New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1917, Page 1

' e sble to supply 60 per cent.’ g FOOD SPECULATORS GOUGE |CAMPAIGN BRINGS [AUSTRIA MENACED |H. O. CADWELL IN CREW O FORTUNES OUT OF PUBLIC| |N $20,137 MORE . Hoover Tells Senators How Gamblers Run Riot By Cornering Market and Forcing Prices Up. CENTRAL DIRECTOR THE ONLY REMEDY . ', to Fight and We Should Find Our- "4 selves Alone Against Germany,” He Says—Coutrol of Production Not, . Washington, June 19.—Food spec- ulators have been taking $50,000,000 & month for the last five months—a total of & quarter of a billion dollars s—from the Ameri people, Her- .bert C. Hoover today told senators in 4 .explaining the purposes-of the food control bill now before congress. i/ Disclaiming entirely that the bill {31 8€ts up a food dictatorship, Mr. i.. Hoover told senators its ' purposes 3 entirely -to organize the re- of the country and the people themselves. ; { *With righteous manufacturers’ and distributors’ prices,” he said, “the grice ‘of flour. shoul:d not have been | over $9 a barrel. Yet It averages $14. . In the last five months, $250,- 000,000 has been extracted from the American people in excess of mormal profits of manufaeturers and distrib- Not a single trade organisation, he told the senators, is opposed to the food control bill. The' itol early today to explain the bill informally to senators in the hope s CHILDREN SHATTERED 'MENTALLY AND BODILY Brutal Treatment of German Physical Wrecks. Behind the British Lines in France, -June 1 (Correspondence of the Asso- ‘clated Press).—The French children found in the villages of northern France evacuated by the Germans un- der the pressure of the British and French advance present a picture of the savagery of modern warfare as as the Somme forest, shattered and broken by months of shell fire. Many of these children are orphans without home gr relatives. Many have béen grievously wounded. Most of them suffer from a peculiar species of shell-shock Wwhich affiicts them gen- erally with & sort of tremor not uniike St. Vitus dance. They have had life and death, hor- rors human and {nhumane revealed to them in gtises so terrible that they never will be quite normal again. All} are underfed and frail from eonfine- ment In cellars. Cut off: suddenly from relatives and friends perhaps two years ago they have continued to- live within a few hundred yards of | the front lines listening always to thud of shells and the crash of ex-~. plosives, until their idea of Heaven “a place that is very quiet.” The ¢onditfon of pessant men an the shadow of the invader through bad enough, but ‘the condition of Red Cross and Y. M. C. &, Krmy Camp Funds Now Total $33,887 | May Yots Down War Buiget: | GERMAN GRAIN CROPS BURN CORBIN'S TRAM CHERHED Reports $6,620 Contribution at Noon~ Day Luncheon Today—Rev. W. F. Cook and” Charies F. Smith Speak— O, P. m_ Promises, Surprise. The second . $113,600 for the Red (m“:d‘:h‘u;t M. C. A. Army Camp fund brought re- sults that were very gratifying to the workers. The returns from the ' va- rious teams and the corporation sub- scriptions totaled $20,137, bringing the total amount to date $32,987. Of the Various teams, the one captained by Philip Corbin took the honors today ‘when subscriptions amounting to $8,- 620 were reported lamid a_burst.of applause that lasted several minutes. The complete returns from the teams is as follows: E. Allen Moore, capt.}...$1,145 2, P. Corbin, capt. . 6,620 M. D. Saxe, capt. 810 E. H. Cooper, capt. . ‘W. J. Farley, capt. 8, G. S. Talcott,, capt. 7, P. Crona, “es 8, W. T. Bloper, capt. 9, H. L. Platt, capt. .. 10, E. M. Wightman, capt. .. 1,915 Chairman Bennett read a telegram . recetved | from President Wilson by Mayor Quigley, in which the object ‘and aims of the Red Cross week des- ignated from June 18 to 25 are out- lined and with hopes that the work ‘|in this will be as grand a success as the Liberty Loan campaign. = =« President E. M. Wightman of the Y. M. C. A. spoke briefly to the as- *} semblage concerning the sending away Jof three of the leading workers of the that a full understanding of its ob- | constituting one of the most important immediate tasks of the French and British. One French organization has a hos- pital with four hundred child patients all under 12 years, most of them wonnded. Some have lost legs or | arms, others their sight, others are “The allies’ are dependent wupon ‘North America for the vast majority of their food imports. We moul«: of "what they require. The other 40 per . cent. must be made up by further denial on their part and sdiving on ours. We can increase our surplus. & ropean population will 1#;’ and we should find ourselves al . i temporary zed- rests on government for failure of democracy through a shortage of 7 murning ‘to domestio conditions, Mr. ‘Hoover said this country has been ex- - -periencing *unprecedented prices and rampant speculation’ citing how mjd- “dlemen and all other persons in the distribution ' process have been pur- chasing increasing supplies to avert + shortages., Bought Before Production He cited the canning trade as an ex- ample, where the entire ocutput-of veg- etables and fish for 1917 has been dis- {“ posed of before it has reached the \ canners. He predicted further high prices. Thousands of men, he said, who: heretofore have never owned a dollar's worth of foodstuffs are now speculating in necessities. ‘The average prices to the con- sumers in. countries where food ad- _ ministration is now in effect are lower than those prevailing in the United States” he sald.” In England the price of bread is 25 per cent below the price we pay. I WeMeve that unless some administration of our food is takén we will look back at these prices as being moderate,” Mr. Hoover denied that the bill es- tablished a food dictatorship. He characterized the purposes of food ad- « ministration as to mobilize the people in order to carry out the advice given them by the government officials in to centralize the functions of food administration into the va- states. _#A commission to take charge of the production and distribution of flour, sugar and potatoes and possibly afew other necessities is now being plated, said Mr. Hoover. setting up a wheat commission e can buy wheat, regulate its stor- age and transportation and handle it * antil exported or sold in this country. ¢ we do not do this wheat prices may Telapse on account of our not being able to store and carry it, with spec- ulators securing the sole benefit and farmers bearing the loss. “We can contract tomorrow with the allies for a certain return for every s bushel of wheat we can gell. By con- |, lling prices at interior terminals we :‘:n as':a:ra‘ millers their supplles and simplify the question. As to sugar, Mr. Hoover said Amer- 'jcan refiners are competing with the Allies in Cuba and that the proposed sugar commigtion icould s Yiperaje on Ninth Page) S (Co’nunue(j_ B suffering from Dbrain fever or,a Pus- sling ansemia under which they rape:| idly waste away. “They are victims of the ruthless-. ness of modern -warfare,” sald the- head of thedospital,.a French womans) wearing the uniform of the French Red Crose. “There is no better argu- ment agalnst war than to see these- mutilated lttle victims who will never play or enjoy life as other children: do,” BEATEN FOR GIVING _ TIP ON MISS CRUGER bl?upe Afln&_w Strange Men, She Tells Police. New York, June 19.—A woman giving the name of Miss Consuelo La Rue was found early today in a vacant lot suffering from injuries by a fall from an open window. said she had jumped from her room to escape two men who had attacked her because sho’ gave information ‘which led to the discovery of the body of Ruth Cruger. The men called her the door of her apartment, the woman said, on the pretext of having a telegram to deltver. One of them, she added, grabbed her by the throat and sald: “You are not going to tell anything more.” Police officers who discovered the. injured woman searched her room but found mo trace of visitors or a struggle other than an overturned chair and a ‘broken window, Among other detalls of the Cruger cass developed today was the finding of a dsrk grey chauffeur’s uniform buried in the tunnel that hid the nn rdered girl's body. - TO RECEIVE RUSSIANS. State Department Plans Welcome to Mission From New Republic, ' ‘Washington, June 19.—High offi- clals of the state department formed a reception committee to meet the Russian mission today. The misesion is equipped with full powers of ne- gotiation and will act in a capacity similar to the American mission now in Petraograd, The mission has kept in touch with the home situation by telegraph wire and cable and will be able to pro- ceed at once to business with this government. DYNAMITERS SHOOT GUARD Private Wounded in Fight With Two Prowlers Intent on Blowing Up Railroad Tunnel in Montana, Missoula, Mont., June 19.—Private 1. E. Haines, a guard was shot in the foot last night in a fight with two supposed dynamiters who attemptted to force their way iInto a railroad tunnel. - association to the Y. M. C. A. camp to be installed , Camp Quantico on the Potomac river, 36 miles south of ‘Washington, D. C., where the marines are receiving instructions. He said that at a meeting of the directors last evening, permission was granted to General Secretary C. H. Barnes, J. B. Gripp, membership secretary, and Warren 8. Slater, physical director. These men expect to leave about July 26 and will be gone until the middle’ ‘Two college profeasors will accompany .the local delegation In the absence of Secre- Barnes, Rev. J. W. Denton of Plainville, who has had considerable lexperience in Y. M. C. A work will be in charge of the assoclation. In closing President Wightman said that it will be seen that the local men are wiling to serve as well as give their money for their country. Men, Not Acres Rév. Warren F. Cook, pastor .of Trinity Methodist, church was the next speaker. Recalling his arrival in this city two years ago, the speaker said that exercises in connection with the 26th anniversary of the church were in progress and on the occasion when the late Rev. Dr. James W. Cooper was delivering the talk, he recalled him relating a story concerning two men who were discussing the merits of New Britain and why it succeeded so well. One of the men could not see how progress was so rapid here where there were no river facilities and other natural resources. The second man, however, assured him that this was overcome by the spirit which the busi- ness men of the city went about doing big things. Mr. Cook said he has seen two mplendid campaigns conducted here, the Boys’ club and the “Liberty Loan,” and it was a pleasure to note that the best of the city’s business men were now at the helm in the effort to raise $112,600 for so notable a work. Discussing the war, Mr. Cook saild that the nation was now confronted with the most Titanic affair of its kind the civilized world has ever known, d which he hoped-would be the last. “Germany, the most intelligent, des- perate and heathenish country, is ready to put forth every resource to win this war,” the speaker said. To offset this, was a tremendous task, for in Germany this country is contesting with a nation that has for 40 years trained with the utmost hopes for the domination of the world, and the peo- ple of this nation must realize this. In conclusion, Mr. Cook extended his hopes that present campaign would like the *Liberty Loan" campaign, be tar oversubscribed. C. F. Smith on Patriotism. . Chairman Bennett introduced Charles F. Smith, president of Lan- ders, Frary & Clark company and one of the most conversant men on cur- rent matters in this city. Mr. Smith harkened his listeners back to the days of the Revolutionary War, of the sacrifices put forth by the gallant army of that day, and later the sign- ing of the Declaration of Independ- ence which gave to the people of thig government so much happiness and freedom. Delving. into the war sit- uation, Mr. Smith said for the past three years this country has grown very rich through the agency of the war, where millions of men have sac- rificed their lives on the fields of bat- tle and as many more have died from ather effects. ‘These men, the speak- er said, were fighting our battle, and this fact is being brought to our at- tention more vividly every hour. Mr. Smith said he was proud of the bays (Continued on Ninth Page.) BY POLISH REVOLT Representatives in Parliament OPENLY Deputy Dasninsk) Deciares More Than Pan-German Mobbed for - Urging Copenhagen, via Londén, June 19. —The revolt of. the Poles in the Aus- trian Parliament is' described by the Vienna. correspondent of the Vossiche Zeltung as -having -produced a crisis in which the position not only of Pre- mier Clam-Martinic but also of Count Czernin, the ' foreign ' minister, is threatened. A majority of the German papers treat the ‘news with the greatest re- serve, and the govérnment organs in Vienna hold out ‘hopes that the crisis may: be overcome by 'granting a few ministerial - posts’to Polish ‘and .other parliamentarians.. The Cissiche Zel- tung correspondent, however, points out thlt'At.he -defection. of the Poles is sufficient to. turn the scales:against the government since the rest of the Slav bloc already is in opposiion. The Poles indicated their intentions to vote against the budget, being the first parliamentary. group in any bellige- rent country, aside from.a 'bandtul of soclalists, in refusing to vote a war credit. The insistence of Premier 'Clam- Martinic on Saturday. that the Poles should show ‘their colors is described as due to the jritiative of Cotnt Czern~ in. The Polish aspiration aim 't pracs tically an independent kingdom open- ly on an antiGerma basis and have evoked marked displeasure ' in Ger- many. 4 Says 30,000 Were Hanged s Zurich, via Paris, June 19.—The PolMsh deputy Dassinski declared in the Vienna Reichsrath 30,000 Poles have m”ww der of the Getman authorities aceord- | ing to Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung, which prints special details of the sittings of the Reichsrath on the 14th and 15th. Deputy Strubiny also described the abominable treatment accorded political suspects whereupon the Pan- Germanist deputy ' Heine shouted: “They havent’ used the rope enough; all of them ought to haye been hanged.” b At these words all of the Slavs and Poles rushed on Heine and the presi- dent was obliged to suspend:the sft- ting in the midst of & great uproar. GERMAN PENSIONS SMALL Campaign for Funds Brings Down Wrath of Vorwaerts, Indignant at Imadequacy of Public Allowances. Copenhagen, via London, June 19. —German newspapers print an initial appeal for the collection of a great national fund to supplement pensions for war cripples and the families of soldiers in the same fashion as wid- ows and other dependents of fallen soldlers are now assisted from a found collected by popular subscrip- tion. The government pensions are described utterly inadequate and in- stances are cited by figures from the Rhine district where the pensions for ‘men with families is only 67 marks. The Vorwaerts calls it a crying shame and a disgrace to appeal to private generosity for the relief which a grateful fatherland should grant adequately from the public treasury. ¥ AMBULANCE WORKERS SAFE. Robert C. Vance Believed to Be dn French Soil. Paris, June 19.—An American am- bulance detachment of 250 persons has arrived at a French port.. W. K. Vanderbilt of New York crossed on the same steamer. : . It is believed that Robert C. Vance, Yale '18, son of Mrs. R. J. Vance of 169 Maple street, is omne of the am- bulance contingent mentioned in the above despatch. He sailed on'June 9 from New York. PROPELLER KILLS AVIATOR. New York, June 19.—Willlam K. Carruthers, a Sergeant in the First Aviation Corps of the United Stutes Army and undergoing instruction at the Mineola Field, died yesterday aft- ernoon as the result of injuries which he had received by falling against the whirling propeller of an airplane in which he was about to make a flight. WEATHER. Hartford, June 19.—For Hartford and vicinity: Cloudy, probably. chowers tomight or Wednesdny ; moderately warm. A e i R TANKER SUNK BY U-BO! GILLIGAN JURY 1§ NEARING COMPLETION Ten Selected When Court Recesses\ Early This Afternoon. ANTI-6ERMAN| UP UNDER LONG HEAT WAVE \ ; Harttérd, June 19.—Four places in the jury box were to be filled when the trial of Mrs. Amy E. Archer-Gil- ligan, who had a home for elderly people, for murder, was resumed to- day. Indications were that the need- ed jurors will be obtained without exhausting the panel of 100 talesmen. If this is accomplished quickly Mrs. Gilligan will be called upon to plead to the indictment during the day- Henry E. Hart, of Southington, chosen as juror No. 2 yesterday, was excused by Judge Greem’ on the ground of physical condition. One additional juror had been se- lected up till noon, making the num- ber 'eight. The eighth man was Albert C. gxwold of Wethersfield an insurance and son of Frederick A. Gris- ‘wold, also an insurance agent chosen yesterday. Albert Griswold was the twenty-second talesman examined to- day- -Of the panel 72 have now been called. * Questioning of counsel today fol- lowed closely that of yesterday. Mrs. Gilligan took much interest in the proceeding. She looked at the tales- men attentively and talked with Mr. Holden, her senior counsel. ‘When court recessed at 1 o'clock two more jurors had been accepted. Timothy C. Tiffany, farmer, of Hart- land, and George Lyman, retired farmer of Manchester. 4 Belgian Government . Denies Wolft | Bureau Assertion. Havre, June 19.—The Belgian gov- ernment in an official statement is- sued” today denounces the bad faith of the denial of the Wolff bureau on June 7 of the continuation of the de- portation of Belgians. The denial, the government declares, avoids the essential facts and concerns itself only with the question of the places to which Belgians had been deported. The Belgian government maintains that the deportations Continue and that they did not cease as the Wolff bureau stated on February 10. S DR T s . BOSTON MAN DECORATED. Boston, .June 19.—France has dec- orated C. 8. Stewart Forbes, member of a prominent Boston family, with the Croix de Guerre for distinguished bravery in the bringing out wounded under fire in the western Europe battle front. News of the award of the war cross was contained in a message from Elliott Norton, director of the Harjes-Norton Ambulance sections, made public today. Mr. Forbes joined the American Red Cross ambulance service a year ago. PRISONERS TO WORK FARM, Twenty Inmates of New Havem In- { stitution Garden Brigade. Ansonia, June 19.—Twenty inmates of the New Havenjrounty jail were to be taken today to the farm of E. B, Clark company in Miiford, to help in the work thgre. The prisoners will be in charge of an armed guard. This is being done as a sort of experiment in this county. For some years the inmates of Litchfleld county jail have been employed in working the roads and doing other wodk. v CUBAN REBELS IN NEW YORK. New York, June 19.—Five Cubans said ta have been implicated in the recent uprising and who had taken refuge in Hayti reached here today on a Dutch ship in custody of Ameri- can officers. HINT OF IMMEDIATE DRAFT IS WORD FROM THE CAPITOL Bridgeport, June 19.—A telegram recejved by Lieut. Gov. Wilson today summoning him to Hartford this af- ternoon to meet with the State Coun- cil of Defense to take actlon te com- plete Connecticut’s quota of soldiers was interpreted here aus the !first move in preparation for a state draft to fill units of the Connecticut Na- tional Guard, that still are below war strength. Recruiting for voluntary enlistment New Britain Ma - gineer on Joht - Archbold Desi Prospects for Harvest in Vi- [ At e fiide En Route to U Bad By Neutral Reaching | BROTHER PROMII Copenhagen. AT THE POST O Copenhagen, 'via London, June 19. —Throughout Germany, according to reports here, all valuable grain crops are burning up as they did in 1915 in an unprecedented heat wave. A prolonged drought has not been broken since early in' May. . Berlin on Sunday experienced the hottest June 17 on record in the 70| Last Saturday. years’ experience of the weather bu-| 'y o York, June ‘19.—Tia re steamer John D. Arehbo‘d Oder river. News reports of horse |Standard Oil company has racés and other sporting events feat- |Ly 3 submarine; The ‘ann ure ‘“the terriffic abnormal scorching” | was made at the offices heat. Many horses wers scratched o ! on the opening day of the Hambure | P*™Y here today:- Four m | Derby wéek because the track, Marshy Jthe crew were’ 1 o {Corner Mpore, was baked -to6 hard}¥as sent to the bottgm for safety. in European waters. : < The weather bureau states that the | The John D. Archbold o vas ty prospects for rain or lower temper- | Ut enroute to = this co atures are very slight. The effect of { France. the drought on grain crops around | ~The ship was armed znd Berlin where only eight millimeters |CT®% from an' American w of rain have fallen since May 1. 1s | board. described by a neutral who arrived 5 here Friday as almost a catastrophe. |® f 8,374 ' tons g The Sunday sermon writer in the {¢¥ned by the Standard O Berlin Kreuz Zeitung, who recently |14 bu:g in 1914 -t N o indulged in a most startling blending | The ship left here May of religion and polities,” deciared on | 214 Rouen, France with Sunday that the drought’ was sent as | th€ command of Cap a punishment for the sins of the peo- | With & crew of 41 mes, ple for listening to the editors of |Wore Americans .~ newspapers and asked how long it| The records here would be before this divine chastise- |NoW Enslanders: ment would bring the people to a|™Vere: 2T 5 % sense of the iniquities. 3 .« W. L. Smith, second . 5 nut.street, Everett, D ma Son of Mrs. Abble 7. Caaw Main and ‘South Buritt Four Members of Crew But Identity Is Not 9 veasel was an — ‘Tear Down Recruiting} Fire to Post-Ofice. Dublin, June 19.—Several demon- > J strations were held late lagt night in [CTeW Were kilied and connection ‘with the return of the re- | ' The atmed. n-qg& leased Sinn Feiners. Two men climbed | W88 commandegd the walls of the ruined post-office |Dell chief boatswain's building on which they tied the Sinn |30d home addresses o Fein flags. The.crowds sang. Sinn [CTew follow: g Fein songs and. tore down recruiting | Timothy posters. Frederick The police did not interfere until|%: L. N. about 2 o'clock this morning, when |Péul Charles two demonstrators - were = arrested | 9Tt E. Riggs] charged with breaking in the post- | Schrgeder,.Chifago;:. Lo office and setting fire to timbers. The |tery, Kenton, Qi Atbert’ police later dispersed several march- |€ag0: John Hickey ing bands. E. Matson, uem“&:fn The provisional - exeeutive of ' the |tutay, East Port Sinn Fein has decided to demand [Ham J:. Schaefo passports ‘for three of its members | I2mb, Milwauke to proceed to the United States for| . ¢ 5 5 the purpose of opposing the objects ! Harry Osborne Cadwell, of Irish party missjon there. in the above despat an No previous word has been recéived | assistant engineer of the that an Irish mission was to come to | Archbold, was formerly a. the United States. 3 man, making his home herg ! _— Hc is the son of Mrs. Ab) ANTI-DRAFTERS ACTIVE AGAIN.|Well. 'who resides at ihe. West Main and South J§ No-Conscription Litersture Distribut. [ 203 brother of Frank €. " ed Here Last Night. charge of 'the postal ra: ment of the New Britain Further proof that distributors of | and secretary. of th.jml . treasonable and anti-draft literature{mission of the post office et are still busy in the-city, although |Another brother is John' not as ‘actively as on two previous|eigineer on the steamer occasions, when the city was flooded | the, Hartford and New with circulars, was brought to the at- | portation company. . g tention of the police last night when| <Mr. Cadwell was born' in watchmen at the Stanley Rule and |ton but spent the greater pas Ievel Company’s plant telephoned to |life in New Britain. He headquarters there had been liter- | Ployed by the Electric ature scéttered about in that locality. | PARY In this city and . la It was also reported that nmo per- | Pittsfield, Mass. For t sons had been noted in the vicinity | years he had been a marin acting suspiciously. The literature is | He 18 a member of local much the same as that distributed in | odies, among them being wholesale quantities on former occa- sions. oot local relatives and it is GEN. EDWARDS AT NEW HAVEN. | Uy i1 or Mr. Cadwell was B Boston, June 19.—Brig. Gern. Ed-|went down with the ships iy wards, commander of the department 4 ‘of the northeast went to New Haven today to assist in the dedication of the new armory of the Yale artillery corps. TRY" TO SCARE OF German Fort Sheridan, I, June 19 man propaganda’ has.entered | ficers reserve training corps the opinion of officers of the lar army who are acting as f tors, and orders have been that every effort should be m: in the Connecticut National Guard |ports coucerning the risks tak has been active in various parts of the |men who go to the front in state and many volunteers have been “There has been a determi obtained, but not nearly the number|fort,” sald Major Cavenauy that is needed before the militla is]spread baseless reports th called away to the traing camps{average life of & man:in the some time next month. It is be-|is three days. I have no doubt: lieved here that the summong to the |emanats from a German lleutenant governor means that Gov- Company commanders have ernor Holcomb is about to exercise |instructed to show the st his authority and draft men jmmedi- | cers that the reports are ¢ ately to round out all the units of Jtrue and to place the the state troops, 5 them, ascertain the source of baseless @