New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1917, Page 10

‘June 27.—The advance 4 keenly realized by all the 'fln United Stats, is by no Mar to this country, or even mtries in which war condi- oked upon as the imme- of the higher prices. From 1ds of Java and India, the “of the 'Malayan Peninsula, 8 of China and Japan, the d8, of Java, Hawalj and Cu- 1 plantations of Mexico, the ines of South America and j the indigo farms of India, the lelds of the Philippines, the’ _forcsts of the ,West Indies, fent orchards of Greece, the ‘plantations of the Orient, the ne producing area of France, tion: felds of Egypt, and evem mond mines of ‘South Africa, cal proof of advance in their respective products. mpildtion by the National City New York of the prices at rigd products ef these widely iicd arcas are being sold in the of produétion, shows that the in prices is general. iited States has peculiar fa- | for determnining the prices of id-products in theéir respective production. . Her ' customs Féquire that the valuations at “merchandis¢ is imported shall of the merchandise in the from which exported -to the States, and not the value on £ the port at which it enters niry. s the values named imperters of any article, from of the world, must be the ‘which the goods were sold In o from which exported to this or if the importer does not 6 ‘riame the price which he | ¢ it, then the average price of a ! in the whélcsale markets of the | sth. which it was shipped to this 5 uzed in deurminins the | quite feasible to. determine | igé price at which any given | v ‘class of articles is sold in ry from which ' iniported, he same time d umne the. Wcfld vt price; by com-! total gquantity of all the lons of the artigle . In_ques: h the total ‘aluulon laced by the importers of the en- ntity. - If, forinstance, you know the price at which the | ching' the United ‘States ‘Brazil in any given month wes ' from that country you ‘get ation of the o ty -into’ the Then, want to rmine the price h ‘the cof of Colombia left antry. you.do so by comparing s and VAlle of the Colombia lm;orted and find the averaxe tof ‘the Cdlémbia or Venezuela tral American coffees higher vesamsy Brazilian. . If- ‘you ver, Lo determlne the 11 coffees imported in the the. ! with the month two or three or four u Mcithis by taking the rted and compar- ited value of the en- antity, n.pd you get the aver- 1d-price per pound of coffee & ‘place of exportation to the | tor the year in ques- process you de- place of profiucy thousands of arti- the United States, ded miways that the import fig- namé both quantity and stated , for the valuation is in all cases at the port or country whence fipped to the United States. fuch Gomparisons show in a very ige proportion of the cases marked ses in the values, at the place production, - of the merchandise ght into the country. Raw cot- for example, most of it from was in March, 1917, average price of 31.8c per 1b. 16.30 in March, 1914, a date nfle‘ at the port or coun- which sent to us. ' Sisal brts in March of the current year ere $303 per ton against $117 in ragch, 1914; copper 29.5¢' per lb. [gainst 14.1c three years earlier; goat 1b. against 23.7c cheese at an aver- of 84c per 1b. against 17.8¢; flax €4 at $2.39 per bushel against $1.2 \ns at $5.21 per bushel = against potatoes at $1.77 against 72c years ago; indigo at $3.00 per ‘against 15c per lb. in the same hs in 1914; logwood at $36.00 » ton against $11.00; combing wool j 43c against 24.6c in March, 1914; at 6.5c per Ib. against cop- at 29.5¢ against 14.1c three years ‘€otton . stockings at $3.27 per paia against $ 7 in March, Sugar at exactly double the years ago; currants at of 300 per cent.; while manila hemp, raw silk, pber, tin, lumber, cotton and "cloth and many ‘sdvances, some O a8 100 per cent. u.lly ground, shows &n aver- Cimport-price in March, 1917, of 'S per ton, agrinst $16.35 in July, [4; chemical pulp unblesched ;90 per ton agsinst $36.75, and fcal pulp bleached, $133. 11 per against $49.20 in 1814, All of e advances occur in the price ‘hich the merchandise in question #old in the country from which ed to the United States. El.EANOR DE CISNER OS SOPRANO NEW BRITAIN DAILY 'HERALD, SINGS IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES [n ]}~/um' h -md of Eleanor de Cisneros, the famous so- prano, is pictured here as she appears { when singing ' *“The Star Spangled Banner.”” Her golden:voice is sweliing the funds of numerous war charities, BRITISH EDITORS TURN PENS LOOSE Pour Vials of Wrath on Heads of Mesopotamian- Expedition , London, June 27:—The' report of the commission 'which has been’ in- vestigating the Mesopotamia expedi- tion is treated by the press today as a first class sensation. Editorials contain bitter Teproaches of persons | cancernéd and demand their dismis- sal. One paper calls for former Premier Asquith’s impeachment. On the other hand the Times says it is| only fair to admit that his -cabinet was led completely astray by militdry" advisers. The Times thinks the cul- pability of J. Austen Chamberlain, secretary for India almost wholly technical, The Times fiaces a large share of the blame on the late Lord Kitchener’s highly centralized control of the In- dian army. The paper says the report gaes far. to vindicate Lord Curzon’s resignation as viceroy of India twelve Years ago on the ground of ‘disagree- ment with Kitchener's scheme. Gen- eral approval is voiced of the gov- ernment’s decision to publish the re- port ‘and tell the country the truth. A comparison is drawn with Ger- many's attempts to explain Messines and other reverses .on the ' western front. Amid a flood of recriminations room is found for satisfaction that nobody who is chiefly blamed is now assoclated with .the Mesopotamian force, that the blunders have been re- trieved, and that to that extent they are less tragic than' the irrevocable collapsé of the general expedition. St L e R GERMAN INFLUENCE WANES, Successor to Dr. Hoffmann Not for Kaiser's Alms, Paris, June 27.~In an interview with the Berne correspondent of the Journal, President Shulthesis of Switserland said the representation of non-German Bwitserland in the fed- eral council had-been increased from two to three out seven by the elec- tion of Gustave Ador, who was chosen to succeed Dr. Hoffman, after the ex- posure of the latter’s participation in an attempt to 'arrange a Russo- German peace. ‘‘German svlturm has shown Sreat unselfishness,” sald President Shuithesis, “in its sincere desire to bring about the closest collaboration with French Switserland, which is so necessary to our country in these critical hours. M. Ador's colleagues welcome his entry into the federal council with great joy.” AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS. Announcement was made today ‘of the successful winners of the scholar- ships axtenided by the Men and Wo- men’s College clubs of this city. to students at the High school, for ex- cellence in studies. The award to girls went to Emma Schafer, who has lppllo‘ for admission to the Wo- man’s college in New London. In the boys' class, Stanley An- thony Plocharcvyk is the winner and he has made application for admis- ston to Wesleyan University. er 8/1(111 K/dm the Free and the and lh- has recently been d«ofint much time to the \Red Cross cause, Miss de Cisneros is a Brookiyn girl by birth an¥ is married to a Cuban plan- ter. She has sung in grand opers 1- London and America. TELLS HOW WOMAN GOT STOLEN MONEY Stock Forger Describes Giving Stolen Fands to Winsome Widow New York, June 27.—The target for | scores of feminine eyes, Mrs. Ellsa- beth Austin Briggs of 978 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, sat calmly for several hours in Jefferson Market Court yes- terday while James E. Foye made a detailed statement surrounding his theft of $100,000, of which, he said, he gave $21,000 to Mrs. Briggs, who was then Mrs. Austin. Foye, the complaining witness against Mrs. Briggs, told how he had forged ten certifiactes of General Electric stock, of his arrest and con-' viction for the crime by his employ- ers, Candler Bros, and the sentence he served in a Pennsylvania peniten- Hary. Foye said to Magistrate Krotel that on October 23, 1918, he dined at Shan- ley’s with Mrs. Austin, then a widow, He told her he expected to make some easy money in a few days. A few days later he called on the woman at her home in Sterling Place, Brooklyn, again telling her of the easy money in prospect, which he said would to- tal $250,000. On November 14, he sald he dined again at Shanley’s with Mrs. Austin and told her he had the money and that he had sent his wife $20,000. He sald ' Mrs. Austin re- marked that she thought she was en- titled to a sum equal to that the wife received. Five days later they met by appointment in Haan's restaurant in Park Row, where he gave her the, money, $21,000," advising her to de- posit it at once in a bank, but not to mention his name in giving her refer- ences at the bank. He. said they entered a taxjcab and drove to the Astor Trust Company, Mra. Austin insisting en route that he count the money for her, saying she never saw such a large sum at one time before. As she took the money from him, Foye sald, Mrs. Austin re- marked, “You are far better to me than my husband ever was.” They met later the same afternoon at the ‘Waldorf-Astoria. Cross-examined by John B. Doyle, ‘counsel for Mrs. Briggs, Foye told of his pardon and his release from pris- on. He said he met Norman J. Pitz- simmons, a private detective, through a fellow convict. Prior to meeting Fitzsimmons he had called on F. Fos- set Briggs, husband of the defendant, but because he had a friend with him Briggs refused to discuss the case. But later they had a “man to man talk.” Foye said that had Briggs returned him the $21,000 so he could restore it to Candler Bros. he would not have soughe Fitzssimmons. Up to this time he had restored $70,000 of the stolen money. ‘The rest had been used to pay Wall Btreet and other debts and $10,000 was lost on an election bet. ‘William J. Lemont, who in 1913 was teller at the women’s ‘window in the Astor Trust Company but now with the Bankers Trust Company, identified Mrs. Briggs as the women who on November 18, 1913, deposited $21,000 with himi. She withdrew the sum, he said, on May 20 following. Magistrate Krotel declined to hear any more witnesses for the people say- ing that & prima facie case had been made out. He adjourned the heann‘ until July 6. P Lo ‘ocratic spirit into German ‘choosing. to ignore the size of CHANGELLOR HIT BY GERMAN EDITORS Yon Bethmanu -Hollweg Subjected to Griticism in Press June 27.—Germany’s in ‘their - customary deal harshly with Copenhagen, leading - editors. Monday ‘articles, i the government in gencral, and Chan- cellor Von Bethmann-Holiweg in pal ticular. Theodore Wolff, in the “Tageblatt,” reads the chancellor a lecture for de- claring through the *“North. German Gazette” that President Wilson 1s niore of an autocrat than Emperor Nicholas was, pointing out that Pres- ident Wilson in the most important question to be decided, whether war should. be declared, had to obtain " a favorable vote from the congress. Herr Wolff's reference to this fact is made in the course of an appeal to the. German people immediately to set about the work of the inner re- formation .of the state as its most pressing task. Eugen Zimmermann, in the “Lokal Angzeiger,” which is now controlled by the pan-Gerinans, takes the opposite tack and holds up Russia as a hor-¢ rible example to those Germans who | are desirous of introducing the dem- institu- tlons. . | The existing system. he declares, is responsible for - Germany's ' brilliant vietgries. In closing, with an attack on Chancellor Von Bethmann-Holl- weg, Herr Zimmermann asserts that the newspapers which are working for ‘“bad democracy’” in Germany have absolutely no support by tho German people—the writer evidertly, the German socialist vote. . In his desire to condemn the chan- cellor for falling to declare Spenly and plainly Germany's war aim pro- gram, Georg Bernhard. in ‘the “Vos- sische Zeitung,” who has been main- taining that the submarine campaign ‘was rapidly bringing the war to 2 successful end, now says that Ger- mans must recognize that if this' end is.to be attained by military means, it will be only after long delay, and that statesmanship must be brought into play. Herr Bernhard’s belief is that it is possible to conclude a separate peace with Russia.. The radicals and so- clalists evidently have come to the belief that only a gemeral peace 18 possible, while other camps favor the taking from Russia of all imperialis- tic Germany could desire. MME. STEINHEIL IS MARRIED TO LORD Was Arrested in 1809 for Murder of Her Husband and Step- mother. London, June 27.—Mme. de Serig- nac, revealed by London newspapers recently as Mme. Marguerite Stein- heil, whose trial in Paris in 1909 for . the murder of her husband and her stepmother attracted international attention, was married yesterday in the Wesleyan church at Roupell Park to Lord Abinger. ' The latter succeeded to his title last month and is now a lieutenant of the naval re- serve. Mme. Steinheil, who is forty-eight years old, developed as a power in France when she was but twenty-six years: old by becoming the closest friend and political confidante of Fe- lix Faure, president of the republic. Documents of high political import left to her By the president when he died, in 1899, were believed to con« stitute the motive of the mysterious murder of, Mme. Steinheil’s husband and stepmother, Mme. Japy. Early on the morning of May 31, 1908, Adolph Steinheil, who was an artist, and Mme. Japy were found strangled to death in their home in Paris. In an adjoining room. was found Mme. Steinheil, bound and gagged, but unharmed. To the po- lice Mme. Steinheil declared that the murders had been committed by three masked men and a Wwoman, who had first demanded the political documents left to her by President Faure, together with'a $100,000 pearl necklace which he had given her. That story she has stuck to ever since. The police closed the case without identifying the murderers, but in- sinuations againts Mme. Steinheil 8rew so persistent that she finally de- manded and obtained a trial, af which she was triumphantly acquit- ted. Since then she has lived in England. K ELECTION OF OFFICERS. A. H. Petts was elected chancellor commander of W. L. Morgan lodge, K. of P, at the meeting held last evening. Other officers elected are as follows: Vice-commander, F. R. Dolan; prelate, H. W. Clock; master of ‘Work, Thomas Dyson; master at C. Steiner; inside guard, D. ‘V. DeMers; outside guard, Fred Sundman. Installation of officers will take place July 10, with Deputy B. J. Bixby ‘of New Haven in charge. OVENSHIRE TO HEAD SHRINE. Minneapolis, June 27.—The annual meeting of the Imperial Council, No- bles of the Mystic Shrine, is to come to a close tonight. Under the ryle providing for'the automatic advance- ment ‘of officers, C. E. Ovenshire of Minneapolis today will be named im- perial potentate. MACHINE CO. TO BUILD. The New Britain Machine company was granted a permit yesterday for the erection of a two-story addition to the present factory on Chestnut street. The addition will be of brick construction 38x260 feet and the es- timated cost is $30,000. William H. Allen *has the general contract. ' HOW CANADA 1S HELPING CHILDREN Soldiers’ ‘Wives and Boys and ~ Girls Well Cared For Washington, June 27.—How Cana- da provides for the wives and chil- dren of her enlisted men is described in a report by 8. Herbert Woife of New York, prepared at the request of the secretary of labor and just pub- lished by the children's bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. In presenting the report, Miss Lathrop, chief of the children’s bu- reau, says: In the 50 years.since the Civil war, legislation affecting the family and its economic status has - shown marked growth. Mothers' pension laws and min- imum-wage laws are recognised examples, and it is acknowledged that their result has not beem to " pauperize but distinctly to im- prove the power of the family to . protect itself. In view of ' this tendency it is to be expected that a system' of compensation for sol- diers nd sailors can be developed . whereby the government will make possible for .their chlidren the home life and prental care which are the common ned of every child. The report points out -that in Canada two notable elements' have been added to the government pro- vision for soldiers and their. families, and, second, the dominion has under- taken as a part of its military sys- tem the re-education, in a suitable oc~ cupation, of the disabled soldler so that he can assume again, in whole or in part, the care of his family. The Canadian comy.mon for the soldier and his family includes not only $38 of monthly pay 'for the private in active service but a separa- tion allowance to his dependents of /420 a month from the dominion gov- ernment and further gssistance in special cases.from the Canadian pa- rtiotic fund. - For example, the wife of a private soldier with three children between the ages of 10 and 15 may receive either $15 or $20 from the assigned pay of her husband, $20 separation al- lowance, ‘and $25 from the Canadian Patriotic fund, or in all uo to $65 a month. If her husband is killed, she will receive $40 a month for herself, and an additional $6 a month for each of her children until her boys are 16 years of age and her girls are 17 years of age. In addition, if she lives in Toronto or one of a number of other cities, she will receive lifu insurance. - This will be pald to" her in monthly instaliments unless she shows that she needs the entire amount at once to pay off a mort- gagé or to make a start in business. If her husband is disabled, she will receive a special maintenance allow- ance while he is having medical treatment and learning a new occu- pation, and’ when he is finally dis- charged, if his physical ' disability continues, a pension will be paid ac- cording to the extent of his disabllity -and the number of his children under 16 or 17 years of age. Mr, Wolfe is an actuary of recog- nized authority and he has analysed especially the municipal provision for' life insurance by which certain Ca- nadian cities have supplemented the pensiona provided by the Dominion for dependents of deceased soldiers. In Toronto, the municipality has not only purchased $10,000,000 worth of insurance from private = companies, but it*ie itself ‘carrying more than $32,000,00fuorapth “of insarambe. A municipal insurance bureau has been: h of] organized and $2,000,000 wo bonds have been issued of which the priricipal and interest are a charge upon the general taxpayers of\the city. Every officer and enlisted man residing within the city limits of To-’ ronto who volunteers . for oversea service has from the date’'of his en- listment been protected by a life in- surance policy of $1,000, the protec- tion running from the time of his enlistment to his death or six months after his discharge or resignation. The report refers also the fact that each of the REuropean countries makes government provision for the families of private soldiers and sail- ors. In Great Britain, France and Germany the amount of the govern- mental separation allowance depends upon the size of the family which must be supported. ROOKIE OFFICERS DROP. Two Exhausted by Methods of Spar- tan Driliniaster. Plattsburgh, N. Y., June 27.—Un- able to stand the arduous pace set by a Spartan drilimaster, two stu- dent officers dropped exhaustéd dur- ing an hour’s instruction in calis- thenics yesterday. On the instructor; Captain Herman Koshler, phyaical| director at West Point, the casual- ities made no impression, and the drill continued with unabated vigor. It is to be the supreme test of the men. The rigors of the drill are the main topic of conversation, The coming of Captain Koehler had long been heralded. It was known he would bring methods of startling nature, but the experience provided a great- er surprise than was anticipated. It ie now grantéd without question that he will bring the physical develop- ment of the men to the perfection point if they survive. Four classes of an hour's duration each were the day's program. Captain Koehler withstood the ordeal in magnificent shape, performlng faithfully mry- thing he required his men to-do: | CHICAGO’S MAYOR UNDER HEAVY. mml | | | Newsort Jume 27.—The' conattien { 1e1ena souna yesterday, was not vealed by faval authoritiss 'Qtl Chicago, June 27.—The city council yesterday approved the minutes of its mieting last Friday, which show that Mayor Thompson denied an appeal from his decision 'to adjourn the TOLYHPIA AGR OFF BLOCK IS Dmy’sFllgshlpltlllllt While Out for Target Practios & of the Unijted States cruiser Ol which struck on & shoal in day. Although the créw ‘the warship and’ came to ‘the station here, reports sént 5 the 5 department last night sald the. was resting sasy. The Olympia was Dewey's &t the battle of Manilia. The was reported in' a bad canflambk water fof Machinist's Mate B-bb lost. his life vhu he The: Olympia :put. out target practice. Details position could not be The Olympia wi council, denied a roll call, attempted | to: adjourn the session under the givel, relinquished his privilege of presiding, left the session, and retused to return. The approval was by a | vote of 47 to 23. This carries record confirmation that ti mayar . was wrong in. attempting to adjourn the ocduncil, ' THe mayor presented & message §iv- ‘ing his version of what happened at the meeting. . He referred to disorder, riot and rowdyism. While the ap- proval of the: minutes was & distinct}]. slap at the mayor, he was not asked to resign, neither was & resolution passed calling for his.im 3 The mayor's forces hard fight in his bel council committes on judiciary tla it was finally voted to defer action to gtve him an opportunity to unk. ay further defense. Later in the day State’s Attorney Hoyne toak the school board contro- ’ Dects of the issue involving the oon.- |’ firmation, and the subsaquent recon- sideration and ousting of the Thomp- eon board by the council, will form the basis of & quo warranto petition to be filed against the ‘“New Board Jointly. g o o) PRIEST DENIES HE GAVE AID TO COCCHI Murderer Lalt Alter luhng Con- fession, He Says T} M‘ ‘York, June 27.—Father Gasper |- Moretto, who, Coochi says, harbored him for “one night and two " in this city just befors his flight, dented yesterday that he had givesr of any kind to Cocchi or knew of fight. He sald he did talk with Coochi late one afterncon ‘‘about the middle of February” (doubtless ~after - the murder of Ruth Cruger), when Coox chi went to the priest 4t No, 8 Charl- ton street. Cocchi made contession and left the house at once. Where he went and what he thereafter are important & . which Father Moreito says are “wholly unknown” to him. 1 The secrets of < the confessional Father Moretto declines to revesl, and the official examiners have not asked him to tell them. Under ex- amination, first by Deputy Police Commissioner Locd and later by Dis« trict Attorney Swann, the priest ad- mitted that he had read of Ruth Cruger's, disappearance in the néws- papers, and had noted the mention of Cocchi's name in that connection, only a few days after the Mflnl visit, but. had kept silent. He said that subsequently a sister of Ruth Cruger visited him ' and sought information of Coccht, He told her he had not seen Cocchi for years, and knew nothing about him. "He did this, he sald, fearing that there “would be talk™ if the news- papers got hold of it. District Attorney Swann mr-lm Father Mofetto to go at the close of the examination, upon his promise to return at any time for further ques- tioning. Mr, Swann instructed the police to cease surveillance of the priest. The law rears an unsurmountable barrier against invasion of the - se- crecy of the confessional. Section 838 of the Code of Civil procedure’ reads. “A clergyman, or otheér minister of any religion, shall mnot be allowed to disclose a confession made to him, in his professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules or praetice of the religious Body to which he Belongs.” Father Moretto is young looking, of medfum height and slender. Compar- atively little could be learned of him yesterday except that he was born in Northern Italy, entered the church there, and for the last twelve years has been connected with the Female Italian Immigrants’ Home at No. 8 Charlton street. He is its representa- tive at Ellis Island, -ldumumm n llwofliumn.ummm ceived by the public (the © clded on Monday on the constitutional .unnuhu) g ot