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

‘ i HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS HERALD “ADS” MEA BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. 1917. NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JULY 19, —TEN PAGES ESTABLISHED 1 DRAFT SET FOR TOMORRO DOUBLE NUMBER DETERMINE New Army to Be Chosen by Lottery in Committee Room of Senate Office Build at 9:30 o’Clock in Morning--Crowder Issues Complete Details for Conscription WOMAN TRIES TO END LIFE AS [FRENGH YIELD, THEN] PRESIDENT PARDONS SOLDIER SON BIDS FAREWELL RIVE OUT GERMANS IMPRISONED PICKETS » Mrs. Frank Pechout of Greenwood Street Twice Triesto Drown in Arch Street Pond UMPS INTO WATER 10 FEET Il\{ DEPTH N. H. Whaples, Nearby Resident, Drags Woman Out Few Hours Aft- er She Had Been Taken Into Cus- tody of Police Who Suspected Her of Desiring to Drown—Neighbor’s Quarrel Alst; Factor. Mrs. Frank Pechout of 32 Green- wood street, believed to be mentally unbalanced because of domestic trouble and the fact that her enlisted son has been called away to camp, tried to drown herself twice today in the pond at the Corbin pumping sta- tion at the foot of Arch street. The first attempt, made this morn- 4nig, was frustrated by her son. The woman went to the edge of the pond ,but realized that she was watched and began pulling up grass and rolled it up in her coat. Her son was noti- fled and led her away from the edge of the "pond. Later in the morning | Policeman Anthony Walinczus was“ motified that the woman was acting| strangely and took her to the police station, where she was questioned and : then taken home in the detectives’ ear. | About 2 o'clock this afternoon she ! was observed creeping through some | back yards to the edge of the pond. Before assistance could arrive she ! walked out on a little platform in | the_pond and jumped into the water, | at a spot where it is more than ten | feet deep. | H. N. Whaples, a carpenter who ! Jives in a tenement above the pump- | Hng station, saw her and went to her | iassistance. Her clothing bouyed her | up to the surface of the water and] she was trying to force herself under swhen he grabbed her and pulled her ! out. Frank Deitz, engineer at the power station, saw the woman make both attempts and said this afternoon that Whaples’ timely arrival saved her ilife as he would have been unable ‘to save the woman. It was learned vesterday afternoon that Mrs. Pechout’s son, Frank, was formerly a member of one of the local militia companies but has been transferred to the Machine Gun com- pany of Hartford and ordered to camp. This is said to have worried the woman up to the point of trying to end her life. But from the wo- man’s story to the police domestic difficulties also gave her cause for the attempt. 3 Although she talked irrationally the police learned that a Mrs. Rehm, raid to be Mrs_ F. Rehm of 28 Green- wood street, has caused her a lot of trouble. Mrs. Pechout said that she and her husband had worked hard {n the shop and saved enough money te buy a brick block on Greenwood _treet, but Mrs. ‘with her all the time and caused her so much trouble that she wanted to die. Neighbors said that the woman is demented and has been in an asy- lum, but the police were unable to verify that point this afternoon. After she had been dragged out of the pond this afternoon the police mmbulance w called and Police- men John Carlson, William Strolls Mnd Matthias Rival took her to the police station, where she was pro- vided with dry clothing and her relatives notired LYONS BSTATE An inventory of the estate of the late Dr. Edwin B. Lyon, formerly a practicing physician in this city where for a great many years he was medi- val examiner, shows that it is valued at $38,937.72. This inventory was ~iled in the West Hartford probate court. Deposits in various banks amounted to 319,000 and real estate totalled $9,000 more. The remainder of the estate is in stocks and bonds. $38,937. Rehm was fighting | MAYOR NAMES FooD DICTATORS FOR CITY Committee Will Work With State Council of Defense. At the request of Arthur L. Ship- man, chairman of the Hartford Coun- ty Auxiliary committee of the Con- | necticut Council of Defense, Mayor Quigley today appointed a special food committee from New Britain, whose duty it will be to work under, and In co-operation with, the state council in the matter of caring for the food and fuel supply. Orders from the Connecticut Coun- cil of Defense provide that one of the" committee must be a prominent finan- cial man, another a labor man and a third a publicity man. Accordingly the mayor, who will be chairman of the food committee himself, named ; members of the Municipal Farm com- mittee, because of the close relation- ship of the work of the two boards, and W. F. Brooks. Representing the financial world will be F. H. Alford. T. H. Kehoe will represent labor and | H. R. Jones will care for the publicity end of it. The food committee is com- posed of Mayor G. A. Quigley, Judge B. F. Gaffney, H. S. Tallard, who will probably be named as food director of the city, T. H. Kehoe, F. H. Alford, Frederick A. Parsons, W. B. Ross- berg, H. R. Jones and W. F. Brooks. Mr. Brooks, as a member of the park commission, has charge of raising eleven acres of potatoes on park land and because of the close association of raising crops with the regulation of | food he was appointed on the commit- tee. The exact duties of this new com- { mittee have not been detailed, but the members, working for this city, will work under the direction of and in co-operation with the state council. It is also likely that the local committee will also take some action in regard to fuel and already Chairman Quigley has written to Mr. Bissell of the Con- necticut Council of Defense asking for full information regarding the coal situation here. Representative E. F. Hall of this city is a member of the Hartford County Committee of the State Council of Defense and the en- tire committee, with {ts subsidiary committees, will probably meet in Hartford short TOO BUSY PLANTING TO OBEY THE LAW Owmer. of. Property. on. Hartford Avenue Failed to Install Fire Escapes as Ordered. . Leon F. Liegey was before Judge James T. Meskill in the police court ! this morning charged with a violation y Of the law regarding fire escapes. Building Inspector A, N. Rutherford testified that he had sent the usual notification to Liegey and had given him an extension of time, but the re- quirements of the lived up to. The building inspector said that four tenement houses owned by the accused at Nos. Star street and No. 218 avenue were not properly Hartford | of egress. | Liegey admitted that he owned the property in question and had been notified to erect the fire escapes, but had been so busy planting potatoes on his farm that he had not had time to fulfill the law, The court continued the case until July 30, with the un- derstanding that by that time there would be a substantial compliance with the law, BIG wrich, factory of Steel Rolling Bundapest, completely’ Sunday, according to word here. The entire stock was The damage will exceed a ‘cror\ns. BLOW July TO BERLIN. 19.—The Hungarian Mills at munitions the Iron and was received raised. law had not been | 31, 34 and 40! equipped | | with fire escapes and had but one way | i Englisfield, | burned | million | Crown Prince Ghose Mile Wide|May Recommend Constitutional Front for Attack Amendment As War Measure PETROGRAD IN ARMS|SUFFS VERGE ON VICTORY Developments' in War Situation In- Slight Inactivity—All Fronts on Edge, tense After Anticipating Re- newed Action. While the world today is awaiting ‘With keen interest the declaration of German policy which the new imper- fal chancellor, Dr. George Michaelis, is expected to deliver in the Reich- stag, the military forces of the bellig- erents for the moment are engaging infantry operations of major import- ance only along the front in eastern Galicia. Reports from this theater of in- tense activity have indicated a lessen- ing in the speed of the Russian drive. There has even been a recession at one point where Austrian and Ger- man reserves have been thrown into the fray in an cffort to stop the Rus- sian onrush which was threatening to roll'up the entire Austro-German dine from Galicia down through the Rumanian mountains and plains All on French Front. Otherwise, the French front northern France presents the notable features of momentar est Few days pass without an effort on the part of the Germans to get back some of the valuable territory which was wrenched from them in the spring offensive, or to make local in- roads elsewhere on the French lines. A new field was chosen for an at- tempt of this sort last evening, the first really sharp attack for some time in the field of the great Hinden- burg retreat of last March being de- livered to the south of St. Quentin. The Crown Prince chose a front nearly a half mile in extent, where the French occupied a hillock to the east of Gauchy. Gen. Petain's forces were taken aback at first by the in- tensity of the drive and yvielded some ground in the first line. They rallied quickly, however, and drove the Ger- mans out of the greater part of the occupied position. Petrograd in Turmoil. The situation in Petrograd con- tinues troubled, but the provisional government apparently has decided to take hold with a firm hand and have it out with the ultra-extreme ele- ments which are keeping the city in a turmoil. Martial control has been established and drastic measures seem to be the order of the day. Meanwhile the cabinet council 1is considering a proposal to transfer the seat of government to Moscow to re- move it from the scene of turmoil and it is also announced that the general assembly of workmen, soldiers and peasants will be held at Moscow prevent interference from an irre- sponsible section of the Petrograd garrison The sinking of a German submarine by a Russian destrover in the Baltic is reported from Petrograd. in Paris, July 19.—The Germans at- tacked last night on a front of 800 meters south of St. Quentin. The war office announces that the enemy | zained a footing in the French first line, but was expelled from the greater part of these positions by a counter attack. A German attempt to regain ground captured by French near Avocourt wood on ‘erdun front, was defeated “rown the French front that the Crown Prince’s the rudest shock when ! French attacked and recaptured the positions northwest of Verdun. Phese cost the Germans much harder {tighting when they took them from the I French, The affair cost the Germans ‘mu only the loss of their former con ! quest and abont five hundred pri { but the French cut into their line repeated n counter att { failed to recover any purt thereol fresulted even more losses. The P Germans wi advanced at the end of Junc possession of a number of observatories giving them splendid views of the French linc. | The Germans have been for several | ¢ antici ing that the French the comes the army the all and cks and aerm in n they obtained avs I (Continued On Ninth Page). “to | | | i | | | | 1 ! | i i 1 i ment as {and asked | with the necessary {should add | program Prominent New York Lawyers Take Up Battle For White House Pickets and Prepare For Sweeping Victory —Women Busy Sewing. Washington, July 19.—President Wilson today issued pardons for, the sixteen suffragists who are serving a sixty day sentence in the workhouse at Occoquan, Va. for picketing in front of the Whlte House. Secretary Tumulty saidl the pardon must speak for itself and that the ‘White House would have no statement to make of the president's reason for his action. Woman’s Party leaders at their headquarters expressed surprise at the president’s action and declared em- phatically that “picketing” of the White House would not stop as a re- sult of it. “Those women now in the work- house have no interest in a pardon,” Miss Mabel Vernon said. “They sub- mitted themselves to arrest in the in- terest of national woman suffrage and not in the interest of a pardon for their alleged offense.” Dudley Field Malone collector customs of New York, who planned to appeal the cases of prisoners, declined to make any ment on the president's action. He received the news at suffrage head- quarters where he was in conference. of had the com- Washington, July 19.—Counsel for the sixteen suffragists serving sixty day sentences at the District of Col- umbia workhouse for picketing in front of the White House were pre- paring today to take an appeal in the case unless President Wilson inter- venes. Dudley Field Malone, collec- tor of the part of New York has rel tained. George Gordon Battle, a New York attorney and another lawyer whose name is undisclosed to aid him in the case. J. A. Hopkins, former democratic national committeeman from New Jersey and husband of one of the prisoners, declared after a long con- ference at the White House that the president had heen deeply shocked at the whole affair and on learning the circumstances has only one thought, namely, to straighten out the matter.” A possible outcome of the situation is a preliminary recommendation to congress of the proposed Susan B. An- thony amendment. President Discusses Question. The President discussed the advisa- bility of treating the Suffrage amend- a war emergency measure for date which would throw light on the question of wheth- er it would be likely to pass Congress majority if he it to his war emergency Mr. Hopkins volunteered to furnish him a canvass of the House and Senate, which, it is contended, will show enough votes for the amend- :ment in both branches. Malone, Mr. Hopkins, Miss Burns and Miss Mabel Vernon went to Occoquan and held a con- ference with the imprisoned suffs, during which it was agreed that they should employ counsel and make a fight to have the decision of Judge Mr. Lucy i Mullowny reversed. Mr. Malone made the | i i i oners | | | the {7 in the main dining another trip to the Workhouse night in the interest of his clientsy The sixteen m' ners, numbered from 2 to 5,987 inclusive,. were called at 6.30 lhl~ morning by the matron of the institution and told to dress for breakfast. They did not ap- pear in their own soft fabrics, but in gray prison garb furnished by the workhouse. Breakfust was served at i hall, with negro and whites ou Whittaker had last one side Waurden prisoners on the other. On Page) (Continued WEATHER. Hartford, July 19.—For Hartford and vicinity: Gener- ally fair tonight and Friday. N e Selective Draft Lottery Ready Washington, July 19.—War de- partment officials announced to- day that the lottery for the se- lection of registrants for the new national army will be held tomor- row. Three states, New York, Penna. and Michigan, have failed to announce completion of local exemption machinery, but returns are expected by tonight. The drawing will be held in the senate office building with members of the senate and housc military committce as witnesses. The identity of the person who is to draw the num- bers has not been divulged, but prevalent reports credit the duty to Secretary Baker. Rehearsals of the drawing held under the su- pervision of Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder, indicate that the pro- ceeding will be completed in about an hour. = Press associations and telegraph companies are today completing final details of the methods to be used in flashing the news of the Tottery to all sections of the coun- try. Special efforts arc being made to insure both speed and ac- curacy in transmission. NOT FAR FROM TRENCHES National Guardsmen May Be Fighting In Francc By November—Plans For Great Send Off in New York. New York, July 19.—News from ‘Washington that the New York Na- tional Guard might be in the trenches in France by November today inten- sified the mustering in preliminaries of the 24,000 men mobilized at the various armories in the city. Plans for the entire guard of the state to participate in a great send-off parade were nearing completion today. The upstate regiments, it was said ,would probably he sent to Spartanburg by the way of this city in order that they might participate in what is expected to be one of the greatest military spectacles ever staged in the city. The date of the parade has not been de- cided upon. Nearly 4,000. applica- tions had been filled up today for the Second officers reserve training camp to be held at Fort McPherson, Ga. Of this number only 952 will be selected from New York city. Applicants for the second training camp were heing examined today on Governor's Island. These tests will be continued until August 7. MURDERER CONFE Tompkins, Held for Murder of Coal Operator, Wife and Son, Breaks Down Johnston, Pa., July 19.—George C. Tompkins of Philadelphia, held in connection with the shooting to death of Edmund I. Humphries, coal operator, his wife, Mrs. Humphries and their fifteen-year-old Edmund, Jr., on a country road Carroltown, this county, last confessed to the three mur- today, according to announce- ment by the police. The confession was made in the presence of Jailer Edward Knee of the county jail and Tompkins' attorney. Tompkins was a member Humphries automobile party. Fol- lowing the shooting he went to the home of a friend and declared that the party had been held up by three masked men, who shot and killed the members of the Humphries family but he escaped by falling to the ground. ES. Carrie son, near Sunda ders of the NOT TO CONFER. For Present, Will Have Do With Atlied Conteres Washington, July 19-—The United States has been officially invited by the Allied governments to purticipate in the inter-Allied conference to be held in Paris some time this month, but has decided that for the present it will not be necessary to take part in such meetings not directly affect- countr, part in the war, officialy explained at department that while was followed at present, Nothing to wes in Parls the state this rourse of a permanent policy . | prominent 'One Man in Every Registration District to Examination. army drawing. There are 4,557 exemption districts with an average of about’ 3,000 reg- istrants The largest has more than 10,000 men registered and In each in each. the smallest only about 185. district each registrant has been giv- en a serial number written upon his card in red ink. For districts with not more than 1,000 registrants the drawing of 1,000 numbers will fix definitely the place upon each district’s list the hame of each man. Where a district has more than 1,000 the master key Wfll have to be applied, thus: “The key will fix the order in \\'h\ch each group of thousands is to be placed on the liability list, which will run from number 1 to more than 10,- 000. For instance, if nine should be the first number drawn for the key all registration numbers in the nine thousand group would go in a block at the hand of the list arranged in the order which the numbers one to one thousand come out in the second drawing. Districts with less than 9,- 000 registrants, therefore, would dis- regard this first block entirely and would be affected only by the position of the key numbers for the blocks corresponding with the - number of thousands of registrants they have.” Out of the 10,000,000 registered, 687,000 are wanted now for the war army. As it is estimated that 50 per cent. of the men called before the boards will be exempted, each board will be directed to call double the number of its quota for examination, in the order their numbers appear on the district list after the drawing. General Crowder announces also that local boards will be instructed to call 200 per cent. of their quota at the first call to provide for prob- able exemptions. That means that 1,374,000 men will be notified to ap- pear for examination within the next few days. If more are necessary, they will be called for as needed by the local boards in the order provided for in the drawing. In some districts the 100 per cent. allowance for exemption may be too] large and in others too small, but the local boards will be instructed in every case to continue calling for men until the district quota is filled. Each state governor is alloting to his dis- | tricts their respective portions of mel state’s quota. Cards Given Serial Numbers. In each of the 4,557 exemption dis- tricts among which the ten million registration cards have been divided, the cards have been given serial num- bers. The number of registrants in each district varies from about 185 in the smallest to more than 10,000 in the largest, so that the serial numbers to be dealt with in the drawing range from one to between nine and ten thousand. ! number as the first to appear before it | for appearance in the arder in which was not to he taken as an indication | their numbers are drawn and la number higher than that appears In order to reduce the mechanical process and make it possible for the 1,000 numbers drawn to reach every man in every district, a so-called mas- ‘ter key has been devised. This will be obtained by drawing slips num bered from naught to ten, which will be listed in the order they are drawn | to form the key Then will begin the drawing of the numbers one to one thousand For the district with not than ona thousand registrants there will be no problem to Jdetermine the order of ap- pearance betore the exemption board. The number drawn first will fix the man whose card bears that serial wmore his board. In the district with only 185 registrants, the 185 will be liable when Washington, July 19.—Nine-thirty ' o'clock row morning and a committee room of the senate offi building have been fixed as the time and place for the wal Reached When Each Capsule Is Selecte --1,374,000 Eligibles to Appear for Physici tomo: Just how the drawing is to be conducted here to morrow, to establish the order of liability for appearand| before local exemption boards of each of the 10,000,00 men registered for war service was disclosed today for t first time by the provost marshal general’s ‘office. .. . There will be two drawings, one of numbers from of to 1,000 and another of from cipher to ten to form a sg called master key by which the thouand number draw will reach every man in every district. the district, of course, will not be fected. Fairness For All Application of the master makes it possible fo apply fairly eal of the one thousand humbers dra to districts with mote than;one' tho sand registrants. 'As a number drawn, it will represent 25, 104 3023, 4025, 5025, 6025, 70 and 9025 dpplvmg the master key t order in which these numbers be listed in each district will be d termined. .If the drawing of ten | merals for the key should result t way, 9, 7, 1,5, 2, 8 0, 8 4 onel then the drawing of 25 as the number of the thousand would fix first men to appear before the e emption boards in this order:‘ 902 7025, 1025, 5025, 2025, 3025, 25, 80; 4025 and 6025, The district with more than ni thousand registrants thus will hay ten of its men assigned to their plag at the head of its list, with 9,025 d top. The district with less than o thousand men will have one numbe at the head of its list. T process will be continued until evel man .of the ten million has been signed to his place on the roster his district In his explanation of the proce and of the reason for fixing the ard | of liability for all the men when on| 687,000 say! are need, General Crowd: The Order of Examination. “If we were dealing with cient draft, we shou?d uxkem:v fourteenth man. But we are not cof scripting. We are selecting for mil tary service those whose civil servi can best be spared. Therefore question is not Who shall go But who shall be first called’ up examination, and what we must is to make a list showing the order ¢ examination. “Now no one knows how many mel must be examined to yield 687,008 soldiers. Therefore no one can st just how many men it is absolutel] necessary to put on t Ust. ‘A moment’s reflec! will pro that the whole 10,000,000 must given their places on the list g ‘order of examination’. Every registered man is in a stat| of uncertainty. He does not knoy when he will be called. He hesitate to plant a crop for fear he will reap it. Employers hesitate to enga his services, fearing they will be bi temporary. This condition ought H be cured for the repose of the publli mind . It can be cured to some by putting every man on the s ¢ ‘ “For this reason the whole ten miifl lion names are to be given places, @ the list of order of examination.. f The Segregation Into Groups. “Obviously no single agency coul examine 10,000,000 men. Therefor the 10,000,000 are segregated ini groups of suitable size for convenien examination. There are 5,557 of thes groups. For each group a board ha Leen appointed to examine for selec tion. By far the greater number o these groups consist of upproximatel 3,000 men “Since this to put the whole one list urranged in the ovder of amination. 1t is 10 determine thd order of examination in each group. The Necessity fol Drawing. nee all amen stand i an equality of right and duty, thd question of priovity can only be de termined by Jot or drawing. It woul he possible to have 4,557 separatd Adrawings—one. for each group—bu! since methods would vary and sincd supervision and absolute insurancd s 50, our problem is no 10,000,000 names iy registered (Continued On Ninth Page).