by accepting the me- diation offers of South American re- publics, General Carranza today is- sued a decree declaring Sunday, July 9 a public hcliday in commemoration of the centennary of Argentine inde- pendence. The decree said that was declared a between the holiday a token of friendship for the people of Argentine and be- cause pleasant happenings in any of the few nations of America ought to be a cause of joy for all other: The foreign office was ordered communicate this decree to the sec retary of state of the Argentine re public and to elegiaph it to all towns and cittes throughout the republic of Mexico. to VILLA AGAIN, gty Antonio, General had reached him re-appearance report placed men at from a rumor Vill Parral e of Villa's south of | the estimate 1 800 to 2,000. i of have the honor | to reach an ! remedies | same | forces border | | CAMP HOLCOMB WILL ' SOON BE VACANT Mustering Out of Men and Sending Others West Make Concentra- tion Base Useless. Camp Holcomb, Niantic, July 7.— An order from Major Gen. Wood commanding the department of the east, to Major E. A. Shuttleworth, U. A., the camp commandant, today was to the effect that all recruits in i camp here who pass the physical test, should be sent to the southwest be- ginning Tuesday next. As rejected recruits are being dis- charged as fast as their papers are made out the departure of recruits to bring Connecticut units up to max- imum strength will empty this camp and its use as a concentration base will probably cease. Major Shuttleworth was unable to say whether he will go to the border. NO ABATEMENT IN PARALYSIS PLAGUE City, State, and Federal A thorities Combine to Fight Epidemic. | New York, July 7.—With city, state and federal authorities fighting the disease the epidemic of infantile par- alysis showed little signs of abatement today. During the 24 hours ending at 10 o’clock this morning 22 more chil- | dren died. Nineteen of this number succumbed in Brooklyn. | eighty-seven new cases reported. Hartford, July 7.—The state bhoard of health at a meeting today consid- red matters relating to the epidemic nfantile paralysis which is' prevail- { ing in New York and Brooklyn. The disease has made its appearance in | this state and the two cases have been reported to the state board of health, one from New Haven, the other from Stamford. The board has distributed a great deal -of literature in regard to the board have reason to believe that the health authorities of towns and physicians generally are alive to the danger to which the state is ex- posed by reason of-its contiguity to New York and there is an evident de- | sire to co-operate with the state au- thorities in doing everything possible to protect Connecticut from the dis- case. Washington, July The general service board of the United States public health service met in confer- ence today to discuss ways and means of combatting the epidemic of in- fantile paralysis in New York and de- termine the part it shall take in aiding New York state and city authorities. The epidemic now has claimed if lives. At the suggestion of FHealth Commissioner Emerson, Acting Police Commissioner Godley ordered sixteen | playgrounds closed until the epidemic had ceased. The summer opening of twenty playground streets today and nineteen tomorrow was postponed. A score of extra clerks were put to | work today at the City Health depart- ment and a general call for nurses was issued. GERMAN FLEET AT SEA Made Announcement That British Ship Has Been Seized by High Sea Tleet and Held As Prize. Berlin, July 7, via London, m.—Official announcement wa today that the British steamship Les- tris was held up by German warships near the English coast and seized as a prize. The statement says the Lestris was held up “by a portion of the German high sea force.” The Lestris is a steamship of 1,- 384 tons gross. owned in Cork. The announcement follows: “The British steamship Lestris, from Tdiverpool, has been held up by a portion of the German higl: sea forces which were not far trom the English coast at the time the Lestris was seized. 3:03 p. made This is the second exploit of the kind on the part of the Germans on June 16 the British steamship Brus- i sels was captured by stroyers and taken with her passen- gers into Zebrugge. HUGHES AT Bridgehampton, Charles H. Hughes, the republican presidential nominee, and his wife, prepared to leave their home this aft- ernoon for Roslyn, T. L., where they will be tendered a reception »y the Woman's Auxiliary of the Hughes Al- liance. RECEPTION. N.X., July OCOUPATION OF SANTIAGO. Washington, July 7.—Arrangements for peaceful occupation of Santiago Santo Domingo, by Americs under Col. Pendleton, | to_the navy department today Admiral Caperton wer, norted hy Rear WEATH Har(sc July 7. | Hartford and vicinity, fair to- night 2nd Saturday: no¢ much | change in temperature. e A S There were | the epidemic and the officials of | German de- | ines | GERMAN LINE RETREATS BEFORE RUSSIAN DRIVE: GREAT BATTLE IN FRANCH Points Further West REQUEST ACCOUNTING OF JAY GOULD ESTATE Was Worth $72,000,000 at Time of Filing 24 Years Ago. New York, July 7.—The supreme court here has under cansideration a request from the executors under the will of the late Jay Gould for an ac- counting of his estate, a construction of the will and that the court advise them whether they shall continue to hold the securities constituting the estate as a whole or whether the estate shall be divided among the heir The executors are Gould, Edwin Gould, Howard Gould, sons of the late Jay Gould and Mrs. Helen Gould Sheppard, his daughter. | They were selected as executors ta ad- minister the estate during the lives of Jay Gould’s six children, but because cf the increase of the estate through | additions by purchase and owing to ! the fact that there are now several grandchildren who have become heirs ta the property, an accounting is desired for the first time since the | filing of the will, twenty-four years ago. | It was estimated that Jay Gould’'s estate was worth $72,000,000 at the | time of his death. | | | | George Jay TWO AMERICANS INJURED BY SHELL Members of American Ambulance by Fragments i | | | | Corps on Verdun Fron Hit | i | Paris, July 7.—A six inch shell which burst near the Richard Norton section of the American Automobile | Ambulance corps on the Verdun front wrecked one of the ambulance cars | and fragments of the shell struck the two American drivers. Harry Howard Hollinshead of Sparta, N. J. suffered a flesh wound in the left forearm, and Jacob Wendell of New York, former- ly of Sandridgebury, England, was wounded in the back. None of the French wounded in the ambulance were struck by the shell fragments. The Norton section of the American ambulance was fiilled with French wounded at the time. Wendell's mother was Miss Kendall of Washington, D. C. DEFENSE RESTS IN ORPET TRIAL ‘Jud;’;t- Rules Against Recall of De- fendant by State for Further xamination. Waukegan, Ill, July 7.—The de- fense, after introducing documentary evidence bearing upon the Wisconsin statute governing the sale of poisons rested today in the case of Will H. | Orpet, the college student, charged | with the murder of Marion Lambert. Attorney David Joslyn of the prose- cution said that he wanted Orpet re- called for further cross examination | with regard to Celesta Youker the young woman to whom he was re- ported engaged. James Wilkerson Potter of the defense objected and Judge Donnelly ruled that the de- fendant could not be recalled. and Ralph F. CONTINUE DEBATE. House Will Vote On Revenue Bill On Monday, Ts Plan. Washington, July 7.—The house to- day continued debate which started vesterday on the administration revenue bill. Beginning tomorrow the ure will be taken up section by section for discussion. A final vote for med is set Monday. $35.000 ROBBERY, York, Mrs Keene Taylor, of the late | James R. Keene, and horse- man, reported to the police today that jewels valued at more than $5,000 Wwere stolen from her summer cottage at Cedar Hurst, N. Y. some time | 1ast nignt. July 7 daughter financier New Dorothy A Successes of Czar's Men Cause Withdrawal of German Defense f on Wholesale Scale--Allies Sustain Furious Attacks in Vain Attempts by Teutons to Recover Lost Ground in Northern France Russians Capture Large Number of Prisoners and Gu —New Drive Launched By British Achieves Resul —Germans on Offensive Near Ancre River—Verd Is Quiet. A German retreat all along the line of the front Russia from Riga to Volhynia is reported today. The unofficial news to this effect comes from Petr grad through Rome. It declares that a triple defeat for t Germans in Riga, Kolki and Baranovichi sectors causg them to begin a movement of the whole front westwrd. Petrograd has recently announced successes in gions mentioned in the Rome despatch. The report frg the vicinity of Kolki, in the crucial Volhynia sector, # corded the capture by the Russians of more than 7,5 prisoners, half a dozen cannon and twenty-three chine guns. A great battle is raging along virtually the entire frg of the British offensive in northern France. At daybreak the British launched a new drive e of Albert. Important tactical successes were gained several sectors, London announces. The Germans attacked in force near the River An and north of Fricourt. The chief advantages gained by British were in vicinity of Ovillers, Contalmaison and La Boiselle. Meeanwhile the French, both north and south of Somme in the field of the great allied offensive are resf] on the ground won in their notable advances of the g week, There is a comparative lull in the fighting about dun so far as the infantry is concerned. SURVIVORS OF CAROLIN ARRIVE AT NEW YORK Twenty-six of Crew of Boat Crushed in Ice Fields on Steamer Czar. London Reports. London, July 7, 11:56 a. m ond phase of the great battle western front has now begu artillery has been brought up positions and again is batter] German defenses. The bomba extends as far north as La Bas ‘Armentieres and according latest unofficial advices, is larly intense. British long guns are shelling the Germal tions and the roads in their until the Infantry again lea! trenches it will be uncertain the next attacks are to be la! In addition to inflicting Iq the Germans in men, guns an tory, the Anglo-French offe New York, July 7.—Twenty-six members of the crew of the steam- ship Carolin which went to pieces in the ice fields of the White sea on June 10, reached New York today among the 148 passengers aboard the steamship Czar, of the Russtan Volun- teer fleet. The Czar had an unevent- ful voyage from Archangel. The survivors of the Carolin, which is owned in Boston, left New York early last winter bound for Archangel with a cargo of automobile parts, fish plates and ralls. The survivors to- day told of being marooned for four days in the ice fields of the White sea on a wrecked vessel. Just be- fore the Carolin broke in two the sur- vivors related, a Russian ice breaker reached the scene and rescued 26 of the crew. It was said that a score perished The Carolin was built in Whitby, England in 1889 Her tonnage w 1,414 tons. LEFT HAND BLOWN OFF Privateein Co. M Is Victim of Mys- reported to have compelled withdraw some of their for the Verdun front. Consequently it is said in that the army which for nel months withstood the Germa in that region will have som from continual fighting. Austrians Menaced. On the eastern front the who now apparently have supply of guns and ammunif} their adversaries, seem to one phase to the next witho mission. General Letchitzk which conquered Bukowina the railway between Dela Jorosmezo, is advancing in completely to overcome the forces on that front. General Kaledines is con deliver his heavy strokes ag Austrians and Germans whi deavoring to kcep him fro With these operations in f the Russians to the nortl augurated an offensive fro Baranovichi. Along the end of the line, from Riga 4 a great bombardment ha while from a point east of Baranovichi artillery pri was followed by infantry which the Russians report prisoners, is terious Accident—Claims He Was Assaulted by Strangers, Nogales, Arizona, July 7.—Private Charles Nelson, Company M, 12th In- left hand, night in a raysterious explosion which followed, he said, an attack by two unidentified persons. The surgeons who attended | Near Smorl f Rt 8a1d that! nothing! less) than the|tod GEImaxs are engaged 1§ ; { struggle explosion of a bomb, stick of mite, or pointblank discharge double barrel shot gun could caused the injury. The alleged assault took place about 100 yards outside the lines of the 12th Infantry camp, on a well traveled road. The explasion was heard for | nearly mile. fantry, which today is minus a was blown off last many counter-attack on, also the dyna- of a have Russians it move Rumania ing some at Saloniki The Near Eag csted in the lLattles thio Caucasus and Mesopotamia) which was adv has fallen under pred fo but Sea "to ns arey is by the slan army ward Bagc eighty miles great Turkish from the Black frontier, the to their own statements, holding their own | No news has been recety from the British army if a | GANNET SUNK. 50 a nnet, July 7, in.—The Russis steamship Ga of Lon She was unfitted London, British has been sunk. on The Gannet was 245 feet of 1,112 tons gross. long and (Continued On Tenth