New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 1

& 0 Is Soaman ot Otber G ¥ lor Cicage’ Radiator Firn PASSPORT FUSED IS RE tiés for Permission to Return Homc, #18ut Will Be Detained Until End of | 8 JINO U.S. GITENS | WILL REGRUIT HONE | | HELD BY PRUSSLANS GUARD IMHEHIATELY ‘Enli,stmmt Begins 'I'Mghl Yith ‘ Office in City: Hall (EAPEGT, GONPANY “OF 00 Mayor qulg:5- Ofice o Be D From 7 to.9 For Receipt of Names 0 New Britain’s Emcrgency Con- stabulary Force. Enlistment in ‘the' Home Guards of \ M 15, 5:35 a. m.—The detention E New Britain will begin this evening | f,fi ‘two Americans in Germany, one of whom at least apparently is classed by the German authorities as a bel- is reported ' here. James o an American member of the ftew - of ‘the unarmed Norwegian ship Storkog, which was sunk by a . .submarine, is being held in ‘internment camp together' with ,three Russians and one 'British sub- Ject, who weré alro members. of the Storaskog’s crew. The Norwegians and 1es, whe. formed the balance of ship’s: complement, have been re- $:to _gran to.an American, the refusal 5 lly -endorsed in writing specifical Yoy the duration of the war.” e dlgnincancs of M i when a recruiting office will ‘be opened ih Mayor G. A. Quigley’s of- i fice in city hall from 7 until 9 | o’clock. Hereafter this recruiting of- | fice will be open daily from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m, 'That the Home Guard movement is destined 'to be one of the most important civic and patriotic I-tem that New Britain has ever seen, jor the grand old state of Comnecticut ever undertook, was amply demon- strated this morning when the central recruiting committee met. The meém- bers are all well known. business men whose time is valuable, -vet each one uncomplainingly devoted ‘the entire morning to the working out of & de- tailed plan‘to give New Britain “a Home Guard of which she can feel Justly proud. - Additional Officers Named. The governor’'s emergency military committee appointed as the local re- ‘cruiting’ officers, Mayor George -A.] Quigley, Frank Traut, E. Allen Moore, Col. W. W. Bullen,and William Sloper. Today the state committee added thie names of Frank H. Jahnston " and Prominent men on both sides in the AIN, CONNECTICUT, : THURSDAY, MARCH 15, between the raflroad men RAL | dent of the Louisville and Nashville; 1917. —TEN PAGES: IREVOLUTION. |HERALD *ADS” BETTER. BUSIN e e ESTABLISHED .1 SUCCESS, SAYS BERLIN; MANY CITIES AFFEC BOTH SIDES SILENT AFTER GONFERENGE R Managers and Brother- 3 | hood Ghies Talk fo Hour Burton C. Morey. E. Allen Moore |threatened rallroad tieup are depicted has declined to serve and has for- | here. Warren S. Stone, who is grand warded his resignation to the state. | Chlef of the Brotherhood of Locomo- Acting upon advices from the head-'| tive gers; Secretary of Labor ‘| other quarters in Hartford, the o ‘Wilson, who may be called uj to employers; W. 8. Carter, who.is presl- | Danipl Willard, who is president of, dént of the'Brotherhood of, mo~ | the Baltimore dnd Ohic and .also tive Firemen and Enginemen; od | chairmian of the advisory committee H. Smith, who is president of the New | of the national defense/council. The York Central and Hudson River.rail- { railroad works demand the putting commiittee has appointed several addi- tional recruiting officers here that all classes -of public, business and civic life will be - thoroughly represented. These additional - appointees ‘are Samuel ‘E. Magson, ‘formerly captain in the local millitia; George M. Lan.| ders, president of the Chamber 'of Commerce; George ‘T, Kimball; Mi- welli known busi- : ll’m Greater Yoice dy ‘Mayor Quigley .and - the have been beseiged by t"to enlist in the Home Yesterday twenty different |“Woe to mien applied for enlistment papers end this morning William Squire;: for- merly with Company E, First Infan- [ |try, was the first recruit to offer his sokkeeper's name is He 3 .m tnh.“ ‘lVGI“ in t'he Clom\lmn sjsHennig, with his wife and child,’ xwent to Berlin more than a year ago tojoin” the clerical force of the Ber- ‘iin:branch of the company. sMartford, March 15.—That the pe- sgition of the Stanley Rallway com- for & charter to build a trolley wood or Charter Oak lines will be Cjeported favorably by the railrcad @ ‘was stated this morning by Harry Leonard, chairman of .. this trolley company, as soon as char- ter grants are made, will be enabled stp begin work at once to secure the Smecessary funds and then begin actual ‘Yesterday, before the railroad com- local men explained the great d of such a trolley line. The ac- unt of this hearing is published else- here in this. paper. #DR. GRAYSON CONFIRMED Mot Navy and Rear Admiral ‘Washington, March 15.—Dr, Cary #. Grayson, President Wilson's ndval ¢, was comfirnied by the senate to- o as medical director and rear ad- Wliral ‘in the navy after a long fight P him by republican senators. -| strength’ ‘required by law. jed by fire early today to an ex-I'e “estimated at about'$50,000. The ined. services. Due to an unfortunate de- lay in getting information, equipment and enlistment blanks from the head- quarters, it has been tmpossible to offi- clally enlist any recruits- today. but Mayor Quigley has dispatched a spe- cial messenger to Hartford to get'the necessary equipment and enlistments will: begin this evening. i ‘THe recruiting officers in charge will be able to fully explain the Home Guard movement and to answer any questions. = Briefly, the Home Guard is to be developed as an unorganized find & way to reconcile the differences HOLLWEG PREDICTS |TURKS, FLEE IN CAUCASUS; FRANGHISE REFORM in Govt. WAR CHANGES - CONDITIONS the Statesman Who Does Not Recognize the Sigus of the Times,” Chanccllor Says in Speech Before| Prussian Diet. London, Merch 15, 7 a. m.—A political reorganization of the German empire after the war, involving a greater share by the people in. the conduct of imperial affairs, was pre- dicted by Chancellor Von Bethmann- Hollweg, in a spee -h’' before the Prus- slan ‘diet, according to a Berlin de- spatch to Reuterys by way .of Am- sterdam. In beginning his address the . chancellor protested agajnst critizism levelled at the Reichstag by militla to_act as an\armed constabd- |ihe upper, house of the diet. ~Admit ulaty within the state whenever ths |(ing .mt cvery. parliament in Ger- national guard is away on duty. The |many is enfitled to discuss imperial men take no pledge to the govern- |yqlicies, he. reiterated previous assur- ment of the United States, but enlist | gnees that the war must lead to a! for two years to serve under the | political reorganization and that the governor as a true home guard. "They | government would, afier the close of will be uniformed and armed = and |postilities, rropose a reform of the will be drilled on the same status as | Prussian franchise, the National Guard. It has also been | “After the war,” said the chan- explained that the Home Guard will | cellor, “we shall be confronted with not be for strike duty, but for purely |the most gigantic (asks. that ever defense work, such ag patrol duty dur- | confronted a nation. They will be so ing a bad conflagration, riots, protec- | gigantic4that the entire peple will tion of municipal. buildings, - water | have to work to solve them.. A strong ‘works, etc. forelgn policy will be egec:nmry. l‘oy Recruiting Instructions Issued. we._shall be surround y enemenl Vi ith - loud Recruiting instructions have been | WRIM we shall not meet ,w lssued and are printed below. To. ''l03 Dut with the.internal strugsle some. they may appear rather am-| ".\ve can only pursue such a policy biguous, but a careful perusal Willl,r yne patriotism jwhich during the show that almost anybody 1s eligible | y,. 55, geveloped to such A 'mar- and further information will be given| yojious reality is maintained and by the local officers: strengthened.” Applicants for enlistment will be “Puoplc M e examined by surgeons appointed for toplc Must Have, Voice, " He went on to declare that the that purpose, Unmarried men between -the ages | Mailitenance of patriotism could only ! be achieved by granting the people in | of 18 and 45, who are physically fitL and liable for service in the National [Senerat equal .co-operation in the ad- | ministration of the empire. Guard or the Naval Militia of the ™I B ‘state of Connecticut, will- not be en- wh‘: ";o:‘.’ :':; :g‘;?;‘::e“rmeh;m:‘“‘g‘f L home o the ages |the times and who, atter, this cata of 18 and 45, wha are physically fit | troPhe, the like of which the world / for service in the National Guara or.|Nas never seen, believes that he can’ the United States arm % take up his work at the same point at shiould application at the vy: | which it was Interfupted. I will d RRAS meke app! on at the re-|yote my last efforts to the carrying cruiting. stations of such = organiza-|oue. of these ideas. of making our Hok, peoplo strong. /Only one thought fills | ‘All nren between the ages of 18 and 45, residents in towns or adjacent.to those towns in which. a unit of the National Guard is maintained, are liable for service in the. National Guard and should not seek enlistment in the Home Guard until the Nattonal come members, are ‘énlisted. to the All men between the ages of 17 and ent in towns in which a unit “Natfonal Guard is not main- fr is not.adjacent to a road; Milton H. Smith, who is presi- o d - KERMANSHAH IS CAPTURED Mrs. Carl Beyer of Linden Street Drinks Carbolic Mentally unbalanced; it is. believed, because of constant brooding aver the tragedy of Elsie Parsons’ "death a week ago by the same agency, Mrs. Carl Beyer of .29 Linden.street, aged forty-two years, wife of Carl Beyer and mother of seven children, drained the contents of a four ounce|vial of carbolic acid shortly befare noon to- day.. With. her seven. months old child. laughing and. cooing_in .a crib by her side and other children playing in the sunshine outside, she lay down on a couch and soon lapsed. into un- consciousness after a iperiod of ' great agony. - Her last. conscious,sight. was of her baby and' five years old daugh- | ter, Mary, who saw _her mother go into the pantry.with a bottle in one of her hands and, upon returning, M down op the couch. ¥ Detecting a suspicious odér and noting her ‘unconscious’ ‘condition upon returning home_ from work at noon, Mr. Beyer sent in an emergency call for Dr. J. E. Martin. - The latter hurriedly called’ police and fire head- quarters for the ambulance and lungmotor. ‘Wagher ‘ responded ' with the former . while ' Chaufteur E..J. Wopds, Cap- tain' Eugene F. Barnes and Lieutenant Frank A, Gilligan of Engine Co. No. 1" responded .with. the latter ,jn Chief : Dame's -car. ' "Herolc treatraent - was given. | Little more - than - hreéathing and . with, no hopes .of recovery. held out, she was rushed to New Britain .General hospital Dr. Frank Zwick was called into the case later. It was found out that she made two attempts to buy the acid this mornin; the second attempt being success It was between 8:30 and 9:00 o’clo K when a boy came to Thomas Dyson of 368 Arch street, clerk at the East End pharmacy, and wanted twenty- five cénts’ worth of acid for a woman living in that' vicinity. He said that Policeman Frederick into ‘effect of the eight hour day. ,With the exception of the notable German retiremeént on the Franco- Belgian front, which, whether volun- | tary or forced is still continuing, the most” interesting ‘ military ' movements at present in progess are those in western Persia and Mesopotamia. Disorganized by their defeats at Kut-el-Amara and before Bagdad, Ithc Turkish forces in that section of Mesopotamia are retreating up the Tigris. Eastward across the Mesopotamian border, in Persia, two columns - of Russians are advancing towards the {line of the Turkish retreat driving other Turkish forces before them. One of these colums has captured lKerminsh&h. after defeating the Turks in ‘a ‘two days' battle. To the northwest another column | is pressing southward and has ad- vanced from Sakkiz to Near Bane, only_ 10 milés from the Mesopotamian frontier. 4 8 Both these Russian _armies.. are: threatening the main Turkish forces in Mesopotamia, retreating . under the Britiéh ‘préssure from Bagdad with Mosul probably their objective. . From Bane, the Russians are within 150 miles across country from Mosul in the Turkish rear, while the fast- | moving' Russian force at Kermanshah, | while /still” 186 miles from Samaria, | constitutes: a « seripus menace to 'the Turkish flank in' this field of long dis- tances, and rapid troop movements. . The. only other way,of retreat for the. apparently. outnumbered and out i maneuvered. Tupkish ‘armies - lies to the westward, whefre.‘communications are lacking and the country difficult. . Kermanshah Captured. Petrograd, March ‘15, via London.— | The Turks are in retreat on the Cau- casus front, pursued by the Russians, the war office announces. Kerman- { shah ‘has begen captured. i Petrograd has been shut off from I'the ‘outside world for several days iand - the foregoing despatch is the first ;\word received from that source WLL® RESUME DISCUSSION #-nhyus‘ Reprcsentatives Positive They Will MakeNo Bargain Until Supreme Court Passes on Adamson Eight Hour Law. ,New York, Maré¢h 15.—With no an- nouncement as to whether any agree- ment has ‘been reached, the joint con- ference today between the four chiefs of the railroad brotherhoods and the raflroad managers. to consider the de- mands of the brotherhoods for an im- mediate settlement -of the eight hour | | discussion until four o’clock this af- ternoon. "It was learned, however, that the adjournment was taken to give time for the managers to consider in sep- arate session the ultimatum presented by -the chiefs threatening a strike un- less their demands’ were complied ‘with.’ The managers were to giva their answer at four o'clock. . | The 400,00 railroad bretherhood men, according to ‘their spokesman, ‘W. G. Lee, are determined to get the ¢ight hour day now because, should| war come, patriotism - would | make them feel obliged to stay at wrok. “We feel oonfident,” says a state- ment issued by the managers, ‘“that controversy adjournéd after an hour's | | Railroad Bridge @ Nevar River at Peff Swedish 'l’_apqts'/ MOBS STORM SE TROOPS USE D] ! tion Decree and Sets' Up N crnment With Rodsiauko s Imperidi Minister #s Tmf 30,000 Troops in Capital ulace and Me M‘/ jon A’ sucdesstul revolution -hg { place ‘in -Rtussia, according received through Berlin toda# bodyin@what is stated to b Ang report issued in Petrograd. The l€ad in the movement ing to the despatch was ta | dums, which refused to i solutfon order, continued its and organized a provisionat ment, headed by M. Rods ident of .the duma. ” The, imperial ‘ministers, state, were dismissed and " The people ot Petrograd troops there numbering clared to have supported. tionists who hold complete of the capitol. Order is been nearly restored by the patriotism and loyalty of cur men’ will not counténance any rash move- ment which may seriously embarass the government and give the impres- & sion outside our horder that . this country is torn by industrial strife nd, therefore, is easy proy . to ' .any foreign foe.” “It is too late for them to embar-- No Bargain, Managers Say. ° The. railroad managers entered the conferénce today with the deolaration that they would make no bargain us» ilaw. The brotherhoods insist that the provisions of the Adamson law be put into effect at once as of Jan, 1, They demand ten hours pay for eight hours work and pro rata pay for all overtime. The important differefice between these demands and those sub- mitted last December, when the rail- road situation first reached a. crisis, is that the latter called for time ‘and a half pay for overtime work. The position of the employes when the conference opéned was that if these -demands were not strike would begin next ' Saturday night and extend through the country within the next three days. ¥ / . Jomployes May Compromise, Chicago, March 15.—It was .said here this afternoon by one in a posi- tion to know that the railtoad brot! erhoods’ compromise proposition calls for an eight hour day with,pay only for nine hdurs, instead of ten'as orig- inally demanded. : It would establish also a proportionate rate where pay is based on mileage made. MEXICANS TN BA | Bandits and Govermment Troops Clash Forty Miles West of Santa Anna— Many Wor Regulars Seen. ‘Washington, March 15.—Reports of heavy fighting between Mexican troops | and Villa bandits at Trincheras, forty miles west of Santa Anna, came to the war department today by way of No- gales. i f H General Gomez,. ocmmanding the de facto troops, and the bandits, un- der command of Gen. Reyna, began fighting on the morning of March 13 and the battle still was In progreas at noon the following day. Eight.auto- mobile loads of wounded*: de - facto troops were reported taken into Santa Anna. Major General Pershing has report+ she wanted it “good and strong and 'since the official statement of Monday. | ed that tha last of the National Guard not weak.” poison. About an hcur later - Mrs. Bever visited the drug store and suc- ceeded in securing thé desired acid, There was a pathetic scene at the gave rise to considerable <speculation i as to the dituation in Russia. | The official "statement indicates a vigorous Russian offensive on a wider me and all of us at present—how 0|, 101 when husband and children | front in. Persia than had been pre- end the war victoriously. As the war can only be won by the exertion of; our greatest possible man power, I have freely spoken my thoughts on the internal policies of our people for | the future.” WARSHIP ACCEPTABLE | Washington, '‘March 15.-—Japan's’ offer of 4 warship to bring home the body of the late:Ambassador Gu fl,g‘i accepted today. SPhe y restrictions ag’ rg Rpokptay il hEE | gathered around the cot upon which i Viously the unconscious .and terribly burned body of wife: and mother. (Continued on Ninth Page,) reported. The capture of { Kermanshah was reported unofficially from London yesterday. German Retircment Quickens. London, March 15.—Brigadier Gen- eral ! Frederick B. Maurlce, chief di- rector of military operations at the British war office, today told the As- sociated Press that the withdrawal of the Ge 'rom the ‘Bucquyoy ’e, He did not secure the K The absence of the war office reports | troops on the border will moveé home-* ward by March 21, four days earlier than had béen expected. DRIVEN 'OUT ‘BY FLAMES. til the supreme court had ruled onl b the constitutionality of the Adamson , Das been open rei granted al ‘“,l‘eh 15 'his ‘man is, quoted ‘citjes -of ‘Russia aince th Especially violent riots ito have occurred in ‘P Saturday, shops being 5to] mobs, - According to this infe | publi¢ation of:newspapers: pended - and’ the authorities pl s warning the pccpld meiniindoors: to avold ‘danger; Thé Nyheloter th travelers from Peéu i re) {similar disturbances eccurrpd’ | Friday; tbat Lho, soldiors! wi ipelied to use their sabros; many persons were wounded, Despagches from Stockholm: ure sent by cable vie Londo {instance the telegraph to {the wireless: evidontly .were: to avoid British censorship, Reports of Separste’ ‘Waghington, March 15, {tion tn Russia has been such sccrecy of Tate that exact knowledge of. it here. Tor some ime v 7 revolution ‘or 'a, separatd Germany have rcached he | through ' Gerrhan sources. iocn.flon Russian officials-ha 1 them. DROPS. EIGHTEEN 10 Rudolph - Mats, . Chicago Eithér Jumps Or Falls ‘ 5 New York, March. & 15.- Matz, aged 67. an attorne: cago, was killed early today: ing of jumping from the, wi his room on the eighteentith the Hotel Belmont. -~ Mr. Mats here Saturday accompanied. b svite and s nursp for treatmen law firm of Mats, Fisher. forier Betretary of tie’ William C. Boyden. " ¥ of -Otto ‘H. " 'Matz. & More Than 700 Hotel Guests Flee Fire |- in Safety. Los Angeles, March 15.—More thah 700 persons were forced to the-streets scantily clad by .a fire that destroyed a wing of -the Hotel Rosalyn jsere to-+| Het! day. None was injured. 3 £ Firemen carried many Women and children down the fis Mpés. Three invallds, two of them i‘dmen, were ‘cafried ‘out and rembved to hospitals. ‘The fire is believed to have started i) - ' botel ludch room.. The damh sstimated at $100,000. i & from bullet wounds,’ 1 here today. Heth s reported to have m g ent before he died, saying: Vawter fired the shots.