New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1917, Page 10

S PLIN GREAT JUBLIC FLAG DAY Be Most Extensive in His- tory of Lodge call brought out a ce of the members lodge, B. P, O. ¥ a number of impor: ken up for discuss large of last cvening, among these was the action on jport of the Flag Day’ committee was presented by Dr, Roger 1. fold in which the committee ad- JAMES M. CURTIN. ted for Thirteenth Term as easurer of B. P. O. E., 957. the holding of the event in out-of-doars, the event to be a ¢ affair. sum was voted to the ittee for the completion of its he of the. cardinal principles of is itd venoration and love for Pmblem of American freedom, and [hally, since the institution of the ¢, the ‘nembers have assembled to homage to the Red, White and The plan for the exercises as atively outlined by the commit- is year, ¢alls for the most elab-. celebration ever attempted by | organization. Heretofore the abers of the Grand Army of the blic have been the guests of the on, but with the “Vets' still oc- Wing the center of the stage, in- ons will be extended to all pa- gic organizations, and the school en. It is also intended to in- Governor Marcus = H. Holcomb, nbers of his staff and the Putnam lanx to be participants in the jbration. Jocatioh of the exercises has béen fully détermined on at this fiy date, but there is some indica- ‘that the event may be held at ut Hill park. With the magni- y'that the affair will reach no the park would offer the most quate facilities for the exercises, as believed that besides members of ) arder from various parts of the te, other guests will be present. At g night's meeting, it was voted to e the committee’ which has e such careful plans so far, thus ng ‘the success of the un- taking. 9 Officcrs Nominated. Nominations for officers for the en- g year was also held last evening, Iting in the following being e Exalted ruler, Timothy W. jen; esteemed leading knight, s O. Butler; esteemed loyval knight, ph G. Woods: esteemed lecturing hignt, Dr. FHonry Martin: treasurer, nes M. Curtin; tyler, John Foleyv: ustee for three years, Pafrick Mc- be. The nomination of Mr. Curtin for asurer, marks the beginning of the irteenth term !n that capacity Jesuming the.duties of the office on arch 28, 1002, he has served con- pnously, and much of the success of he lodge is due to his excellent busi- #s ‘acumen. Mr. Curtin has been ntified with the PElks for manv ars, having originally joined Hart- @ lodge. When the charter was pnted lodge 957, he was one of the rst to enroll in its membership. Timothy W. O’Brien, nominated for Ixalted ruler, has worked himself fhrough the various chairs of the pdge, thereby qual ng for the most phportant office in the lodge. Ap- bointed by Exalted Ruler Delaney as Inside suard in 1911, Mr. O'Brien has nade a record as an office holder vhich is probably unequalled in New itain ledge. Thoroughly conver- ant with the needs of the lodge, and eld in high estcem by its members, the coming year in local Elkdom car- jes with it the prophecy of his suc- ess. EXPORTS TO EUROPE E lAmericanr Shipments to Those People 86 Per Cent. of Total. Washington, Feb. 2-—European pountries took 66 per cent. of Ameri- con exports in 1916 25 shown in sta- listics announced todlay by the de- partment of commerce. Products shipped to Furope increased 48 per cent. in valuc over 1915 and reached ll e total of $2,813,621,000. ports South t almost doubled, r §144,128,000 in 1915 to $220,288,000. pments to Asia ports more than douhled, leaping from $149,708,000 to $363,201,000. Much of the Asiatic shipments, however, went tirough to Russia. to Ame increasin ON WITH THE MUZZLES. | Hartiord, Feb. 2.—Catile Commis- sioner Phelp+ had a conference with Attorney General George E. Hinman today concerning the enforcement of - the law relating to muzzling of mad ogs. 'The commissioner had been in- that. local authorities fii at- New BUTTER | ¥ Mohican Creamery i $L15, 1b 40c doz 420 w 24c s 20c 27c 32c¢ 21 19€ Guaranteed Bggs.. . ki Fancy Dairy Cheese . . .. Mohican Pure Lard ...... Swift’s Premium Oleo. . ...1-1b cake Brick or Muenster Cheese .........Ib Pure Apple Butter . . .. Fancy Sage Cheese . .. .. Stuffed er Plain Olives ..........pt Sour or Sweet Mixed Pickles . .pt 18c 18c Legs Young Lamb ...... » 22 FRESH HAMBURG FANCY SHOULDER SIRLOIN OR RUMP SLICED BEEF LIVER . 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Crackers 10 Cent * 5 Cent Pkgs 80 ’ Pk;: 4c .1-1b pkg 6c 11c SWEET JUICY SUNKIST T NEWS At the mecting of the scoutmasters last Sunday afternoon twelve new merit badge examiners were added to the merit badge faculty. Skinner, scoutmaster of Troop 4 was recommended as deputy commissioner in charge of extension work. The court of honor will meet Tues- day evening from 7 to 8 to receive credentials from scouts who have passed merit badge examinations. Plans for the local meet are .iear- ly complete. It is probable that the meet will have to be held Saturday afternoon, February 17 instead of Friday evening, February 16, as it will be impossible to get the armory fcr Friday, evening. If the meet is held in .the' afternoon all troops will as- semble at the Y. M. C. A. on Court street at 1:15 and march in a body promptly at 2, the meet to begin at 2:15. i The following list of standard events has been adopted by the scoutmasters: scoutcraft, first aid race, friction fire lighting, Morse signalling, semaphore signalling, knot tying, stretcher mak- ing, equipment race, rescue rale, staff throw, patrol signal towen race, Pauil Revere race, patrol standing broad jump relay, patrol staff relay. The following men are representing the scouts of the city at the nation- al conference of scout official a: Col- umbia university, New York eity, to- ! day and tomorrow are Scoutmasters | Skinner of Troop 4 and Bell of Troop 9. Assistant Scoutmasters Firnhaber of Troop 11 and McKenna of Troop 9, Scout Turner of Trocp 6. Anniversary week 1s celebrated next | week beginning Thursday, February 8, ! the seventh birthday of the national , organization. T.ocal troops will . ob- | serve the week in differcnt ways. On the regular meeting night of each ! troop the message of the presiderit Mr. | Colin H. Livingston will be read. On Thursday evening at 8:15 every mem- ber of the Boy Scouts of America, wherever he may.de; will stand at at- tention with his hand at salute and repeat the Scout oath. Each troop will plan some community good turn. On Sunday evening, February 18 there will be a public anniversary service in the Methodist church at 7:30. Thera will be statements of the condition of the local work and descriptions of the \ are doing. Further plans of this last feature will be annotnced next week. New Britain scouts are again minded of the two meets, the ! ¥ebruary 24 Hartford, tha other March 3 at Bristol. Entries in tre Bristol meet must be in by March 2. re- one at Kensington will be blic demonstration evening, Iebru- H Troop 14 of launched at a pu in Berlin Saturday ary 10— New Britain scouts have only two weeks more to enroll new members in the contest for the prize wall-skin. With two troops tied for first and an- other only one point behind, indica- tions point to a close race at the fin- ish. Troop 4 and 8 each have cight- een enlistments to thelr credit and Troop 9 is pushing them close “#ith seventeen. Robert Hanford of Troop 6 still leads the fleld in individual cores with fifteen enlistments, and ond place with eleven. Third place is held by Sidney Martin of Troop 9 who has brought in six new scouts. The troop standing {s as follows: Troop 8 Troop Troop Troop Troop Troop | Troop Troop Troop Troop 18 in 9—Baptist 10—Jewish 3—Methodist 12—St. Marks . 1—Y. M. C. A, 8—South 11—sSt. Johns 5—Burritt Mission Total The ragular meeting of Trodp 4. Wednesday evening was largely taken h practice for the indoor meet. souts voted to procure new staffs the entire troop. The regular | = rday hike will be omitted this weck on account of the absence of Scoutmaster Skinner, who is attending the scout conference in New York. “Troop 10 voted in nine new mem- a wero | bers at the regular Tuesday meeting. | know. in, following his muzzling orders. | Scouts Chernoff and Nair have com- | jacket front. Dwight | | work that all of the troops of the city | Harry Bradbury of Troop 3 has sed-’ menced publishing a weekly troop pa= per. An inter-patrol meet will be held at the Smalley school playground on Sunday morning at 10:30. HARTMAN CATCHES LEADERS “The Yankee” Now Even With Com- petitors in Winnipeg-St. Paul Dog Race—Doesn’t Expect to Win. 1 St. Cloud, Feb. 2.—Fred Hartman of Boston overtook the four remain- ing competitors in the Winnipeg-St. Paul dog race here at 7:30 this morn- ing, driving three dogs and, with one dog serious ill, riding upon the to- boggan. To some of the people who were out to greet him, despite a tem- perature of 30 degrees blow zero, Hartman said he had given up hope of winning the race, but would finish. REPUBLIC IRON AND STEEL. Net Earnings of $16,544,636 in Past Year. New York, Feb. 2—The Republic Iron and Steel company of the indus- trial corporations which has profited largely by war contracts, reports net earnings of $16,544,636 in its annual statement for 1916, issued today, an increase of $11,105,308 over the pre- vious year. : OHIO BECOMES A TRUST. Columbus, O., Feb. 2.—By a vote of 28 to 2 the state senate today passed a bill excluding private liability in- surance companies from competing with the state in writing workmen's compensation insurance. The bill now goes to Governor Cox for his sig- | nature. SAUCY MODEL FOR CERTAIN MAIDENS | | 1 | THE FLIRT, Gingersnap brown in eolor, a satin and velvet combined, this picturesque design has beaded disks circling the waist line, which is long and straight as possible. All spring waist lines strive for this straight wide effect, you Twin velvet buttons adorn the ROSENBERG CALLS ROSEN HARD NAMES 'Park Street Merchant Says He| Accepted Bad Check Claiming that Hyman Rosen of Hartford, an agent for the John Han- | cock Insurance company, had cheat- ed him out of $45 by passing a worth- less check, G. Rosenberg, who con- ducts a store at 1756 Park street, says he went to the local office of the company yesterday to accuse the | agent and found that several others | had also been victimized by him. Mr. Rosenberg states that one David A. Raschkow was a victim of Rosen’s bad checks and he also declares that a well known trolley conductor has | lost $55 by the same methad. Further i investigation, Mr, Rosenberg states, i has shown him that Rosen has cheat- | ed a number of other people, includ- ing his brother-in-law and sister in Hartford and Nirenstein and Schwartz, bankers, of Hartford. The local grocer says Rosen’s sister told ;\;m that he had cheated her out of 25. According to Mr. Rosenberg’s story Rosen gained the confidence of his victims before fleecing them. Mr. Rosenberg states that Rosen has visited his house regularly for many months to collect an insurance policy premium and about three months ago generously offered to loan him $25 to tide him over a temporary business depression. He accepted the favor and subsequently Rosen did him several other favors. Conse. quently when Rosen visited him shortly before the end of January and asked for the loan of $15 he was speedily accommodated by the grate- ful grocer. In retnrn Rosen gave ~him his personal check on Niren- stein and Schwartz for that gmount. Then, Mr. Rosenberg explains, the insurance agent asked for the return of the check, saying he would llke to borrow $15 more and he would cover that with his own check for $45. Rosenberg claims to have given the Hartford man his check for $15 and one for $17. On January 25 the | New Britain Trrst company notifled him that Rosen's check for $45 had gone to protest, he said. o Last Monday, Rosenberg says, he met Rosen and advised him that his check was a1 good, whereupon he promised to send a certified check the next day. On Tuesday Rosen- ' berg says Rosen visited the store with the insurancc company superinten- dent and in Jowish requested Rosen- berg not to mention the check epi- sode, promising to return at noon and make good. Subsequently, Rosenberg | s, Rosen kept putting him off with until Thursday night when ned to the office superin- | he comp! tendent. Yestarday morning he visted the | office acain to confront Rosen and found Mr. Raschkow and the con- ductor, each of whom admitted be- | ing cheated. Mr. Rosenberg said he visited Roser’s home in Hartford and was told there that he had cheated his sister and brother-in-law out of $125. The man’s relatives told Ros- enberg that Rosen had not been homo and they did not know where he could |be found. ‘ FAIR AND COLDER. No Relief From Chilly Wave fs Pre- | aicted. New Haven, Feb. 2.—For New Ha- ven and vicinity Fair tonight and Saturday; colder tonight. Tor Connecticut: Fair and colder tonight; Saturday fair and continued cool; strong northwest winds on the coast Conditions: There is no well de- fined storm area this morning cast of the Rockies. Some snow furries were reported from the lake region but pleasant weather prevails in all other sections. A long ridge of high pressure extending from North Da- kota southward to Texas 1s producing a severc cold wave in all districts east of the R ics. Temperatures from 10 to 40 degree blow zero are report- cd along the northern border from Montana to Maine. Zero tempera- tures extend as far south as Oklahoma and Tennessee and freezing tempera- tures to the gulf coast and to north- lern Florida on the Atlantic ~ coast, | Hummel was very positive in his ! wire, | end of the wire throughout the dayv, ! message, now strangely mis Atlanta, Ga., was only 12 above zero which was 3 degrees colder than New Haven. Conditions favor for this fair weather with somewhat temperature. GREEKS GROW RESTLESS Request London to Raise Blockade of vicinity lower Ports on Ground That Entente De- | mands Were Granted. ; London, Feb. 2.—Request has been made for the raising of the Greek blockade on the ground that the de- | mands of the Entente allies, including iin great measure the transfer of troops to the south, have been com- plied with., No reply has been sent. | HUTTON ACCUSED OF FIXING TESTIMONY {Telegraph Man Says He Hehrd Him Advising Previous Witness { of F. A. Connolly, New York, Feb. 2.—Despite possi- bility that the international situation may demand their presence in Wash- ington at any momet congressional in- vestigators were confronted by con- i tradictory testimony of such import- ance in the leak inquiry today .hat they decided to continue their hear- ings here. Plans were fully laid yes- | terday for discontinuing the New York hearings, but the testimony of a telegraph operator named Becker, employved by E. F. Hutton & Company, [ so changed the situation that a deci sion to remain here was reached sud- denly. Becker flatly contradicted the de- claration of F. Connolly, a Washington broker, that on December 20 he sent a mesage containing advance informa- tion on President Wilson’s coming peace note over a private telegraph Becker covered the New York | he testified, not even going to lunch. and did not receive the Connolly ng. That there may be no chance to er- ror, the committee has arranged 1o examine every telegraph operator in Hutton's ecmploy today in an cffort to determine who, if any one, did re- coiva the Connolly message. Connolly remains here on the order of the com- mittee and probably will be recalled to the witness stand. It tho operators and Connolly fail to agree today as to how the message renched the Mutton house, Georze A. Wilis, Jr., of tha Hutton firm, who has heen summoned here from Georgia to testify, is expected to straighten out the conflicting views. He is the mon Who drafted from Connolly’s message & warning to Hutton's correspondents {hroughout the United States that a peace note was coming. He will not arrive until Sunday, it is understcod, | and by that time the hearings prob- Amic will have been transferred bick | to Washington. Operator Accuses Hutton. W. Frank Packard, a Hutton tele- araph operator, the first witness, be- gan his testimony with a voluntary attempt to discredit Becker's testi- mony. Ue sald it would be “ridicu- lous for an operator to say he did or did not receive a message in Decem- ber. Pressed by Whipple, Packard ad- mitted that he overheard E. F, Hut- ton advising this argument to Becker in his office this morning. Packard was excused after saying he had| neither received not sent any of the messages in evidence. F. M. Dick, an expert in values, from the Hutton house, who advises customers regarding transactions, | minimized the imporance of the mes- | ge forecasting the president’s note. “In the light of the many rumors we have had in the last two years and a half,” he said, “such messages would | not have impressed my house.” John F, Hummell, a telegraph op- erator In the Hutton house on the southern wire ‘there testified that he did not receive the Connolly forecast of the president’s message. His wire and that of Joseph M. Becker, who swore yesterday that he did not re- ceive the Connolly message, are the only two between the Hutton house and Connolly. | | | i I | & message certainly I _ing work in this section. |ance are indicated declaration that he did not receive the Connolly telegram. He said such would have im- pressed him. “You agree with Mr. Becker that on account of the importance of the message you would have remembered if you had received asked. “I would have Humme] testified. Referring to Hummel’s stateménts Mr. Whipple said his testimony ap- peared to dispense with the possibility of the Connolly message coming in on the southern wire but he would call other operators so no doubt might re- main about its receipt. Nicholas Peterson, a messenger in the Hutton office from whom W. G. Toomey, chief operator for Hutton, who sent out the flash warning of the coming of the president’s message had sald he might have gotten his infor- mation, could not recall giving Toom- ey any such information. George W. Conkling, a Hutton oper- ator, stated he had not received the Connolly message of December 20, but had sent out the Ellis warning. He said that upon reading the presi- dent’s note the next day he congratu- lated the firm on being able to send in advance an accurate forecast of the note to its customers. When the congressional leak inquiry committee adjourned to meet in Washington tomorrow the testimony the Washington broker, regarding his sending of u Te- sume of President Wilson’s peace note io E. F. Hutton & Company, New York brokers, had been disputed by every telegraph operator in Hutton’s employ, who, Sherman L. Whirple said, might have handled Connolly's message. GERMAN AVIATORS BUSY IN THE WEST Important Developments Pres- aged by Berlin War Report remembered it,"” While developments from the new German naval campaign are pending, military operations are on a small scale and command only limited in- terest. Signs of probable important penings upon the Franco-Bo front are not wanting, however. The artillery and reconnoitering activity seems to be growing appreciably all along the line. German airplanc: have been doing considerable -scou Eerlin men- tions this today in reporting the ac quisition of valuable information by German airmen behind the British front. In the Somme region the artillerv hap- zian | also is notably busy and raiding onc ations, of more than ordinary impo ‘by the off statement. . On the Russian, Rumanian and Macedonfan fronts there have heen comparatively few happenings ¢? im- portance. The German war office re- ports no changes in any of these war area German Report on West. Berlin, Feb. 2, by wireless to ville—Artillery and reconnoitering ac tivity of a lively sort is reported In to- day’s army headquarters statement in many sectors of the Iranco-Belgian front. The artillery duel was particu- larly sharp between the Ancre and Somme, while in the Gueudcourt scc- tor on the Somme front an oper Ly a British force resulted in the Ger- men lines being entered on a small front, the Germans afterwards clenr- ing the position by a counter attaclk. Germans Attack in Lorraine. Paris, Teh. frenches trenches outh of Leintrey in Lorraine, werc attacked last nizht by the Germans. The attack failed, the war office an- nounced today. There were artillery actions last night at Louvemont, north of Verdua and at Metzeral, in the Vosges. A German aviator dropned hombs yvesterday on Dunk war office repor the dam d that there were no victims. The smeadi Russian Line Pierced. Petrograd, via London, Teb. German troops broke through Russlan first line trench positions at Polotvina, southwest of Brezany, says ORANGES v it?” ‘Whipple | n Large California Lemons . .. .doz Heavy Grape Fruit ... .4 for Fancy Table Apples . .. .4 gts Cape Cod Cranberries 2 gts Fresh Carrots or Parsnips . .3 lbs 1 OC Green Curly Kale..u.‘..pkzoc New G S;ivr‘:acll;e(.n.l. .pk 300 Dried Apples or 10 c 25¢ Peaches .Ib 23c New Meaty 19¢ Prunes . .. .31bs English Walnut Meats . ...%-1b the official statement issued today. | The Russians however, launched a | counter attack and drove the Teutons back into their own entrenchments. 19¢ 19¢ 23c 15¢ Cold and Snow in Southeast. Berlin, Feb. 2, by wireless to Say-™ ville—“Owing to the severe cold and heavy snowfall, there were no impori- ant events,” says today's offidial re- I port regarding the Russo-Galician | front. No echanges on the Rumanian | or Macedonian fronts are recorded. FORTY KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF GAS (Continued from First Page) | mother, two brothers and a sister were in rooms adjoining his and that he believed they were killed. Stanley’ Pcters, who suffered pain- ful injuries from flying glass and timbers, asserted that two of his children wer= lost, two others ' being rescued. Neighbors of Samuel Friedman in the tenement told the settlemeni workers that Friedman and hi | family of four had been burfed be- néath ‘the wreécked timbers a8 they were in the part of the building which callapsed first, Leak in Gas Main. Following an investigation by a wrecking crew from the gas company it was sald that a maeain which ex- tended through the cellar of the wrecked tenement had burst, filling the basement with gas which exploded when some one went to investigate. The employes of the gas company ! worked vainly for some time in at- | tempts to shut off the gas. | In the building across the K | from the wreeked structure fire fol: | | lowed the explosion and the occupafitds fled in their night clothing to the rea#; porches. These collapsed, precipitat ting them to the ground, causing pains ful injuries. Calvin F. Davis, a switchman working nearby, said the explosion felt lixe an earthquake. ‘Flames shot up from the side of the building almost immediately the rumble of the ex- n had died aw; he said,” and then suddenly a big blue flame leaped high in the air and the whole butidin crumpled up. With four other: switchmen I ran to the place and we cauglit three children thrown over the railing of a second stéry porch anfl a § fourth struck me on the head #nd: knocked me down. 1 t “The place was in darkness when we arrived except for the light m from the blaze, which apparently was fed by gas from a broken main. Our attention was attracted to piles of powdered brick and plaster, some of which moved and from which camey/ hands and occasionally a foot. , Thesa¥y we dug out.” Y Rescue Fiftcen From Death, X Davis and his companions sic-&, ceeded in extriceting fifteen persons from the wreckage. He said that the flames gained such rapld headway that the efiorts of himself and his com- panions were of little avail against the fire. When the police and firemen rived, however, they were caring i streét | § i | inore than a dozen children who heen scparated fros their parentad . : Bodics Frozen in Mud. ¥ Fircmen attacking the ice-coversd & wreckage penetrated through the 3 | outer crust at 10 a, m. and dec! they could see what seemed to 18 | bodies bencath the mud and thl | efforts were redoubled and amb nc were sent for in the hope victims still alive might be reson After working for an hour &t eckage where the moans came fro a semi-conscieus condition. { firemen said that the voices were be- coming plainer and that a number of persons seemed to be imprisoned in & sort of a wreck-choked grotto arghed over by fallen timbers. five | .‘lby | t 11 o'clock two women and twe unconscious but with the spask ' o remaning, were rescusd and . sent to tho county hospital. ) Seven inquiries were begun dy vars ' | ious city and county department, Morris Feldman, the janitor told t-M: | police that on various occasions éoie plaint of the odor of gas was made to the gas company and that pe-* pairs were made to shut off the aséaps nieces of tape. £ Feldman taid he went away withe im”' ordering anything.