New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1917, Page 5

\ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1917. .S, CAN SUPPLY AN " ARMY OF 2,000,000 Jow Prepared to Provide Muni- tions to Vast Army ¥ “Washington, July 2.—President lsbn now regards every resource of ~,the country, except food, mobilized & #6f war service, and an announcement this offect will be made by Secre- Mty Baker this week. For the first thme the public will learn what has Pées acosmplished toward putting the hiation on a war footing. ““Some ides of the magmitude of the task can be gleansd by the Kknow- ledge that the government forsees mo wingle obstacle to establishing, equip- ing and maintaining in Europe an American fighting Yorce of 2,000,000 foiés tn the proocess of steadily exerted #hiftary pressure against Germany. " f%ie score of the nation’s war policy whith Mr. Baker will announce will me as a revelation for several yosadns. Chief among these is the fikt that the general public has had .96 mnotion of the hugs systematized 4ask which the Council of National “Défense has been quietly accomplish- 41fg "With the aid of thousands of the Dbekt trained business minds of the ‘country. President Wilson realizes, as does ry Baker, who is president of I t8e Council of National Defence, that / » » r » .\‘:b‘ } he secrecy which so far has shrowded the Work has left the general impres- slon that little of specific value was béing done. ' ‘fPhe euestion “Is there enough am- musition in sight and arranged for to #upplty a hundred thousand men?” bretight suthoritative answer that the Pation’s facilities now organized on this line could supply an army of a hiflion men for 20 years without 3 . The fiow of ammunition 46'%6 el assured that they could use 1t virtually every day without feeling the shortage, provided of course, ‘there is adequate means to keep up 1td transportation to them. The last Bids on three inch shells showed a ‘mpaeity for production even now whith has frankly staggered the war department, 3 “*%ie reason for this is not only be- cause of the organization now con- trolling the nation's resources but Beczuse the Entente Allies have been getting their ammaunition here so d#%g that Unc¢le Sam had a running WAt on this vitally necessary war Imedsure, "On the matter of helmets it has de- veloped that there is no concern about ‘the immediate future because the men ‘riow in France are supplied with hel- | FA¥ts just as they are supplied with gas asks and every other essential. But ©on the question of future supply, ex- paneive production, the answer was that the government figured on sup- plying ‘“‘a million men with sufficient epbéd to make the capacity for sup- plying the mecand million compara- tively easy.” 3 Hitch Over Rifies. With rifies the same general plan is being followed. Here there is a slight Mteh in rounding out the expansive ; Production plan because it was found | Thiat the army estimates of 1918 did | ‘not include $9,500.000 which Secre- ! try Baker now finds is imperatively | Yiséded for machinery for the manu- | fhdture of Springfields. Mr. Baker says this additional sum is urgently rieeded and he expects Congress to ap- Propriate it without delay. ‘Even without it thé army can be | kept going into the hundred thou- | sand figure and can use the British Enfleld rifie for additional troops if neécessary, but the Government is figuring- in the millions and the 8pringfields are superior to the En- flelds, which will be rechambered to fit the United States army ammuni- tien. It is assumed that Congress will appropriate the needed additional funds. If not the army will have to find some means of getting the ma- chjnery manufactured anyway. It appears now that neither red tape nor legal problems are seriously checking the full steam ahead pro- gram of putting the nation on a war footing. Cases have already arisen where the Government has been com- pelled to arrange in a hurry for forg- ings or other vitally necessary sup- pliss, but has found that the manu- facturers had not the capacity to han- dle such huge orders without enlarg- ing their plants and branching out in a manner which required rush funds. They told the Government they would expand if the Gévernment advanced them the money. The Government found it had no legal right to do this or to pay money for goods it hadn't Teceived. There was an immediate deadlock, but the Council of National Defence took hold and ordered the plants ex- © panded. Arrangements were made ‘whereby the manufacturers regulate the price so that the Government pays for the additional buildings and fa- cllities as the work advances. In these as in other cases the Council of National Defence has sacrificed law, red tape and other obstructions to the necessity of getting work under way. Advisers of Secretary Baker say that it ecame hard to him to forget tem- porarily ::his legal mind”, but that he has thrown law overboard as blithely as any one else. Both the army and navy authori- ties say that the Council of National Defence with its apparent endless chain of committees and subcommit- tees has now whipped the organiza- tion of the nation’s military resources into such shape that most valuable time has been saved. ORIOLES DOWN ATHLETICS. Baltimore, Md., July 2.—The Balti- more Intergationals defeatéd the Ahletics yesterday in an exhibition gams, 7 to 4. Anderson and Haley wers the Athletics’ battery, while MecClellan and Shaufele were the local battery. SUBMARINE BASE TROLLEY CAR HOPS |SOCIALISTS MOBBED OFF RISH COAST British Patrol Fleet Locates Ger- man Station on Island An Atlantic Port, July 2.—From of- ficers of an American which has arrived here it was learned that vessel of the British patrol fleet on duty off the north of Ireland dis- covered a German submarine base on Tory Island two weeks ago. This island is nine miles long, and twelve miles from the Irish coast, off the County of Donegal. The Americang learned that six men, who were found to have been the ring- leaders in supplying U-bouts were shot. A quantity of fuel oil was confiscat- ed, together with provisions, and from talks the British officers had with the islanders it was believed Ger- man_ commanders also were getting from the island reports of the move- ments of British vessels. Many men and women were said to have had a part in the supplying of the U-boats, but most of them were given to understand they were Amer- ican submarines. The crews never came ashore and the boats flew 1o flags. Some of the six men who en- gineered thé scheme rowed out to the vessels in fishing dories with their supplies. Almost invariably the sub- marines put in an appearance after dark and disappeared before dawn. How long the base had been es- tablished was not ascertained, but it was believed to have existed for sev- eral months. Many of the largest vessels torpe- doed have been sent to their doom off Tory Island since the middle of April. The island is on the lane of steamships entering and leaving the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland. This channel has been used by many vessels seeking the open Atlantic of late, instead of go- ing down the Irish Sea around to the south of Ireland, as it was figur~d that once through the short channel the vessels would be in the open zea and have far less distance to travel in submarine waters than in the Irish Sea. The toll of vessels off the mnorth coast of Ireland has been large lately, and time and agaln steamships have been sent into Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle upon the report of U-boats Peing sighted, to remain there in groups for days. | Many have been sunk shortly after they left there upon receiving word that the coast was clear. Many have been caught by their hulls being out- lined in the moonlight and others when they were silhouetted by the setting sun. Because of the frequent operations of U-boats thereabouts, small patrol boats were sent into all the small bays to ascertaln if there was a base in any of them. After several days’ search, it was learned that the boats had been to Tory Island, and a sum- mary questioning of the inhabitants resulted in the rounding up of the gullty six. There is a lighthouse on the north- west side of Tory Island and the deep water between there and the main- iand is known as Tory Jound. The 300 inhabitants of the island. are chiefly fishermen and kelp gatherers. They select their own king and did not pay rent or taxes for many years In 1902 wholesale ejectment papers were served on the people. The inhabitants retain many prim- itive customs of tenure and social re- lationship. The original Celtic tribal customs also are in force. There is a strong mixture of Spanish blood still traceable, due to deacent from sur- vivérs of the Spanish Armada wrecked there about 1588, On a British vessel which arrived at another American port was Chief Gunner's Mate J. F. Becker from one of the American destroyers doing pa- trol duty off the Irish coast, and the first man to return from the fleet that was sent over. He sald the American sailors found out at an Irish port there was much feeling there against America going into the war and helping England. The liner he arrived on left an English port the same day as the liner Haverford of the International Mercantile Marine's Philadelphia service, which was reported on.Fri- day as having been sunk. Both lin- ers went out through the North Channe] togesther and the one that came out safely was the faster. MAY SWAP CALDWELL. Mnnagers Donovan and ° Jennings May Enter Into Deal. New York, July 2.—Viewing the situation purely as an interested by- stander, it appears that Manager Bill Donovan of the Yankees and his freind and erstwhile band leader Man- ager Hughie Jennings of the Tigers, have fine materiays for a profitable barter. A barter, you know, is an ex- change of commodities whereby par- ticipants are supposed to share equal- ly in the exchange. Possibilities referred to are Ray “Siim” Caldwell, able bodied right hand pitcher, and Sam ‘“Wahoo” Crawford, robust and sound limbed swatter and meadowman. These are the commodities. Jennings needs pitchers, that is, good ones, and Cala- well answers the description. Dono- van needs hitters, hard and timely ones, and Crawford is all of that. How badly each manager needs these particular commodities is limited only by the stretch of the most elastic imagination. You can’t overstep the Hmit. “KILTTES” LEAVE BOSTON. Boston, July 2.—The “Kiities,” members of the 236th New Bruns- wick regiment, who have been con- ducting a successful recruiting cam- paign here among British subjects, departed last night and today. steamship | INTO NAGARA RIVER Ten Known Killed When Crowd (- Is Hurled Into Rapids Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 2.—Two investigations were under way today into the accident in the Niagara riv- | er gorge at the Cantilever bridge ves- terday when a crowded trolley car on the' Great Gorge route was thrown from ‘the tracks by a washout and plunged over a 20 foot embankment into the headquarters of the whirlpool rapids. One investigation was ordered by the district attorney of Niagara coun- ty and the other was directed by wire instructions from thé public service at Albany. A warning that had been given to the railroad that the road bed was being washed out at the point where the accident occurred will be the basis of a investigation by the county officials. There were no developments today to cause the railroad officlals to change their estimate of ten dead, four miss- ing and probably dead and 24 injured. In addition to these, it was said, nine persons who escaped injury had been located, making a total of 47 persons accounted for. There is some dis- crepancy, however, between this total and the records of the number of per- sons on the car. Unofficlal estimates went as high as 60 but the guard at the Lewiston bridze over which the car passed from the Canadian side checked over 49 persons. Violet Seastran of Jamestown, N. Y., who was listed as missing last night, was placed on the list of dead today. Her mother was killed and her father and two sisters were in- jured. Nine bodies have been recov- ered and all but one identified. The unidentified body is that of a woman. A washojt, due to recent heavy rains, was the cause of the disaster, which occurred just below the Canti- lever Bridge and sixty feet below the point where the smooth waters of the upper reaches of the Niagara River break into the turbulent waters of the ‘Whirlpool Rapids. The car was in charge of Louis B. Crandall, motorman, and Alexander Heron, conductor. It had all but com- pleted the circuit of the gorge, hav- ing crossed from the Canadian side of the river on the trolley bridge at Lew- iston. There were more than 50 pas- sengers on board, according to esti- madte: The car was one of the open { type, the seats extending from side to side, with steps on both sides the full length of the car. All the seats were occupied and some of the passengers were standing between them and there were others on the rear platform. The car was running at a speed of 20 miles an hour when it struck a weak spot in the roadbed. Less than half a minute elapsed from the time the motorman felt the first jarring sway until the car was bottom up on the edge of the rapids. As it slipped down the 20 foot in- cline from. the tracks to the edge of the river screaming men and women fought to escape, and some of them were able to get free, but failed to gain a footing on the steep bank. There. was a mad scramble in the car and the bank. From the river side the bodies of at least two of the passengers were seen to be caught in the swifter waters, and were carried down to the Whirlpool. Members of a Natlonal Guard regi- ment who were on guard at the Canti- Jever bridge saw the accident and were first to the rescue. The soldiers slipped down the bank into the river, and worked in water up to their waist getting injured passengers free from the wreckage and passing them up the bank, where an emergency car had been placed to carry them to the Nia- gara Falls Hospital. The supports of the roof on the for- ward part of the car had been crushed by the impact on the rocks In the river bottom, throwing the seats together. This pinioned many of the passengers below the surface of the water, and it was in this part of the car that most of the fatalities oc- curred. “I belleve at least half a dozen bod- jes were carried down the river to the Whirlpool,” said one .of the soldiers who was tawen to a hespital to recov- er from exhaustion. +*“When I was running down the railroad tracks I saw out in the stream what seemed to me to be two arms raised above the surface. Ten feet away from them I am sure I saw the bright color of a woman’s dress near the surface, and stil] further down & man was swim- ming in an effort to get out of the rapids. He disappeared.” Heron, the conductor, was in the forward part of the car collecting the last of the fares. He was thrown from the running board und crushed to death as the car toppled over. AEA Ll e STEAMER HIMALAYA SUNK. Explosion Destroys Passenger Vessel With Loss of 28. Paris, July 2.—The French steam- ship Himalaya of -the Messageries Maritimes, with 204 passengers and crew, has been sunk in the Mediter- ranean as the result of an explosion. One hundred and seventy-six persons were saved and 28 lost their lives. The steamship Himalaya was 5,620 tons gross. She was last reported at Marseilles. WOMEN MAGISTRATES IN BERLIN Berlin, via London, July 2.—The first women elected to the Berlin mag- | istracy have received their' appoint- ments. They have been assigned to take charge of public soclal welfare work. 3 & shallow water between the wracked- - BY ENLISTED MEN Paraders Forced to Kneel and Kiss American Flag Boston, /July and marines 2,—Soldlers, broke up a sailors socialist parade and anti-conscription demon- | stration in riots centering an Boston Common yesterday afternoon. Hun- dreds of socialists were beaten and forced to kiss the flag on their knees. The headquarters of the socialists was raided and wrecked. Furniture and pamphlets were thrown into the street and burned. Red flags were taken from paraders and tarn to bits. Sacialist bands were forced to play “The Star Spangled Banner.” For three hours the rioting raged on the common and in and about Park Square, where the officers of the so- cialist party of Massachusetts are. The crowd engaged numbered about 10,000. Police were powerless or pas- sive, seeming to sympathize with the enlisted men and the hundreds of volunteers who assisted them. Not until a provost guard of 30 en with fixed bavonets was called out from the naval training station on the Common- wealth pier did the disorder subside. The common was practically under martial law and the provost guard took entire charge away from the police. They made half a dozen ar- rests, all of socialists, on charges of rioting and failure to register for conscription. The paraders numbered 8,000, ac- cording to the Socialists. They in- cluded 400 of the socialist branch of the Central Labor Unian, 2,000 mem- bers of the Lettish socialist organiza- tions, 1,600 Lithuanians, Jewish mem- bers of cloak trades and other branches of the party, Aliens predominated. real American type was conspicuous by its absence. Hundreds of girls were in the parade, and there were eight bands. One American flag was borne in the parade, lost in the mass of red banners. Each parader car- ried a small red flag, but what in- cited the riots was banners against In fact, the war and conscription, of which iyrpical gpecimens were: If this is a popular war, why con- scription The United States 200,000 coffins. Who stole Hayti Liberty Bonds are a first mortgage on labor. Democratize Germany—what 0 and the Danbury hatters? The parade formed around Socialist headquarters in Park Square, and as the head of the line reached a point opposite the various recruiting sta- tions on the Tremont street mall of the Common trouble started. Some 300 or 400 enlisted men were massed there, apparently by prearrangement, the crowd was so large. “Two hundred thousand coffins! What a gall!” velled one bluejacket. “Take the flag away fram them boys.” Sailors, marines and soldiers charged at the head of the line. The lone Star Spangled Banner in the procession was borne in triumph to the Parkman band stand several hun- dred yards away, where a band con- cert was being given under municipal auspices. Whenwhile hundreds of) small roits and individual fights began has ordered Panama and crushed about F | Here the parade ended | socialist rrovest guard with fixed bayi broken up the last surging m From the Parkman band main body of enlisted men parade of their own, with interruptions to the continuity: in order that stray social feel the might of Uncle Sa Meanwhile attempts by leaders to speak on the Co ! planned were prevented by th One of the socialist bands pressed by the enlisted men’s which marched,from the Comi Castle Square and thence backi socialist headquarters in Square which are on the secoa Ny to 4 offices. Furniture literature were smashed and out the window. Noothing intact inside but the safe picture of Lincoln. No harm, any of the girl paraders. 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