New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1917, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” BETTER BUSI PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917. —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED! FIRST DISTRICT DRAFT BOARD - CALLS 970 FOR EXAMINATION Official List of Men Eligible for Military Service —1;1 First, Third and Fifth Wa Announced Today--PhysiCal Inspection Opens Next Tuesday Morning ARM OF LAW REACHES OUT FOR RESISTERS OF DRAFT Drastic Steps to Be Taken By Government to Sup- press Uprisings in South and West. OKLAHOMA SEAT OF GREATEST TROUBLE ! Posscs Regin Bands Who Search for Roaming Abandoned Crops and Fled to Wilderness—Sheriffs Hot on Trail Agitators—One of of Arrested With Casc Ammunition—Rail- road Bridge Burned. Washington, Aug. 4.—Persons sisting the draft law, department Jjustice officials announced today, in Oklahoma or elsewhere will be sought out, run down, and brought before the proper authorities, no mat- ter at what cost. Provost Marshal General Crowder and Assistant Attorney General Fitts, in charge of the enforcement of tho draft law, conferrqd at length today as to steps to be taken to check anti- draft agitators in North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma and other local- ities. The war department is in touch with the situation and is pared to take drastic and steps, if necessary in the affected dis- tricts, Secretary Baker or General Crowder probably will issue a senti- ment later today outlining the de- partment’s position. Just what steps will be taken to bring to the justice the men who are #preading sentiment in the south and elsewhere against the draft law were not announced. Mr. Fitts in the ab- sence of Attorney General Gregory, tssued this statement: “Whether in Oklahoma, or any- where clse, if persons who are regu- larly sclected for military service under the selective law fail to obey when properly notified and called, they will be reached and overtaken by the strong arm of the federal law and brought before the proper reg- istration boarc Mrs. Fitts' first int anti-draft movement in Oklahoma was obtained today from the news- papers. While department agents and field investigators have been Jooking into the situation there for xome time past, it was said there re- ports had not been brought to his at- tentjon this forenoon. The situation so far as he knew then was no dif- ference in Oklahoma than in other sections of the country where sporadic demonstrations against the law have occurred. Officlals were inclined to minimize the seriousness of the sit- uation, hased on unofficial reports, in Oklahoma. Field investigators, however, some time ago reported to the department that trouble might be found in en- forcing the law in certain sections of Oklahoma. Posses Seck Malcon Tents. Oklahoma City, Aug., 4.—At dawn today an organized effort to search out In the rough and timbered sections of their countries the various bands of armed objectors openly defying the draft was begun by four sheriffs and posses of hundreds of men. The num- erical strengthiof the resistunts has not been revealed, but it is known that the disorder hus spread through Hughes, Seminole, Pottawatomle, and Pontotoe counties and that one band numbers at leust eighty men. oOne other is reported to contain 400. “The objectors upparently made thelr frst appearance in force In Seminole county. where, for several days, o punized resistance to the draft has been reported, Tenant farmers, fn- dinns and negroes are suid to compose the organizations which already have partially destroyed two railroad bridges, abandoned their crops and gevered communications from varlous towns outside which they gathered. Predominant among the objectors ore sald to he members of the work- ing cl unicn having a member- ehip of with a few members’of re- of close pre- effective rmation of the es 300 (Continued on Tenth Page.) ‘JOHNNY DE SAULLES SHOT BY EX-WIFE Famous Yale Quarterback Shot Five Times By Chilean Beauty. New York, Aug. 4.—Repeated dif- ferences over the custody of their son, four and a half yeer old, mother whom the was anxious to take with her on a visit to her own home in Chile, were assigned today as the cause of the murder last night of John Longer De Saulles by his divorced wife, Mrs. Bianca Errazuriz De Saulles. Mrs. De Saulles spent last night in the jai at Mineola, L. I., where she was tak- en after a brief hearing, which re. sulted in her being charged with first degree murder. Beyond sending for her attorney and notifying her mother in South America of her arrest Mrs. De Saulles declined to make a state- ment. Mrs. De Saulles, who has a summer home at Roslyn, motored to a cottage occupied by her former husband late last night and requested that her son be allowed to spend August with her. Mr. De Saulles refused the request and there followed a few moments of earnest conversation between the pair apd Mr. De Saulles made a move as if to enter to the house when Mr. De Saulles shot him five times in the back. He died soon after being taken to a hospital. Last night's shooting came as a cli- max to a romance that interested two continents. It started with the court- ship in South America in the spring of 1910, when De Saulles went to Chile as a representative of a company in- terested in railroad construction. A vear later he married Bianca Erraz- uriz in Paris. At the tlme of his marriage, De Saulles spoke of his wife as “the lovellest girl in the world”, and the first intimation that thg cou- ple were not happy came friends in July .of last year when Mrs. De Saulles began a suit for divorce and named a popular Broadway dan- cer and actress as co-respondent. Al- though reputed to be worth many mil- lions in her own right, Mrs. De Saulles was awarded alimony of $300 a month, which was to be cut in half should she re-marry. John Longer De Saulles first won prominence as a quarterback at Yale his popularity among college men into politics, successfully heading two or- ganizations, one during the campaign of 1912 for the election of President Wilson and the second for the election of Mayor Mitchel. ‘As a reward for his work in 1912, President Wilson appointed Mr. De SBaulles minister to Uruguay, but he declined the honor and engaged in the real estate busi- ness in this city. He was the son of Mr. and Mvs. Arthur De Saulles of South Bethlehem, Pa. His father, who was a major on the staff of Gen- eral Polk of the Confederate army, was one of the witnesses of the shoot- ing last night, Mrs. De Saulles 1is 23 vears old, a member of one of the richest families in Sauth America and a neice of a former president of Chile. It was recalled today that several months ago shortly before Mrs. De Saulles applied to the court for per- mission to take her son on a visit to Chlle that a message of a few words was delivered to her by a priest. The messenger, Rev. James Kent Stone of the Passionist Fathers in South America, sald he came more than 4,000 | mntles to deliver the message and re- fused to disclose Its contents to the public. The message Is sald to huve been delivered to the priest by the mother of Mry. De Saulles, who pledged him to secrecy. An inquest into the murder was to be held at Mineola today by the cor- oner. A deposition flled by Deputy Sheriff Leonard Thorn states that he found Mrs. De Saulles with her maid near the De Saulles house after the | shooting and Mrs. De Saulles, after asking if he was an officer, admitted the shooting and said “Yes. 1 did the shooting and T hope he will die.” Mrs. De Saulles also (Continued on Eleventh FPage) their |16 W and after his graduation he carried | FIRST DISTRICT EXEMPTION BOARD A. F. CORBIN. DR. T. E. REEKS, MISSION T0 RUSSIA |STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE HOME VIA PACIFIC Naturalized Amerlcans Blamed for Conditions in New Republic SAY U.-S. IS OPPRESSIVE German I‘|'0|u|;:1|ll(hl Partly to Blame For Chaotic Sttuation—Socialists Beginning to Realize Autocracy Must Be Eliminated From World. A Pacific Port, Aug. 4.—The Amer- fcan mission to Russia, Elihu Root, landed here late last night. No officlal statement on their werk in tho mission will make after its return hington was made public Mur. Root, acting as spokesman, declared that he had nothing to say except that the party had been hospitably received in every Russian city visited. Irom the R ian revolution be cvolved a stable government, cording to James Duncan, vice pr dent of the American Federation of Labor. Its establishment is retarded, he declared, by the radical so-called reformers, who have returned to Rus- sla from America. The success of the revolution he attributed to the workmen of Russia by whom the pro- paganda of freedom was first carried to the peaswent class at the time of the original Duma in 1905. Charles Edward Russel said the task of new Iussia was greatly hand- jcapped by German propaganda. “Most of the trouble, however, has been caused by Russians naturalized ag Americans, who have returned to Russin since the outbreak of the revolution,” he said, and he added that Russians from the United States spread the report throughout country that America bhad entered the war from sordid reasons “These propagandists,’” Mr. Rus- sell continued, “‘who pretend to have an intimate knowledge of American conditions and American motives, in- form their native countrymen that the wovernment of the United States is more oppressive than the old re- gime at Petrograd.” He declared that the extremists of the socialist party were demanding the immediate institution of a social- 4st commonweulth regardless of the menace of German militarism but that mosts of the socianlists were com- ing to understand that the world must he made safe for democrucy before they can be any understanding for so- clal betterment Declaring that the sociadist party in America in the honds of German ndists, Mr. Russell made his ;1o his expulsion from that headed by Russia or on the report that will ot party ‘he constitution of the arty in the United States vt it Gro e G socialist provides without a “so 1 consider but T have hearing.” he asserted, that 1 have hen expelled. on 1 (Continued enth Page.) the | 'FOUR NOW TAKING " PASTEUR TREATMENT i Hydrophobia Epidemic Worse Than Was at First Thought. i Is Four cases in which there is every reason to believe that the patients are infected with' the deadly hydrophobia germ, as a result of being bitten by mad dogs during the past week are known to the board of health. these cases, Dr. Henry T, Bray has already gone to New York to undergo the treatment at the Pasteur institute and two other victims on Cherry street are planning to go there imme- diately. Upon recelving positive in- | formation last night that in each case the victim had been bitten by a mad | dog, Dr. T. E. Reeks, superintendent j of health, got into immediate com: munication with the hospital authori- ties and a telegram was dispatched to | New York for anti-hydrophobia ser- | um which, if used in tme, is effective jin preventing fatal results. The serum is expected today and will be used at ! the local hospital on three patients. | Three dogs that had bitten people | earlier in the week and had been killed by Dog Warden Coffey were ex- humed vyesterday by Dr. George T. | Crowley and the heads were sent to Middletown to the state laboratories. The finding of the surgeons there showed that in each instance the dogs had been suffering from hydrophobla and therefore the persons bitten are undoubtedly affected. This morning J. M. Whittlesey, commissioner on domestic animals, sent a formal notice to the city stat- ing that effective at noon on August 9 all dogs must be muzzled. Dogs found without muzzles will be promptly taken and killed by the au- thorities, Dr. Reeks, also issued a warning today advising people to watch their dogs carefully and not to hesitate In case suspicious symptoms were noted. There s no way of telling what dogs huve become infected with the hy- drophobla germ during the past few days. The doctor called attention to the great fear which the public has tor small pox, infantile paralysis and other similar diseases, but explained that none of these compared with hy- dArophobin. Unless proper treatment i given in time, hydrophoblu is posi- tively fatal to the human being an® (ransmitted by the slightest from infected animal's o ch tecth. an S TS WEA' Hartford, Ang. $—T ford and vicinity Continued fair; Sunday warmer. N N e or ! PROTESTS DRAFT ESTIMATES Insists Connecticut Should Receive Credit for Excess Requirements if Second Call for Men Comes. (Special to the Merald.) Hartford, August 4.—In a letter set- ting forth in detail facts indicating that Connecticut’s quota in the first draft for the new national army is greatly in excess of. what It should be, the Connecticut State Council of Defense has written to Provost Mar- shal General E. H. Crowder ‘‘making a respectful but most urgent request that steps be at once taken looking to different and more equitable ap- portionment in ensuing draft levies,” and at the same time “strongly in- sisting that due credit should be given to the state of Connecticut in sub- sequent levies for the excess number of soldiers to be furnished by it under the Inequitable and unfair basis of contribution Heretofore used.” The letter contends that justice to this state can be had only by means of a credit to be given when future quotas are levied—this credit to be equal to the number in excess of Con- necticut’s fair allotment apportioned to this state under the first draft. The Cauncil of Defense estimates that this excess is at least 4,000, The Connecticut State Council of Defense unanimously voted two weeks ago to send this protest to General Crowder, but inasmuch as it desired to do nothing that might delay the calling of the first increment for the new national army, the sending of the letter was delayed until now. The Letter of Protest. The complete text of the letter of the State Council of Defense to Gen- eral Crowder follows:— “Provost Marshal Gen. E. “War Department, “Washington, D. C. “Dear Sir: We beg to sukmit here- with certain statoments and consid- crations which we belicve demon- strate beyond question that methods recently employed by the war depart- ment for allotting the draft quotas among the several states worked a great Injustice to the state of Con- necticut. “In view of the facts and conclu- sions® herelnarter set forth we feel warrantdd in making a respectful but most urgent request that steps bs taken ut once looking to a different und more equitable method of oppor- tloning the ensuing draft levies, and at the same tlme we strongly insist that due credit should be glven to the state of Connecticul in subsequent levies for the excess number of sol- diers required to_be furnished by it under the inequitable and unfair basis of contribution heretofore used. “Connecticut, during the months of Fehruary, March and April, 1917, made a complete census of its male Population hevond the age of 15 years and has preserved the records of that H. Crowder, (Continued on Tenlh Page.) ’}T hree Days Allowed in Schedule for Tes! All Candidates for New American A Second District, Consisting of Second, F and Sixth Wards, N ot Called Until Aug Letters calling the first 970 men on the draft list i first exemption district, comprising the first, third fifth wards, have been mailed and examinations willi gin on next Tuesday morning, August 7, at 8:30,] the prevocational grammar school and continue fbr August 9, If, after 970 men have been examined,” district’s quota of 274 men has not been filled, the bg will continue to summon additional men in their order: til the proper number has been accepted. ‘While the first district will begin the actual draft next week, it is hardly likely that the second district, com- prising the second, fourth and sixth wards, will begin to call the eligible men before Monday, August 13. Stephen Robb, clerk of this board, stated this morning that, due to un- foreseen ditficulties, the routine work has been hampered go that the actual call for men will very likely be post- poned one week. Schedule For Examinations. A. F. Corbin, Dr. T. E. Reeks and James J, Watson, members of the first district exemption board, have devised a systematiq schedule for the. arder. of. cxamination of drafted men, . On Tuesday, August 7, the first man on the list will be expected ta appear for examination at 8:30 A. M. With him will appear the men whose sequence numbers go to.25.. At 9. o’'clock men from 26 to 75 will appear and this or- der will be followed during the entire day and .the following days of . the draft. Herewith is printed the offi- cial order in which the men have been called for examination: Number Tuesday, Tth: 8:30 9:00 10:00 11:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 . Wn’(lneldav A\lku‘it 8:30 A M. 9:00 10:00 August A, M. 1 26 76 126 161 176 261 8th: 326 351 401 to to to to to to 2 to 3 a0 AL to to to 400 450 11:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 Thursday, 8:30 9:00 10:00 11:00 2:00 3:00 451 476 501 576 AL\ \lst 9th: 476 500 675 650 to to to to Ui Ed bt .5.5.53.3 to to to to to 675 725 775 800 825 to 900 4.00 to 970 The following table gives the serial number, the man to whom it belongs, his address and the order in which he will appear for examination: Serial No. MuuE sy BRRRREEE Order No. 2787—Joseph Walesyk, 144 Grove St. 1858—Pcttro Gal, 461 Myrtle St. 2389-—Absalom Jacob, 72 Broad St. 3667—John Haromoswski, 10 Gold St. 3637—Robert P. O'Neil, 25 Broad St. —Stephen A. Sinskie, 132 Farmington Ave. 2494—John Krzyske, 182 High St. 3674—Isaac Kolodney, 310 High St. 3200—Natausis Skiabilig, © 40 Beaver St. 3082—Peter Dongurkis, 40 Beaver St. 3505-—Joseph Povilonis, 199 ‘Washington St. rnest H. Selander, 87 Garden St. 1672—Stanislaw Sekula, 40 Horace St. —James Marnelli, 223 High St. 1748—Valarien Zalewski, 48 Allen St. 2195—Joseph Cappello, 50 Lafayette St. / ward M. Isleib, 55 Grand St. 2036—Howamus Gajian, 29 Lafayette St. 837—¥red H. Schroeder, 20 Division St. 876—Edwin N. Lewis, 179 Lake St. 275—Joseph Motto, 158 Arch St. $827—Basil Clautauzo, 181 Washington St. 509—Fred. M. Steinman, 383 S. Main St. 1185-—Basile Clantanzo, 181 Washington St. 564—Tony Polumbo, 2 Mill St 2166—Joseph Wrobleski, 98 Grove' St. 945—Joseph J. Meskill, 458 Myrtle St. 1918-—Norhard Sicitta, 126 High St. 596—Henry Dressel, 419 S. Main' St. 3543—David Halter, 23 Lafayette St. 3067—Dominic Rapaceski, 153 Broad St. 2620—John A. Hylenskli, 1752 1117— 2762 837— 258—Frank Bridle, 226 §. Main St. 2622—Ben). Yaclenrcr, 42 Sllver St. 458—Harold A. Stotts, 16 ‘W, Pearl Bt. 3403—Stanley Sagan, 191 Broad St. 1436—Robert T. Pierson, Dennison’s Garage 2624—Joseph Sjribert, 50 Horace 8t. 854—Wm. Kranss, 242 Main St. 1894—NMike Honko, 1 Ann 8t. 1878-——John Pucclo, 234 Washington St. 8267-—Joe Staneskd, 45 Overlook Ave. 1095—Frank Knaus, 37 Wakefleld Court 2082—Barnard Wlekowskl, 127 Broad St. 8883—aAnthony Dulfini, 120 Beaver St. 8383—Powel Osowskl, 36 Stlver St. 1465—Andrew Rogala, 279 High St. 3679—Paul Karris, 16 Sexton St. 8765—Stanislaw Ruszczwk, 36 Grove St. 783—Raffel Garcia, 44 Camp St. 1813—Peter Kacysyensky, 96 Sexton St 199 Broad St. 29386—Waclaw Mojkowski, 10 Gold 8t. 1287—Karol Usananski, 26 Silver St. 8746—William F. Finneran, 168 Beaver St. 2148—Julius Fengler, 115 Beaver St. 536—James R, Chalmers, 223 Glen Bt 8812—Frank Kaszuowicius, 24 Sexton St. 1496—Honorus D. Abramiau, 29 Latayette St. 2463—Alex Rusyzk, 262 High St. -George Pern, 176 High St ~William Kern, 128 Glen St 126-—Wililam R. Klumb 9 Wallace St 3000—Chung Youl Suns, 11 Lafayette St Peter Kozol, 23 Lyman St Albin Johnson, 260 High St. 3331—Nathaniel Shlemon, 21 Horace St. 1237—Joseph Bobrowski, 99 Broad St. 784—Danjel Donnini, 282 Main St. 8640- 548 1679~ 8604 (Coutinued on Second Page)