New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1917, Page 5

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HER'ALD, SATURDAY, JOLY 7, 1901 7. ROOSEVELT AND GOMPERS IN | CLASH AT RUSSIAN MEETING| Former President Fist at Labor Head in Im- promptu Debate Over East St. Louis Riots. New York, July 7.—Starting most auspiciously with a public welcome amazing in its spontaneity and evi- dent sinceritv, the greeting of New York city to the Russian War Mis- dlon yesterday ended in Thostilities hetween Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. Before an audience that filled Car- negls Hall to overflowing, at the mass meeting which marked the end nf the day's program, these two men for a few minutes weng at each other in & way that caused the eyes of the visitors to open in astonishment, the erowd to gasp. ihen takes sides and finally become ihoroughly disorderly. and the members of the mayor's re- ception committee to lool very much émbarrassed. The end of what have been a perfect by Mayor Mitchel, who succeeded in Retting order out of chaos after a little while and by reminding the audience that the purpose of the gatheéring was the welcoming of the Russians. enabling the new Russian ambassador to make the speech he hud prepared, while Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Gompers, sitting just behind him, glared at each other. When the meeting was over friends had to keep the two men apart. The colonel seemed the more eager for a meetine. Bald he, as Police In- spectors Mvers and Dillon escorted him to his automobile. ‘T wish T could get my hands on Rim!" And then again: “I <can gearcely keep my hands off him!" He seemed anxious to go back from the Fifty-sixth street entrance look- ing for Mr. Gompers. Theodore Rousseau and others, however, pre- vented this. and the colonel drove away, Then Mr. Gompers, much more cool. came out with Hugh Frayne and Timothy Healy. “Teddy" Off His Manuscript. The mayor had introduced Mr. Roosevelt as the chief speaker with glowing phrases and the crowd had yelled for “Teddy” as usual. With his manuscript in his hand the Colonel had at once departed from his pre- pared text and brought fh the recent race riots in East St. Louis. He sald that before this country began to talk of liberty and justic to others it should see that everything was in order in its own house. He reiterated much he said at I‘orest Hills on July 4. He touched on the ‘appalling brutality” of the East St. Louis affair and said that to let such things go unpunished would leave a stain on the name of America. “Tt behooves us to express our deep condemnation of those acts that give the lie to our own words,” he sald, and he called on the government to “put a stop to murder first.” ‘‘Before we congratulate others on having drawn the mote from their eye," he sald, ‘‘we should see that the beam has been withdrawn from our own eye. So much for this brief eulogy of my fellow-citizens, now for the business of the evening.” When Mr. Roosevelt had concluded his prepared speech the mayor intro- duced Mr. Gompers, and the latter told a little story to the effect that had he his own way he would say, “Them's my sentiments, and sit down. Then he turned at once to the East St. Louis matter and said he would yield to wone in expressing de- testation of acts of violence. Gumpers Explains Labor's Side. “]I wish I had brought with me,” he went on, “a telegram I received just this evening from the Secretary of the Federation of Labor in II- linois, explaining the whole matter. It was not only the labor men in FEast St. Louis, but A member of the Cham- ber of Commerce there as well, who warned those who were bringing the colored men from the South, that they were to be brought there to undermine the white workers. Yet thousands were brought in and had not a place in which to lay their heads. The whole thing was an ex- sreise of tyrannic power like that which existed in old Russia.” There was prolonged applause at this and Colonel Roosevelt looked thoughtful. Mr. Gompers went back to the Declaration of Independence, said that all the ideals of America had not been realized by any means and that ‘“there is too much injustice here,” and then slowly worked to the war and his congratulations to the warmly applauded and up to the mo- ment he sat down the peace had not been disturbed. But when Mayor Mitchell rose to present Ambassador Bakhmetieff, Colonel Roosevelt jumped up and de- terminedly stalked toward the front of the platform. “Mr. Mayor, may 1 say one word?" ne asked. “Colonel Roosevelt wants to sav a word more,’ said the mayor and the crowd cheered. Waiting for silence, :he colonel, speaking through his leeth as usual when desiring to be smphatic, said: “]7 am not willlng that a meeting :alled to commemorate the hirth of would otherwiae day was saved iemocracy in Russia shall even seem | to have expressed or to have accept- | pd apologies for the brutal infamies Imposed on colored people.” Shakes His Fist at Gompers. At once a great shout greeted Colonel. The crowd roared its proval “Justice, with me, is not word,”” went on the colonel, up his right arm and punching the rtmosphere. “It is to be translated Into living acts, If we by explana- don—" Here the colonel turned about and . the ap- a mere Shakes | | thought better of it and sat | this. faced Mr. Gompers, at him in a most menacing way— —by explanation, silence or eva- sion apologize for murdering helpless women and children, then how can we praise the people of Russia? 1 have heard very much the same excuse given by the Russian autocra for the pogroms against the Jews.” Hall in Uproar. The hall was in an uproar. boy Teddy was a chorus of ‘Boos’ indicating that the crowd was not all with the colonel. “Shall we by silence acquiesce In this apology for men, women and children of our own country. I am a democrat of the democrats, and I will do everything for the laboring man except that which is wrong, and that I won't do for any man or any cause.” Again the colonel turned and faced Mr. Gompers and shook his fist. Mr. Gompers, white-faced, started to rise, down. The colonel continued to talk directly at him. “I don't care a snap of my fingers for the head of the strongest organ- ization in Illinois,” he went. “‘This happened in & northern state where the whites outnumber the blacks twenty to one, and if the white men there cannot protect their rights with their votes against an insignificant minority and have to resort to the ‘Good | murder of women and children, then the state that gave Abraham Lincoin to the presidency must bow its head in shame.” Wildly enthuslastic shouts greeted Mr. Gompers got up. A large crowd velled as he cried to the colonel: “You ought to investigate then make vour charges."” Menaces Gompers. Evidently in a passion the colonel stalked across to the labor leader. who sat down. The colonel stood over him, shaking his fist down into his face. “Murder is murder,” he shouted, “and I'll not allow you or any one else to justify it.”” Something else was said between the two and the colonel continued to shake his first at Gompers. The yell- ing of the crowd made what was sald quite inaudible. *“Brave Teddy,' shouted some; “Answer him,” cried others at Gompers. The «colonel stalked back to the center of the stage. “I will go to any extreme which is necessary to bring justice to the la- | horing man and assure him his proper first, | and had not intended to attempt bringing | place,” he said. The Gompers adher- ents in the crowd saw their chance. Accused by Labor Men. “You never did; you never cried fully a hundred men. The colonel went on: “But when there is murder T will put it down, and 1 will never submit to an apology for it; I never will! “We are gathering here to greet and congratulate these men who come to us from a nation that has galned its freedom. On such an e¢vening I will never sit motionless while, directly or indirectly, apolo is made for the murder of the help- less. T never will!” And with that the colonel took his seat, perfectly white in the face. For the next three minutes the row in the audience was almost deaf- ening. There were cries ‘Answer him,” cries of ‘““Gompers cries of “Shame,” cries of “Bravo. Gompers waved his hand to those in the aud- ience, motioning them to remain still. The mayor motioned for silence and didn’'t get it. He pounded it with a roll of paper, he carried. He shouted for silence, and at last he got it, or at least a little of it. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he gaid, “we are here tonight to greet the envoys of the Russian people—" Another outburst of mingled cheer- ing &nd shouting greeted this, but the mayor ralsed his voice and kept on—"and for no other purpose. 1 now introduce to you Ambassador Bakhmetieff of Russia, the leader of the Russian mission to this country. As far as the audience was con- cerned the hostilities ended there. When Colonel Roosevelt was ques- tioned afterward he said: “There never was any justification for murder. Murder is not debat- able.” When men crowded about his auto and congratulated him on his stand he said: “While T belleve in democracy in the abstract I also believe in it In the concrete.” Mr. Gompers, ment. said: “He (Roosevelt) imagines himself the self appointed custodian of the morals of the whole world. He took the holier-than-thou attitude when he jumped up the way he did. T told him earlier that he did not know all the facts that T knew. But he did not take the warning. It was an- other chance for him to get in the limelight and, of course, he took it Mr. Gompers explained that he was speaking of the conditions that led up to the riot in East St. Louis to justify the actual killing of people. Some of the labor leader's friends in- sisted that the colonel had deliber- ately sought to insult Mr. Gompers, and he was urged by one or two to leave the hall while the colonel was making his tirade did,"" asked for his com- YANKEES BU Mefaphis, July 7.—Sam Vick, oute flelder for the Memphis Southern As« sociation club, has been sold to th® New York Americans. reporting t3 New York after the Southern season. The price was $4,200 in cash and two pitchers. WILLIE RITCHIE ENLISTS. San Francisco, July 7.—Willie Rit- chie, former lightweight boxing cham- pion of the world, today enlisted in the United States signal reserve corps shaking his fist | * shouted a score and there | where it was sald they | admission that the man as a private. A MASTER SPY TRIO NOW UNDER ARREST Influential Men Taken in Secret Service Round-Up New York, cret Servce ernment, July agencies 7.—~The Se- of the gov- now scouring every part of the country in the effort to round-up enemy agents and spies operating in the United States, began the work in the New yesterday, and in day took into custody Carl Heynen, for vears one of the most powerful German agents in North America; P. A. Borgemeister, at one time a New York banker, but more recently con- fidential secretary to Dr. Heinrich Al- bert, late Financial Attache of the German Embassy in Washington; Professor Johnathan Hanneck, said to be an expert in wireless telegraphy, and a fourth man whose name was withheld by the Federal authorities. These men were taken to Ellis Island would be in- The fourth man in earnest York district terned for the war. was brought to the Federal Building in New York from Newark, and was still being questioned by representa- tives of the Department of Justice at a late hour last night. Beyond the “might prove a very important person,” no comment was made on the arrest. Heoynen and Borgemeister were ar- rested In an office in the Hamburg- American Line Building, at 45 Broad- way, the same office which was used by Dr. Albert during the two years that he was supposed to be the finan- cial director of the German propogan- da in America. Dr. Albert returned to Germany in a safe conduct as a member of Count von Bernstorff’'s em- bassy staff, and the office has since been used by Heynen, who in the course of a statement made in affida- vit form recently stated that he was the Treasurer of the Bridgeport Pro- jectile Company, a munition manu- facturing concern which is said to have several large United States Gov- ernment contracts. In that same affi- davit he was "Assistant Commercil Attache of the Imperial Germany Embassy at Washington.” Heynen Watched For Months. That the Federal agents have been keeping a close watch on Heynen for months past has been known for some time. When Count Bernstorff, Wolf von Igel, the last named indicted as a plotter, and the other members of the large German Embassy staff left the country it was thought certain that Heynen would take advantage of the opportunity to get back to Germany. Until the day Bernstorff sailed it was thought he would go with him, but Heynen remained here and shortly afterward became the tenant of the office which Dr. Albert made his head- quarters. Prior to the departure of Dr. Albert, Heynen had an office on the elghteenth floor of 60 Wall street, in which building Captain von Papen is said to have directed the carrving out of the numerous plots of which he was the directing head. Von Igel an- other of the German Embassy at- taches, shared the office with von Papen. Both von Papen and von Igel are {ntimate friends of Heynen. One of the principal reasons why Heynen remained in the United States after Bernstorff went away, was to look after certain financial interests held by prominent Germans in this country. According to the story as It is told one of the Germans whose in- terests were left in the keeping of Heynen was the Kaiser, who is re- ported to own a large block of stock in a Western hrewery and who is also gaid to be heavily interested in the Hamburg-American Line. None of the Hamburg ships had been selzed at the time of Bernstorff's departure, and the Germans entertained the hope that even in the event of war the Govern- ment would not seize them. Heynen was familiar with Hamburg-American affairs, having for a long time heen the head of the company’s affairs in Mexico. At the time of the Vera Cruz occupation, in April, 1914, Heynen was the general agent of the line in Mexico City and also the German Con- sul General at that place. Heynen Expert on Mexican Affairs. According to officlals of the Amer- fcan Secret Service, Hevnen knows more than any other German about Mexican conditions. In the days of Madero and later of Huerta he was generally credited with being the most powerful German south of the Rio Grande. When Admiral Fletcher's ships appeared off Vera Cruz in the early Spring of 1914 Heynen came to Vera Cruz and was there during the taking of the city by Fletcher's ma- rines and bluejackets. The Hamburg-American liner Ypir- anga, which arrived at Vera Cruz just before the American occupation, had on board a large consignment of arms and ammunition for Huerta and the American naval commander announc- ed that the cargo could not be dis- charged. Heynen represented the Hamburg-American Line, and. it is generally believed, also the German Government, in all that followed. Within 24 hours after Fletcher began his Vera Cruz operations the Ypiranga hauled down the German merchant flag, agd holsted the Imperial naval ensign, and a few days later, with Heynen on board, quietly slipped out of Vera Cruz Harbor, steamed to Puerto Mexicn, and delivered the arms and ammmunition into the hands of the Huerta agents. Naval officers also tell the story of how American refugees who were in Vera Cruz at the time of the opera- tions, sought and were refused asylum on the Ypiranga, and had to be trans- ferred under fire to an American ship which was anchored in the outer har- bor. Incidentally, it may be men- tioned, that Captain Von Papen was in Vera Cruz during the first days of the American occupation and he made his home on the Ypiranga as long as that ship remained in port. the course of the | BERNSTORFE’S AID ORDERED FROM U. 5. Schaafhausen Had Been With Swiss Legation Corps Washington, July 7.—The first tan- | gible result of the round-up of Ger- man agents in this country ma- terialized last night when it developed that Heinrich Schaafhausen, whom Count von Bernstorff caused to be retained by the Swiss legation when the United States severed diplomatic relations, would leave the United States within the next few hours at the instance of the state department. Schaafhausen’s enforced depacrture from this country may be accepted as a move to rid the diplomatic corps of ! persons whom the United States has reason to believe are extremely active in the interest of Germany. It is the result of five months of patient in- vestigation by the government's secret agents. Schaafhausen is a German subject, formerly employed by Count von { Bernstorff in a confidential capacity. While his precise connection with the embassy and his activities in Bern- storff's interests have always been more or less of a mystery, he was supposed to have assisted von Papen and Boy-Ed in the perfection of some of their so-called military plans. When Bernstorff was sent home he caused Schaffhausen to be retained by Dr. Ritter, the Swiss minister, who has since been recalled because this gov- ernment looked upon him as being ex- tremely pro-German. Schaffhausen was supposed to be so familiar with the routine affairs of the German em- bassy that he would be of great assist- ance to the Swiss minister, to whom the embassy's affairs were turned over. Recent developments have satisfied the administration that military ne- cessity should be tempered by diplo- matic delicacies. The Swiss legation has the priv- ilege of using cable codes. In normal times an emplove like Schaafhausen probably would not have access to code books in a legation, but the fact remains that this government fears that his presence might place him in a position to assist Germany by send- ing messages to Switzerland for trans- mission to Berlin. It is understood that Schaafhausen's departure is the forerunner of a gen- eral exodus of alien enemies who are employed or have been employed by other neutral legations. Reports that the state department is disturbed because of the presence in Washington of the Turkish and Bul- garian diplomatic staffs are not credited here. PICKETS SPENDING WEEK-END IN JAIL Judge Compliments Rep. Hill's Daugh- ter on Cleverness in Cross Ex- amination of Witnesses. ‘Washington, July 7.—Of the thir- teen militants of the National Wom- en’s party who celebrated the Fcurth of July at the White House in\ a manner not approved by the police, eleven are in jail to remain there until Sunday morning. Kach elected to take the prison sentence rather than pay a $25 fine imposed by Judge Mullowny in the police court yester- day afternoon, after having been found guilty of obstructing traffic. The eleven are Miss Jov Young, Miss Vida Milholland and Mrs. L. A. Greene of New York; Miss Margaret Whittemore of Detroit, Miss Eliza- beth Stuyvesant of Cincinnati, Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk, Conn.; Miss Gladys Greiner of Baltimore, Mrs. Alexander Shields of Amarillo, Tex.; Mi: Iris Calderhead of Marys- ville, Kan.; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia and Miss Lucy Burns of Brooklyn. Two others of the thirteen arrested—Miss Hazel Hunkins of Billings, Mont., and Miss Kitty Mar- ion of New York—are to have sep- arate trials' later. The second day's hearing of mili- tants began in Judge Mullowny’s court at 11 o'clock in the morning and lasted until 3 in the afternoon. Each of the eleven had something 1o say to support their argument that they had heen guilty of no wrongdo- ing. Their motives, they declared, were of the highest, and they said they were simply working for tae freedom of the women of the United Weed, daughter of Represen- tative Hill of Connecticut, proved a marvel as a cross-examiner, and was complimented by the judge, who told her: you are doing a lot better most lawyers."” than PRINCESS MARY ACTIVE. Divides Time Between Vegetables and Munition Plants. (Correspondence of the Asso. Press). London, June 30.—(Correspon- dence)—Princess Mary, only daughter of the king, is dividing her time be- tween her vegetable garden at Wind- sor Castle and visiting munitions plants where she usually presides over the canteens. The princess likes to reach a munitions center unan- nounced and to delight the factory girls by serving and passing out to their hot midday meal. When the munition workers at a certain factory hurried into their can- teen for their dinner the other day they were surprised to find the prin- cess standing besides a great urn, clad in large blue overall, ready to hand out food to them. HEvery girl was | eager to purchase at her hands and many returned to the counter for a superfluous packet of chocolates or a bun, just for the sake of another smile from the princess. | REASONS SHOULD ATTEND —OUR ANNUAL— JULY PIANO SALE HY YOU There are many reasons why you should at tend this sale. We could not begin to enumeratd them. Here's only one: Never was there such a universal>demand fog economy in buying and the-prevention of-wasteful ness of all kinds. This sale offers you the opportunity of being If you reall yo rebuil economical in your piano buying. afford a new piano can safely of pianos at a saving of from 10 to 75%, fro the original price. 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They include avia- tion, artillery, infantry and medical bases. The part of the battle front event- ually to be occupied by the Ameri- cans has been decided upon by the military authorities and approved by Major General Pershing. who has thoroughly covered the ground. The location is a military secret, and no actual time has been specified for American participation on fighting front. The battallon of United States sol- diers that took part in the Independ- ence day celebration in Puris nas begun training at its permanent camp. NORWAY EXTENDS WELCOME. Invites Red Cross Nurses in Need of Rest. Christiania, Norway, June 20 (Cor- respondence)—The Norwegian . Red Cross has extended to the United States an invitation to send to Nor- way for a “rest cure” any of its nurses and Red Cross workers who may be- come ill or worn out in the course of their work in Northern France. 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