New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL “| LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD — | HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876. ALLIES MENAGED IN REAR BY HOSTILITY OF GREEK PEOPLE Constanting's Army May Attack When Von Mackensen Hurls Troops from North DANGER APPRECIATED BY MILITARY EXPERTS i political Rumanians Reported to Have Lost 70,000 Mcn and 184 Cannon Since First of Month—Little of Wallacha | to Remain in Defenders’ Hands Before Attempt Is Made to Stop German Juggernaut, ‘ The situation in Greece is not only h%{lin of decided political inter but potentially of marked military impor- tance, in connection with the supposed urpose of the Central powers to turn jimportant sections of Field Marshall von Mackensen's huge army in Ru- mania upon the Saloniki | Jarmy. . Correspondents in Greece re- | Entente’s pdrt a persistently hostile attitude by | iConstantine and the ftoward the efforts are. being Greek rovalists - Entente and declare made gather in the Larissa region for to a strong army an attack upon the Entente force from he rear simultaneously by the Teutonic allies from the north, British military writers call atten- tfon to these contingencies, and de- | cisive action with regard to Greece is Jurged in the interest of strategy and the safety of the Entente forces in Macedonia. Late reports from the Rumanian ampaign reflect the continued retire- | ment of the Russo-Rumanian forces | in eastern Wallachia with the figures | of captures of men and materials by | ‘the invaders constantly growing. | How far the advance of Field Mar- shall von Mackensen may take him before the Entente forces are ablé to reconstitute themselves sufficiently to make an effort to hold him is by no means clear. It is considered probable, however, that not much, if any of Wallachia will be left in Rumanian hands by the timé a stable defensive line is reached. That there is every intention on the part of the Russians to maintain firmly the line along the western Mol- davian frontier, to safeguard that province, is indicated by today’s re- port from Petrograd of a offensive in the Putna Valley region, on the frontier east of Kedzi Vasar- | hely. Little of interest is occurring on the Franco-Belgian front, | i | Russians Capture 500 Prisoners. Petrograd, Dec. 9, Via London.— Russian troops on the northern Ru- manian front attacked the Teutonic forces in the Putna valley region yes- gerday heights, the war office announces “We took 500 prisoners including ten officers, six machine guns, two bomb mortars and one cannon,” the state- ment says, Admits Russian Gain, by Wireless to Sa were made yes- terday by the Rus in the Carpa- thian forests, the war office an- nounces. Narth of Dorma Watra and | south of the Trotus valley the Rus- slans gained ground at the cost of heavy losses. In western Rumania a more prisoners have been taken, well as many cannon. are retreating rapidly. ber 1 the Rumanians than 70,000 men and Berlin Berlin, ville.—Strong The Rumanians have lost more 184 cannon, Russo-Rumanians Retiring. Petrograd, Dec. 9, via the province of Wallach n official statement issued to- | the Rumanian troops under un- ceasing hostile pressure continue to retire to the eastward. In conse- quence of this, it is added, the Rus- slan troops who are on the left flank of the Rumanians also retiring. London.—Tn are v MEAT SCARCITY CLAIMED, Local Butchers Complain to Commis- sioner Phelps—Blame Inspection. Jeffrey O. Phelps, J of domestic animals in , commissioner Hartfard, complaints from local in which of beef was the topic of their lis- tened to two butchers yesterday, fearcity talk. The disgruntled oneg seemed to place thei of the inspection method in force here. Owing to the ablishment of municipal abbatoir many Peef to local dealers and responsibility of the result of spection. Commissioner Phelps formead the local men that he had ljurisdicuon in the taking animals that come evademned. with attacks | sound | | The choice of Balfour aroused Russian | and dislodged them from two | thousand | as | Since Decem- | { the | | - chief objection at the door | a of the out- slde cattle dealers will not risk selling the | Wise the in- in- no | matter, except that representatives from his office inspect under the super- vision of the department or have becn | the count STRONG ENGLISH CABINET FOREGAST Lloyd George Attemptmg to Select| Best Men Obtainahle \LIBERAL IN OPPOSITION Suggestion of Sir Edward Carson For Admiralty Fails to Arouse Enthusi- asm—Country to Be Reorganized for Active Prosccution of War. T.ondon, Dec. 9, 7 a. m.—The day's events consisted of lcabinet making by Premier Lloyd Geonge solemn post mortem over the members of the Liberal cabinet will meet the a business gov- coalition | a. | and its gn by party. Lloyd George's be non-partisan and will popular demand for | ernment. It will not be cabinet In the sense of Asquith’s ad- | ministration because Mr. Asquith had even Na- a a | the co-operation of all parties, including practically the Irish ‘ tionalists, | The Liberal inquest at the Reform that the old Liberal | constitute an opposition in the of although opposition will be one of helpful criticism rather | than of hostility. ~The newspapers are devoting themselves to framing possible cabinets and incidentally are so wrapped up in the burning ques- ions as to whether Lloyd George can be called a conspirator and whether a government, consisting largely of men unused to political life can be as efficlent as one recruited from the tra- ditional ruling class, that they give comparatively little attention to the | events of the war. | The surprise of the day was the | announcement made by Viscount Grey in the Liberal conference that A. J. { Balfour would succeed him in the foreign office, with Lord Robert Cecil continuing as assistant. Yesterday Lord Curzon—qualified by former service in the foreign office and with a brilllant record as Indian viceroy— wag thought assured of the honor. in- stant protest from papers which rated him as one of the aged ‘“wait and see'” school. club decided Jeaders will party mons, house com- the | RAILROADS TRYING TORUINOWN CREDIT missioners Discloses Plot to Force Govt. Ownership FEDERAL INCORPORATION T0 EMASCULATE STATES If They Were Really Acting terests of Public They Would Stop Complaining and Provide Equip- ment Public Is Demanding, He Claims—Talk of Forty-Ninc Masters Simply to Tickle an Ear. Washington, Dec. 9.—Railroads were accused of trying to ruin their own credit and laying the foundation for federal ownership, by Max Thelen, president of the National Association of Railway resum- ing his testimony today before the con- gressional railroad investigating com- mittee. “The railroad pessimism,” commissioners, in are in a hysteria of “With earnings beyond all previous records and con- stantly growing larger, the railroads seem to be engaged in the absurd task he said. of trying to ruin their own credit. If they were really acting in the public interest they be, they would stop complaining about public would devote them- suppl the cars, equip- ment and terminal facilities which the public urgently requires. Brazen Conspiracy. “Federal incorporation of the rail- roads as proposed by the carriers has avowed object the taking from the people of the states their power to regulate the purely state rates, ser- vice, equipment and facllities of prac- tically. every railroad in the country. The railroad plan brazenly provides that by direct compulsion to be ex- erted by the federal government new as claim to regulation and selves to ing Bonar Law For Exchequer. Law, for is a popular selection, Bonar chancellor of the | exchequer, s | he combines business and political ex- | perience as do few other public men. ‘.l‘}qual approval is given to Lord Der- | by as head of the war office and Dr. Addison as the minister of munitions, .but the proposal of Sir Edward Car- | son for the admiralty finds less favor. ‘Lord Curzon will be leader of the | | government in the house of lords. Colonel Winston Churchill apparently is to remain out in the cold. This nucleus, with a number of practical busin men in other po- sitions, is considered to make a strong | shqwing. Premier Lloyd George's | program is for the reorganization of the country for war on a sweeping | socialistic bas and the general | comment is that only a cabinet of supermen can accomplish and conduct i such a revolution. In addition to the nationalization of shipping, mines and agriculture, drastic reforms in the drink problem, and the temporary settlement of the chaos in Iréland are discussed the major tasks con- fronting the new administration, | | as | | | PDemands Deeds Not Words, Par Dec. lar demand that reorganization of the s 9, 10 a. m.—The popu- conduct of the war, promised by the vote in the chamber of be both rapid and radical stimulus by the is becoming | Thursday | deputies, has received further events in England and more more outspoken and ins | Stephen Pichon, writing in | the | The tent. | the Petit | securities equivalent to all the ont- tandi securities including all excessive fixed indebtedness and all watered stock, are to be issued. railroads apparently are laying the foundation for the ultimate pur- government. The talk of the railroads forty-nine masters is simply to tickle the ear. United States runs through more than one-third of forty-eight states. though all other corporation; about which nobody except the railroads is com- plaining.” Tht joint house and senate com- mittee investigating tra nsportation problems decided today to ask con- gress to extend its life so it may post- pone further hearings until after the adjournment of congress. . This is considered necessary that time may be devoted in congress to President Wilson’s program of rail- road legislation. | If congress does not extend the life of the committee, some further hea ings probably will be held and a par tial report made before January 8, which is the limit of the committee’s authority. WANTS PEOPLE'S VOTE ON CONSTITUTION | York Congressman Believes Present System of Amend- ments All Wrong. Washington, Dee, 9.—A joint i Journal, say “By the result of Thursday's dis- cussion ment escapes responsibility a consequence of its policy for facts | which are and undertakes to car out measures which it had more or less promised five months ago. The fulfillment of these obligations wil! not be avoided by spceches, half measures tradictory acts in which the inten- tion to spare one or another is per- ceptible or which, under the cover of novelty, will perpetuate and increase the muddle. “There are spots where a sweep must be made to make wa absolutely new work. As to cabinets tof twenty-four, with places made for friends holding no real authority and in which too many ministers fold their | arms, their day ove The nation i clean v for is { wants something else and the country | degnands that its will shall be obeyed without an instant of delay. Other- aver and more dangerous re- sponsibility will be incurred. It 1g perfectly clear that the present situs tion cannot last. The conflict will change nothing. Tt cannot prevent the truth from br clouds in which it enveloped nor from demanding to he in- to what is being done. | formed a in the chamber the govern- | and con- | king through the | lution proposing a constitutional | amenament for an ecasier method of amending the constitution was intro- duced today by Representative Chand- | ter, of New York. ion of any | mis proposed amendment of both houses of con- and ratification by of the voters in majority of the states. For ratification it would be necessary also to reccive an aggregate | majority of all votes cast' in the United States. Constitutional elec- tions will be held every thirty years to consider proposed amendments. Mr. Chandler said the present method of amending the constitution i haic, cumbersome and | to a majority | gress a majority | | | undemo- CRATION OI' ¥ Dec. 9.—Chs | desecration of the United | Charles” S. Tyrell arrested will have a hearing the Tyrell placed a small 1 AG. rged with States flag, New Haven, Wi today and in city court Monday. flag ome nd of the flag, it on his be- Such danger sign planks he had in which extended machine. is charged, | American a I'the end of automobile | yond the rear use of the | desecration. as Head of National Assn. of Gom—i in In- | the | language | No railroad in the | Al- | do business in different states are sub- | | ject to regulation by each such state, It provides Sn!)-1 was | WARSHIP ESCAPES BRITISH BLOCKADE PR“BERS ARE Tum.sflcceed in Sllpping Thmngh Net Thrown Out in North Sea SAID T0 BE CRUISER Ship Captain Reports to Dondon That Hisg Vessel Was Held Up and amined in Atlantic Ocean—Insists It Is Not Converted Merchantman. London, Dec. 9, 2:45 p. m.—A Ger- man warship has succeeded in run- ing the British cordon in the North sea, according to the report of a ship captain who says his vessel was held up and examined in the Atlantic. The vessel is not a converted mer- chantman, the captain said on his ar- rival here, but is a regular light cruiser. London, Dec. 9.—The report from the log of this captain has become widely known in local shipping cir- cles, and has caused widespread agita- tion for the convoving of merchant- men. The British admiralty announced last night a report had been received that a disguised armed German ves- sel of mercantile type was sighted in the North Atlantic on December 4 |F. S. HEIDEICKER, PENSIONER, DIES One of the Oldest Members of Har- mony Lodge—Worked at P. & F. Corbin Factory for Half Century. Ferdinand S. Heideicker, one of the oldest members of the Masonic order in this city, died this morning at his home, Parkmore street. He was 82 years, b months and 15 days old and although he was a native of Ger- many he had lived in this city for more than a half a century. The funeral will be held from his late home at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon and inter- ment will be in Fairview cemetery. About a year ago this time Mr. Heideicker rounded out fifty years of continuous service in the employ. of the P. & F. Corbin, factory and was at that time placed on the factory pen- sion list. During the past year he has been inactive, owing to his advanced years. During the half century he was employed at the I’. & I. Corbin factory he w regarded as one of the most faithful of employes and enjoyed Py | the respect of his fellow workers dnd | chase of their property by the federal | superiors alike. Mr. Heideicker joined Harmony lodge, A. F. & A. M,, in 1870 and in his younger days was one leading spirits in the order. He was also a member of St. Elmo lodge, K. of . He was twice married and is survived by his wife. The funeral will be in Harmony lodge and Mr. will be buried according to the sonic rites. GOVERNMENT TO SEEK CORNER IN WIRELESS charge of Heideicker Ma- | Bill to Be Presented to Congress Will Urge Federal Control of Radio Stations, to of Washington, Dec. 9.—Authority establish a government monoply radio communication between ship and shore stations through the pur- chase of all private radio stations in the United States is to be sought from congr. A bill for this purchase now is being framed by a special gov- ernment board, according to com- mander D. W. Todd, director of nav- al communication: “The necessit for strong govern- ! ment control of radio communications reso- | becomes more necessary as ship and shore stations increase in number” Director Todd says in his annual re- port glven out today. ‘‘Interference and consequent inefficient communi- cation will continue until such con- | trol is obtained.” GREECE ACCUSED OF WARRING ON ALLIES Government and Court of Athens in Service of Germany, Russian Journal Charges. London, Dec. 9.—Reuter’s Petro- grad despatch quotes the Novoe Vre- mya as condemning the policy of the entente “conducting interminable de liberations while King Constantine i waging open war on the Allies.” “The government and court Athens’ 5 the Novoe Vrem our enemies and in Germany’s ser- vice. Why do we continue to recog- nize as legitimate government au- thorities at Athens who are acting as a section of the German staff?" $ at “are Hartrord, Hartford and tonight. Sunday colde i Rain clearing and that | of the | ERA OF CRIMES AND SLAUGHTER BY VILLA Uribe “Ear Cutter” in Charge and Many Women Were Slain, L E1 Paso, Dec. 9.—The first newspa- per printed in Chihuahua City afte its recapture by Carranza force: reached the border today with addi- tional details of the fighting against | Villa and a story of the atrocities | committed there by the bandits. | After a battle lasting four days, the paper sa the Villa forces entered | the city on the night of November 26 and later that night captured the ar- tillery on Santa Rosa hill. At five o’clock o@ the morning the 27th, the defenders of the city found ! themselves short of ammunition and fron that moment the era of terror began. General Trevino decided to save the artillery he had already placed on a train for emergency uses and left for Aldama, twenty miles to the north- east, his troops marching the tance. After Trevino’s departure, General Ozuna fought on for some hours until he had succeeded in loading several trains, which went north 'to Sauz. General forces, Bachimba Canyon, about thir ! below Chihuahua, where he General Murguia, who had been work- Trevino, reorganizing his v miles or | next marched from Aldama to | joined | ably many ing up from the south. As thev came north on November 30, they en- countered a bandit command under | Josa Ynez Salazar, Martin Topez, Bau- ! delio Uribe and othe The fight be- twenty miles ‘below Chihuahua | Ban and lasted from 9 m. until | City dark. dead on the field and lost a number of | prisoners, according to Carranza offi- ce The paper explains that this was entirely an infantry action on the | part of the government forces, so that cavalry the pursuit bandit parti minated, Villa’s occupation of | City the paper says, was an crfmes and assassinations.”’ Among the murdered were many soldiers’ wives who remained with their hus- bands through the battle. Baudelio Uribe, “the ear cutter” led in the slaughter. SEEBECK ANSWER A MYSTERY Germany to Despatch Note on Sinking a. effected. exter- could be overtaken were Chihuahua “era of of American Vessel Never Heard of in Washington. Berlin, Dec. 8 3 p. m, via Lon- don, Dec. 9, 8:30 a. m.—The Ger- man @answer to the American inqui regarding the sinking of the Seebeck has been dispatched to Washington. The steamer Seebeck, according to German information, was steaming without lights of any indication of its nationality in the immediate vicinity of a hostile naval port and there were no means of distinguishing it from an enemy warship. No details in regard to the sinking of the Seebeck have been received here and available shipping rec ords do not list the vessel. The foregoing probably refers to 1he sinking of the vessed alluded to in German admiralt statement of October 20 last as “the armed British transport steamer Zedek, ’* sunk in the Mediterranean by a German subma- rine on October 12. It was assumed that the steamer Zebek of 4,510 tons gross, built in West Hartlepool in 1908 was the vessel in question. Sister Testifies leged Murderer. 9.—The testimony of | Teiper in the case of | her brother, dohn Idward Teiper, ac- cused of the murder of his mother | and brother, w completed today. | The testimony was taken at the Teiper home ‘In ‘Riehmond avenue and will be read to the jury next week. District Attorney Moore, Edward O’ Malley, chief counsel for Teipe referee and the family phy e the only persons present per’s examination: The defense, it is depend largely upon testimony to sustain the murders were committed b, Dec, J. Buffalo, R. understood, will Miss Teiper's the theory that a ne- i The bandits left five hundred | had to be brought up before | All | ing | 2 | Pr jorit tions. steps ton High at pre it as High with Main away Take The ton ing kind since Black vears terribl bus, t ruck ing family hoy. Bla gro for the purpose of robber) ished. applied. 10:32 National gested to ington, the city Quigley ington street nd Expected 5 the socialist party They Grew, embas: be taken to see that a o @ m secretary been making the deportation of Belgian | The reply follow much the same lines made to the Belgian protest through the Spanish government, of which was published in the North German Gazette this morning. The result of Secretary Grew’s con- ference with Chancellor mann-Hollweg on the subject prob- will be that while the using unemployed Belgians will be adhered to, has is it care is statement o bot in ¢ pposed discussed the which measures of protest | taken Germany. MAYOR WOULD MAKE solely cxecutive's Reply to America’s Protest in Few Days, May Promise Reforms in Selecting Workmen. Berlin, Thursday, Dec. 7, Via Lon- don, Dec. 9, 10:05 a day or two will reply with a memo- randum to the representations which Joseph C. American regarding laborers. —Germany in of the expected to the substance ¢ von in to now use to made in German Socialists Join in Protest. The Hague, Dec. a, m.—The Via London, German socialist | leaders Philip Schidmann and Fried- | erich Evert attended a meeting here | of the executive international couneil, ' which was called in response to Presi- | dent Emil Vandervelde's world-wide appeal to the affiliated groups regard- deportations sident Vandervelde is the Belgian minister of munitions. The German socialist leaders joined | themselves with the | dorsement of the appeal and told their | Dutch comrades that and minority in en h he the the form will LAKE STREET WIDE ‘Would Thus Do Away With That Part of Crossing Where This Morn- ing’s Accident Occurred. taken street sent. tate the city Erwin | widen Lak: that with Washington street on the high- way and not on the railroad track as so ing, Following the fatal accident Washington street crossing this morn- ing George A. Quigley announced that John B. Miner of tne Spring Bed company nimself on Thursday toward the wid- eding of Lake street at the Washing- street cro; inate the possibility dents of this nature, forward immediately. The plan has been previously sug- street east of w helpl of f woul it at the and ng to elim- urther acci- d be rushed il intersect To do this would necessi- company he di the reet, with street. that the Rock ago. e acei aking by were s Rock Mr. street thre = a strip of property, tack factory, and paying the National Spring Bed company property. mayor d not the RECALLS DY al accident at the Washing- grade vegar has Dy ded son 1 Older dent train e me kille esult grade Miner as oc paving the Russell $4,000 the sit $9, want t and ON TR crossing the curred fatality sing al resident W vivialy. children to at the mbers of d, of two that a advised on Thursday that his concern had been offered a price for the prop- erty at the corner of Lalke and Wash- but he hesitated about sell o crossing & damaoges for e of the old 000 for the the ng 0 embarass in case the widening of Lake street is to be consummated. According to the plan which Mayor has in mind Lake street from street to Washington would so widened that it would run to Wash- approximately railroad thus effectually present be parallel West doing at with rossing SEDY. this morn- worst of in this city at the old bout thirty s recall this A school hool, was its grade cros: the Dyson girls and a accident the was abol- as that Beth- plan of Ger- pains will is accurately Tt is explained that it has not always been possible to prevent the measure being applied glans not of the unemployed classes. but that greater exercised, and that with the dis- | Belgian lists it is thought the meas- | use can be restricted classes which it is designed to affect. The position of the German govern- ment on the Belgian deportations was outlined in Thursday and transmitted despatches on TFriday. Bel- being of the on news Belgium. ma- German deporta- in be EXPRESS WRECKS HACK AT WASHINGTON ST. CROSSING; ONE KILLED, THREE DYING GERMANY TO USE CARE IN DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS | Michael J. Claughsey, Veteran Fireman, Dies at Hospital Two Daughters and Niece in Critical Condition -Were Going to Funeral --- Gates Up GATEMAN FAILED TO HEAR TRAIN COMING View of Railroad Blocked by Freight: Cars—Engincer of Boston Express, Running to Make Up Lost Time, Failed to Blow Whistle, Witness Says—Driver Remains at Post Trys ing to Save Occupants, Michael J. Claughsey of 41 Clark street, oldest member of the Net Britain fire department in point. of service with a record of 42 years, . dead and three members of his fam- ily in a critical and uncongcious con dition at New Britain General hospis tal as a result of the hack in which they were riding to attend the funeral of a relative being run down by i eastbound Boston express at th Washington street crossing about 8:20] this morning.. The hack was con verted into twisted mass of metn and kindling wood. ' One horse, owa by James Doyle, liveryman, wos badly injured that it had to be shof Andrew McGill, the driver, wasl thrown to the embankment but suf-} fered only slight injuries. With Claughsey were his two daugh ters, Anna and Grace, and a niecey Anna:Claughsey. The outcome o their injuries are in doubt this afters] noon, surgeons reporting them to he suffering from muitiple abraisions and lacerations, concussion and general shock. In addition, the youngest daughter, Anna, has a fractured col= lar bone. None of the young women had »gs covered consclousness late this aftefs noon. Gates Were Not Lowered. According to witnesses and the ¥a- | | from nearby ported admission of S. M. Jones, gate- tender at the crossing, the gates were not lowered as the latter was una= ware of the approach of the express, which was running at high speed in an attempt to make up about twelve ninutes of lost time. The death hack was one of three taking relatives to the home of the late Daniel E. Sulli~ van at 86 Lake street prior to the fun- eral from St. Mary's church. first hack, which had safely p crossing and was on its way up Lake street, were Mrs. Claughsey and sovers al relatives. The third hack was Just back of the death carriage and near- ly upon the tracks when its driver wwas warned by chouts from bystand- ors, the shouts of Erakeman TV i Buckley of the switching eresv ani ¢ sound of the approaching train McGill saw his danger too 1 made a herolc attempt to save the ocoupants of the hack. Seeing that it would be impossible to get to Lake street in time, he turncd his horses slightly and tried to drive them up the embankment. With but a minute more he would have succeeded. The pllot of locomotive 1014, one of the largest used in passenger service, struck the hack about midway, wreoking it and casting its occupants, bleeding and un- conscious beneath i wreckage. The horge nearest the train was horribly mangled, suffering a fractured hip and backbone. TUnable to get to itg feet, it proved a drag for its mate and prevented a runsaway being added to the disaster. Passengers Thrown \pplication of the emergency brakes stopped ihe heavy train in almost its own length and tossed the D ngers about the cars in confusion soon as they recovered, many went to the d of the injured and assisted the trainmen in givi first d treatment until physicians and the police ars rived. Attracted hy the locomotive whistle, sound of the emergency About, A | brakes being applied and sound pf the ocked to the sdene nd Main strect was notified Rawlings re- direr and the hundred factories dquarters and Chief Willam J sponded with the ambulance, ing the transfer of the injured preliminary investigation in Prior to the arrival the lance, Miss Anna Claughsey was hur- red to the hospital in an automobile by James J. Naughton and George . Henni; Her sister, Grace, was the first taken in the ambulance in charge of Chauffeur Matthias Rival and Po- liceman Frederick Wagner. Dr. Jos eph Walsh, police department sur 1pact, Police he (Continued on Ninth