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

= NEW BRITAIN HERA HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS LD NEWrBRITAIN CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916. —TWELVE PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS. ESTABLISHED R R. SITUATION HOPELESS; BOTH SIDES STANDING FIR ALL LOCAL TRAINMEN T0 STRIKE I NEED BE .~ Employes’ Committee In- structed Not fo Listen To Proposals Involving Arbitration Program Have Serious Effects on New Britain. Should pending plans of the nation- JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS PROBABLE al administration for an amicable set- tlement of the threatened nation-wide rallroad strike fail the calling of such a strike would prove almost disastrous for New Britain, it was stated by railroad men and manufacturers to- day. All railroad workers employed on { the New York, New Haven and Hart- : | ford lines in this city are members May Be Conducted by Federal Re- | of the union and some time ago added " J . s e | to that of over 400,000 of cefvership Until Disputing Factions | O/ Y0 0 (0 o 0 OV e to | abide by the decision of their officials i and to s e as one man if need Le Washington, Aug. 28.—President|to get their eight hour day demand. Wilson’s negotiations for averting the | There is no local union headquarter OO e v strike | the Hartford branch being the near. & tisn ith n Tress o o5t one, and froms lotal unlon mien o B e LS el BAUE 2 M O G it G aGiany R b s e utives stand- | definite nature could be learned today. D it oneeding the eight| The men state that they will strike inggfirmgaka nst oo & tors | With the rest of the workers through- hour day and the brotherhood leaders| o'y " ountry 1f it comes to & show i anding out against arbitrating | & ! S 5 BRI stan e N a8 down between the raflroad and 1l h £ preventing a tie-up of | 10%1 zelirosdEandgruo K thoptonoRo L, employes. Just what effect such a the country’s transpartation systems B Oyes) 5 st a cemed to lie With congress strike would have on New Britain is Just exactly what can be done none P}:““‘?’;‘;‘“f’f‘ el ‘:‘]“ railroadimeon . leaders them. | themselves are unable to do more of the congressional lea s 2 celves seems to know. Conferences|than guess. — They state that they smong them and with President Wil- “;“!1 hwmv'achm “1ML< ;‘\'entduazlln;f‘g and con which began last night were con~ | abide by the orders issued to them. tinued today, and the president post- It i fl"ncv«ylh believed in railroad W oned his engagement with the rail-| circles, however, that if a strike i3 P called all railroad workers will re- way executives from 10 o’clock this 1 roorning until 2:30 o'clock this after- ceive strict orders to keep away from Toon to glve him mare time for con- | Fallroad property during the strike. ferences with leaders in congress, Tt is also thought, that in pursuance The situation was viewed on alt| With the custom to .be followed sides as the most perilous since tha 1h_‘]”l°u{1h0"t 'hodroumlry, a fow trains : b & ol o.] Will be manned and run as per ,’;;?t;f:g,‘;ns{,fh?,’;n pt,f\"d(,‘g?::d e | schedule. This would include Tnited ministration leaders was in the possi- | States mall trains, trains carrying food “‘Bility of getting the brotherhood men | Stuffs necessary to the health and to glve more time to continue the ne- | life of certain sections and possibly Eoliatibne: a straggling passenger train to care A jaint session of congress to hear|for emergency cases. Otherwise, it Is {he president’s statement of the situa- [ thought all traffic will be tied up in | tion was in prospect, following Mr, | case of a strike. | Wilson’s visit to the capitol last night to confer with Senator Kern, the ma- _jority leader. " Arbitration Forbidden Topic, The course of the brotherhoods was in the hands of commlittee of twenty-four, whom the entire com- mittee af 640, before leaving for their homes vesterday, instructed to listen to no proposal involving arbitration of the eight hour basic day. Strike ®orders were being circulated, to await telegraphic release. The counter proposal for arbitra- tion was to be made to the president today by the railway executives as their first definite answer to his sug- gestion of a week ago for concession of the eight hour day with ten hours’ pay and arbitration of other issues. soon as the employes' committeo Apas rejected the executives' counter proposal the president is expected to set In mation the congressional wheels through the leaders in both houses. To this end, Senator Newlands, chairman of the interstate commerce committee, and Secretary Lane, after extended conferences with the Presi- dent, worked through a great part of “iast night framing bills affecting the railroad situation. Adoption of ILegislation Similar to That in Effect in Canada Would Prevent Strike or Lockout—Roads vote their Can Reach Agrecment, ilw. HUNGRY, SHOOTS HUSBAND ‘Woman Claims She and Five Children = Were Not Provided for—Victim in Hospital, May Die. Zara by at 28.—Dick lett lung Willimantic, Aug. was shot through the his wife Mary today. He is the hospital and may die. The wife claims that Zara had not given her food for their five children or money to get the necessaries of life. Zara says his wife was angry because -he remonstrated with her as to alleged actions with a boarder, and after an argument she went into a room and came out with the weapon. Threé shots from the 32-callber gun were fired. One went into Zara's lung, the second into the kitchen floor and the third wounded Mary in the arm. Af- ter her wound was dressed she was Jocked up at police headquarters showing little concern about the af fair. The United Charities organiza- tion took charge of the five chil- dren. A neighbor’s little girl notified the police about trouble in the Zara tene- ment in School House Lane. A pa- trolman found Zara sitting in a chair outside the house weak from loss of blood. He had rushed out after be- ing shot. Mrs., Zara could not tell how she happened to wound herself. No formal charge is made against her as the medical examiner with Zara's ante-mortem statement is awaiting the outcome of the man’s wound. OLD GLORY FLOATS AGAIN, May Adopt Canadian Plan. It was reported the considering asking both sides to pos pone action for certain period Meanwhile it might be possible to en- act legislation similar to th anadian law, providing for investigation of Adabor disputes by a commission and forbldding strikes or lockouts pending Inquiry. This s being dis- cussed seriously, with the possibility that it would be put into immediate effect, thus preventing a strike with- out adequate public investigation. President Wilson early today sent word to the committee of eight rail- road exccutives who will formally wpresent the railroads’ counter pro- posals, that he would receive them at 2:3 ock this afternoon instead of 10 o'clock this morning. This w. determined upon in order that the President might hold further confer- ences on legislation on the strike situ- ation for presentation to The four brotherhood %3 statement replying to President of the Pennsylvania, who last made an announcement that rather than give up arbitration the roads preferred to face a strike. The state- ment charged the Pennsylvania with Inconsistency in that two ago It fought the efforts of its shopmen to organize and arbitrate. It also de- lared that as the controlling interest five smaller roads it has refused them representation on the managers’ conference committee and that if arbi- tration were agreed upon it would not apply to these roads. Resigned to remaining in Washing- ton to undertake any legislation in the railroad crisis, memb: of con- gress today were studying the problem (Continued on Eleventh Page.) president w: Stars and Stripes Restored to P: Trade. ific San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 28. American flag was restored to trans-Pacific service yesterday the Pacific M liner uador de- parted for the Far East with more than five thousand tons of freight sind a full complement af p The cignificance of the occasion was recognized by the government and the battleship Oregon and the United Flates quarantine steamer Ar onaut accompanied the liner through the Golden Gate This was the iory of the liner has 1 sea ~The the when engers. congre heads issued Rea night first time port that a n given a in the hi commereial escort ta vears navy THAT ZIMMERMAN DEAL, Chicago, Aug. 28.—The transfer of Heinie Zimmerman, third baseman of the Cubs to another club in the tional league, is again under cor eration today. Three clubs. Boston, New York and Philadelphis have made bids for Zimmerman’s services according to Manager Tinker of the Cubs. Tinker says he expects to ob- tain two infielders and pitcher in the trade rs ED. WIEGAND ENDS LIFE BY HANGING Supt. of Streets Had Been De- spondent for Several Weeks BODY FOUND IN CELLAR Bed GERMAN ATTACKS ON SOMME FAIL Charges Shattered Against French Line at Fleury 'BRITISH MAKE GAINS Rose from During | - Petrograd Reports Teutons Repulsed Noose Rafter— Swung from in East—Berlin Says Allic As- Out by Repairing Damage Done ilts Are Iruitless— ish Drive by Storm Yesterday. in Persia Held Up. Early this morning, after a night spent in part in performing the duties of his office and in part in restle | tossing about his bed, Edward “ | | Ger- the night an- Paris, Aug. 28, Noon.—The ns made several attack on French positions at Fleury I but were repulsed says —tads nouncement of the war office, - " 5 Wiegand, superintendent of streets, went to the collar of his home at 71 Wallace street, got a block and tackle | St from the collection of tools used in ! TLondon, Aug. 28, 4: p. m.—No his work and hung himself from a | large actions on the Somme front are reported in the official announcement today, although the British made further progr Aug Via London, Attacks made by German the northern front, near Lake and south the Taranocichi-Luninicts railvoad, were repelled, the war office announced to- | aa In Galicia, narth of Mariampol, | the Russians captured a wooded posi- tion. Petrograd, o5 3-20 p. m.- I troops at two i part the Koldyche points on of Russian of Via London, nch troops last attacks on the | rlin, Aug. 28, p. m.—British and Fi night made repeated German positions in the region of the River on the western front, says the official statement issued today by the German army headquarters staff. The attacks fail the state- ment says, partly after hand to hand fighting and partly on account of the German counter attacks. Semme Washington, Aug. 28.—The Turkish —— | drive towards Persia, aimed appar- cntly to outflank the Russian armies opcrating in Armenia, is reperted in despatehes received here today to Fave been held up at a point desig- nated as Woe, by heavy Russian Ay CDWARD Wi JGAND. rafter. 2 body was found by his down by his daughter, hours to save his life. “There is no doubt that deliberate | suicide was the cause of Mr Wicgand's d stated Medical aminer 131 circum points Mr. o’clock custom looked where not At 0 this his cut by morning wife and too late, re- ath K Ivery that.” nd was first his wife Monda GLOOM SHROUDS GREECE 2 1 Wi when on missed at as is her | mornings She | S Lo, | Constantine’s Subjects See Macedonia in Hands of Bulaars and Northern | & Epirns Under Haliann Sword | and end frightened she called a secured a pair of scissors and cut down the bod Together the wife | and daughter lowered the corpse into | i | \then Gon, A 28, T:45 a of the f 11 a ., Via 1 3 m.—The Jandir irst contingent of Italian troops Chimara (a small seaport of Al- I'nia, on the Strait of Otranto) causes gloom throughaut all Greece. | The Greeks now not only eastern | i of the room Thoron daughter who a chair. Dr. Mulligan was called in. He advised ling tho medical ex- aminer at once as Mr. Wiegand had | been dead for some timo. | Despondent After Hard Work. Tt is impossible determine hour of the suicide or the r beyond that of despondency. Last eve- ning, during the storm, Mr. Wiegand received several telephone calls com- plaining of trees down. He had heen around the all day and was seemingly in his usual frame of mind. | He attended to the city work return- | ing at about 7 p. m. At that time he | appeared morose, for some unknown | reason. He took a hot bath and went | to bed. The family forebore to ques- | tian him seeing that he was not feel- | ing well. He went to sleep early and | asleep when his wife retired at | It is said that a sister, who rs. noticed a light in the | about 3 o'clock when she | | Macedonia in the hands of the Bul- | ars, whom they expelled from there | three years ago, hut northern Epirus in the hands of the Ttalians. i Fallowing the landing of the Ttalian troops the Gr civil officers were temporarily relieved of their fune- tions and the te ph wires \\'(‘l'w;‘ cut, but this da was | vaired. M. Pachitch, the premier, has gone his respects to FLEE BRIDGEPORT JAIL Two Prisoners Put to Work in Quarry | to the | 1l motive age soon re- house former to Chalkis Peter. Serbian to pay King Climb High Fence and Escs cellar at happened The Uniforms, to look from the window. ed left no note or made any explanation of his act. It is said by several of his friends about the | city that he had been despondent for | several weeks, | When the body was found it w tired in and a night only. The rope from the falls wr recognized by any member family and it is presumed Wi one that was used work, which he haa from his automobile. Shoc Wicgand b Bric Aug. T.oland, ing a fifteen tence for theft, and scrving ten days escaped from the 1s at- | carly today. The men, each of whom had in jail four days, were sent to of Guarry to work. They climbed over : that ten foot fence in the rear of the jail | and ran down North avenue, They vere wearing the blue uniforms of | prisoners and Sheriff Simeon E, Pease, immediately sent out an alarm, to apprehend them by night ‘port ser Aecd ward sen- ays Joseph Dineen, for drunkenness county trousers in his possibly taken Priends at News. who . expect about the grieved to long been cratic with and business naturally He had Charter tution in urer friends were had host of REIUG PTURED. city, whom hear of act. e warm-hearted der number connections create been a member Oak, I, of A this city, 11 last twent previous to {hat | the chairs of t1 member of the New Britain lod formerly he was a the " r MroW life a Qa ward in | wits whi 1le and of fraternal that would acquaintances. of Court its insti- | as tre Cermans Fleel Tntes Are Caught in Hiding, ment Camp many Amherst, N, ture of four G vho escaped wma | eamp here 1 snilof by He was a ) afficialy mmittee of | bad Aug. rman prisoners from the W and ards, was The cap- of war internment the killing announced camp The hidden in nearby quarric was | three were arrested A lition to this | August Meyer, one of those captured the Ited Men, | #fter tunncling out of the camp last ocicty danuary, was traveling by night when hi. The man who was killed had empted enter a detached cook Fouse to faod only (o find | ruards concealed there. He ran when | to surrender, it w id. and | through the head of 1 rved 8= fiv for the another i throt il today men where fourth, S0 1l ki ane esquire n oad ilinted with md Concordia came Whlic fivst into p the councilman from 1o 899, He chosen a e chosen served o term obtain lerman, 906 the | was an o filled sident then L pos was then board of public such until 1909, when he Two years ago he was superintendent of streets ployed at rary foreman for The dec last September on un ordered as pr of shot works, continu e signed | e e He was em WEATHER, Lander & Clark’s as = time ord 28. Hariford and vicinity: this afternoon; Tuesday fair, e Tor 1ow- clearing 1sed vears of age born in this | (Continued on Sccond Pagc | widow ot » RUMANIA DECLARES WAR O] AUSTRIA-HUNGARY; BERLI] BREAKS WITH NEWEST AL Entente Strengthen By Action Which A lows Russians Accd to Attack on Bulga RECORD OF EU 1914, o July 28—Austria on Serbia. August [—Germany on Russia. August 3—Germany on Belgium and France. i August 4—France on Ger- many August on Germany. August 5—Austria on Rus- | sia. August Germany. August 6—Serbia o many. August ROPEAN WAR November 7—Belgium and Serbia on Turkey. 1915. May 23—Italy on Austria. June 3—San Marino on Austria. August 22—Italy on Tur- key. October 14—Bulgaria Serbia. October 15—Great Britain on Bulgaria. tober 16—France Bulgaria. ctober 18 — Russia Bulgaria. October 19—Italy on Bul- || garia, GERMANY DECLARES WAM a Lond has declard 4-—Great Britain 7:05 p. m. war on Rumania, on Berlin, Aug. 28, via Ld don, 1:45 m.—Ruma declared war on Aust | Hungary on Sunday eveni lit is announced officially he on : The announcement fi lows:—“The Rumanian gd ernment yesterday eveni declared war on Austr Hungary. 1916. | “The Federal Council 8 — Germany i been convoked for an im: | diate sitting.” 6— Belgium on on 8 — Monic on - Austria. August 12—Great Britain on Austria. August 12—France Austria. August 12—Montenegrago on Germany. August 23—Japan on Ger- many. August Japan. August Belgium, November 2—Russia Turkey. November 5—Great Brit- on Marc Portugal. March 10—Portugal Germany. March Portugal. n A Bucharest | terday statea | Rumania had 15. — Austria ( GHlses the all despatch received 3 that King Ferdinand convened a confere| all the palit] idea of ascertall sections of pul 25 — Austria on of represc of with of parties | the views August 28—Italy on G | ¢pinion, | The Wolff bureau, which makes many. 3 | announcement that Rumania has d AuguSt 28—Rumania | her fortunes with the entente alll Austria-Hungary is a semi-official German news agel which frequently is used as an avel ain and France on Tur- August 28—Germany | for maiing pubile omunts i key. Rumania. “ ments, e GREEKS IN. PANIC CHEERS FOR VENIZELOS | such ac niation nis of Kavala and Eunvirons Are 28 — Austria on on Wolff tion by to it in Rumania to join in the either bureau has announ Rumania as is at the despatch f; the fourtee war. Her ing of the powers by great entirely but of the fd ug ate: the B while the its base at Salonf their 1 ol | vention tente allies or the been awaited with concern | s'nce the beginning of the flict. This is duec not Rumania’s mili strength te the strategic advantages #eographical position and that that her entry into the opens to the Russian army through Rumania to attack garians from the north, lied army, havin ittacks them th on the side Temarkable Demonstration by 50,000 central Greeks When mier Advises Them to Urge Action Via Lon- Fifty thou- Greeks joined in a demonstra- | tion before the residence of Venizelos, jthe former premier, today and cheered him with boundless en- thusiasm when he urged them ta send committee to King Constantine to urge him to support the present gov- | crnment and prepare the army for “a g possible rupture of existing condi- reetss < | tion Addressing the ititude, Venizelas said: owner: i | soc THaL Last week 1 summoned you to £ Bulge . demonstration to show 1t do. Now I exhort yau to a com- the ; that 1liftee before the to him: by Advance o Pleci ( i rore or Bul Iy aders, Aug m i ! sand wala e, Al the Bulgaria Doxato, the of tics of which the Greeks Bulgarians in the war, is digious. Kavala is the the: amazing nes of disorder. sands of refugees are pouring into this port from the hinterland and crowding the steep, narrow streets un- til they arc imp: The are littered with every kind of hous hold g by the flecing Ivancing ia ie. ndoned by overy city by wall hoats n vmiesslly fect of 0 occupation of scenc alleged atroci- the pro- ter of Thou- | ceused last a an Germ south. Mobili with 3,000 an to | £50,000, often ha { one of the most and dfsciplined in Burope, i however, it has been stated that | manian officers are ill-trained and uf rem ssable. ion Complete pulatic tim m ods fAung before the as before a plag ‘hese goods were ¢ fugitives their d means Of from the transport are inadequatc dan rwvay 1 a ATy been thoroughly you v desc send king and to say upon escape i o persons v ere wauld be a Loty SO EN R Vesscl ro. | constitutl The price | Prove of these facts | telegraph you that they | fellow you, because they GERMAN PRESS APATEETIC |*“%iciihar et mevtest majesty, you we renaded the vie- worn Um of ho p you erously overloaded and childr about the seeking a wi German victory could mnad the n, are rowing harbor, th ylum ahoard any its destination or the Completc prevails, Some Ruman rticipatic Lave asserted that she many 1,000,000 men. ition of her army has besn months and a few d iolate the mobil peop o V'S P The not ap- re ready thinlk servists to rdless of i of s panic - bil pr ress for s ““Jlections are necessary, but you it was reparted to be complete, | miust not use your influence politically | The motive which prompts Rumaal to enter the war is the satisfaction aspirations,” the { Tecause the results would be destruc- ! ¥ails to | tive. ‘The present government is ab- | her “national Na- | sclut necessary. The premier | 'V Take | tAlexander Zamis) an excellent | liberal leader | man should the govern- | tional instinct , via London | n;ent Political You | national expansior Virtually all the morning | must show the powers | half of Bukowin the notuble cxception of benevolent neutrality and exer- | Jand, the Rums comments on Ttaly's the army in preparation for a | Nant race. It declaration of war Germany. | jossible rupture of existing canditions, | Manians live in The Deutsche tung de- | The liberal party i umania has been credited with clared that interest in such a dac #ards your position ished ambition to an pion always has been exceptio 1= i e e pravinces and at the same tim small in Germany and Wit GUBIIET e o e e “liberate” the Rumanians now undi question, will | ebly accepted; otherwise I Austr domination, The Morgen | best. Rumania also cov an empty intended to appear extreme heroic but actually tragico-comical Russi; and, to be received with an indifferent taken from her by the Berlin treaf shrug of the shoulders, of 1878. Reports have stated th The Kruz Zeitung Russia alsa has consented to restq) given way to the Bessarabia as & war prize, with master population of 2,000,000, mostly The Post sees only manians, and an area of 20,000 Italy’s “blackmail desorib Jonescu, Rumany the “policy of Cancisely, this mea In the south » Austrian cro arve the dom is sald 4,000,000 Transylvania, aration of War By Italy Ixcitement—Interest Ebb. 28, 4 p. m use of as tion at Low N You full now give authority. entente Eerlin. 7:40 a. m pavers, with the Vorwaerts, most cise R ag: mi > conf leng these che declared now, be favor- continue will do my Post calls Ttaly’s s ian *tion s Bessarabia, th southwestern province @ on the Black Sea, which gesture TLE IRISH QUF Aug. TO SE Londo: Strong efforts ar the parliamen sumption of | ment of the Trish question, according another evidence | (4 reports in Irish political circles ! DR. WoODDY 1 Halifax, N. S., poinment of Dr, dinott fellow in university, to a housgie university | toaay. TION. m.— during the re- settle- to recess tiations made for fe has i Italy of 1y pressure e R of miles. e TON The ap- Wooddy u- at Princeton chair at Dal announced here Has Extensive Border, Rumania has a border as the whole Russian front on which to choose attack In wt blow m by her troops through the PLOT TO KIDNAP HARRIMAN BOY AND HOLD HIM FOR BIG RANSOM e men, 1 uthori- plot vear nan nd Aug C LT history similar The | line Leandre heen to a despatch from ! to Llovds Shipping was saved London, teamship s long estern wal point o directior onl Greek cording her Spain, The sunk Valeneie ney. milita her indicated was Lt crew firs me il de to and lvar Austria T Ty foree ttempt where { other hand mulating mili prepared to fron Gates ches the Bulgaria s tioned 100,000 or the southern hanl rrotect her norther Rumanian invasion Powerful i ost the lies |t lleged to have con- | der Anthony chief the third man denied any knowledge abduction plat. Harriman and Roland, it were to have arrived at the upper Snake river 18 but is McLoy, are a el to the St Doise, Tdaho, Aug aid by St. Anthony, Idaho, ties to have been implicated abduct Roland Harriman, son Mr E. H. H the railroad magnate, him for a om in the f of the T mountains ted last Anthony ta word rc here men, Mark Tufkin fossed pol Cuzell alleged Mrs, id, Ralph of the more n fr in a but g 16 rr Danube to 10 a, ola ontier from of of was | their 1 ahout 1fluences on t central have been influence part of. and the exerted at decision in ran st o 1ho ght a ceived A hold nesses arre cording the of powe | ranch o - [ August e Twao | western visit because of the threatened and | railroad strike, were entente St ac- | postponed her | Eseniinued on Eleventh Page.)