New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917. . REVOLVER BATTLE IN HARLEM STREET One Killed, Three Tnjured, When Gangs Open Fire New York, Aug. 21.—Just as New York was beginning to believe that = the good old gangs and gang shooting were happily past, a revolver battle took place in one of the most populous sections of Harlem last night. For wildness and picturesque cffects the combat was equal to anything seen here in years. were not killed or wounded was markable. The fight took place at One Hun- dred and Tenth street and Second Avenue. Seven men first “shot up” the saloon of Guiseppe De Luca and re- ’ a few minutes later wrecked a drug | the | store opposite because one of wounded men had gone there to have his wound dressed. Joseph Sacco of No. 245 East One ! Hundred and Tenth Street, said to have been the leader of the gunmen, was instantly killed, and three men * were taken to Harlem Hospital suffer- ing from shot wounds. They are Dominic de Luca, son of the saloon- keeper; Vincenzo Sucarate of No. 347 East One Hundred and Ninth Street, | 2 lad who was watching the fight, and | Francesco Aita of No. 258 East One Hundred and Twelfth Street, another spectator. The gunmen drew up in front of De | Luca’s saloon in an automobile, drew yrevolvers and entered. In the saloon ' were Giuseppe De Luca, his wife and their sons, Dominico and Antonio. | The latter lives across the street at No. 2135 Second Avenue. The erowd outside immediately heard shots. These were a fusilade fired at the De Luca family. Most went wild, for only Dominick was hit, but the sa- ; loon was wrecked. The mirrors were shattered, the windows were broken and most of the glassware was smash- ed. In the excitement Dominico De Luca escaped through a back window and ran to his home. Thinking his family had been killed, he armed him- self with a French army revolver and mixed with the crowd. Calmly Drive Off in Car. After demolishing the saloon gunmen put their revolvers in their pockets, climbed into their auto and leisurely made off up the avenue. About a block away the car stopped and the men looked back. Not a per- eon in the throng of 5,000 persons made a move to Interfere with them. After a time Dominick De Luca dodged out of the saloon and ran to the That a dozen persons ; 1 { i HERE’S FLAG OUR SHIPS WILL TAKE TO EVERY CORNER OF SEVEN SEAS Board’s The United States Shipping New Official Fl In a few:weeks there will begin to appear on the seven seas a new flag, symbolizing the return of the United leading maritime nations of the earth. The new standard is the recently adopted official flag of the United States Shipping Board, which is cre- ating a national merchant fleet. a white ground is shown the national shield in full colors of red, white and letters The flanked on the left by the “U. 8. and on the right “S. B."” Opinion Disgresses to Defend Sending Troops to Europe Mount Airy, Ga., Aug. 21.—In deny- ing a writ of habeas corpus to two slackers who refused to register, Unit- ’ the drug store. The gunmen saw him entér and rightly judged that he had gone to have his wound dressed. Thereupon they headed the car back and stopped in front of the drug shop. By this time the erowd had greatly in- creased and the shop was packed with men and women. The gunmen calmly sat in the car And began to shoot into the drug store. The first shots smashed the windows. Dominick, feigning death, dropped to the floor. Those in the store velled and darted out of the door 6r behind the counters. The druggist vanished behind his prescrip- tion case. The boy Sucarato and Aita were slow in getting under cover and ywere hit. With the store partly cleared the gunmen had a better view and they shot bottles, glass cases, prescription case and préetty much everything else in the place. After they had done a thorough job, the automobile proceed- ed up Second Avenue and disappeared. But Sacco was left behind, dead, in the street in front of the drug store. The police got on the job quickly +and arrested Antonio DeLuca ‘on a charge of violating the Sullivan Law. They say he admitted he had singled out Sacco and killed him. He was locked up on a charge of homicide. It was two hours before the neigh- borhood quieted down to normal. CIVIL WAR VETS MARCH. > Boston Watches Boys of ’61 Parade Through Streets. Boston, Aug. 21.—Several thousand blue-clad veterans who fought for their country in the Civil war marched through the city’s streets today. The line of march was the shortest ever selected for the annual parade of the Grand Army. The veterans were favored by a clear sky, moder- ate temperature and a refreshing breeze. The chief marshal was J. Payson Bradley of this city. In the line were the departments of the Grand Army in order of seniority of organization, the national officers and past com- mander in chief in automobiles, the sons of veterans, former prisoners of war, naval veterans and a rear guard of disabled veterans in cars. Com- mander in Chief William J. Patterson reviewed the parade from a large grandstand on the Tremont street side of the Common, Governor McCall at the State House and Mayor Curley at City hall. SEFEING NEW YORK. Belgian Mission Visits Interesting Points Around Mnnhnus{n. New York, Aug. 21.—The Belgian war mission, the fifth of the foreign missions to visit New York, was for- mally welcomed here today by Mayor Mitchel. At the request of the mem- bers of the mission today's program will be simple. A war time aspect was given to the public greeting at City hall by the presence of the Seventh Regiment and 500 sailors and 200 marines from the navy yard as a guard of honor. During the afternoon the mission will be escorted through Long Island City and Brooklyn to Coney Island and ed States Judge Emory Speer of the Southern District of Georgia yester- day upheld in toto the constitutionali- ty of the selective draft law. The language of the opinion, the first rendered on the subject, is most unusual in that the judge not only de- parts from judicial phrases to make a flery defence of the plan to send American troops abroad, but also as- serts that the nation has a right to use every man and every energy ‘‘to de- feat the migration to its soil of mighty natians or ferocious warriors whose barbarous inhumanity for three vears States to all its fellowship with the | On | blue, supported by a blue anchor, and | BY GEORGIA JUDGE proportions of the flag, in the size to be flown by a ship of 8,000 tons, are six feet hoist to nine feet length. The flag was designed by Charles Collens, a Boston architect and de- ! signer. Mr. Collens made several sketches, showing different designs, and with them enlisted the interest of Henry Howard, the shipping board’s director of recruiting, whose ! headquarters are at the Boston cus- tom house. Mr. Howard took the de- signs to Washington, and placed them | before the board, which adopted the | one shown here. beggars, to spend whatever intervals of degraded life remain to them in ab- ject slavery to the conqueror. But our organic law does not so shackle the gigantic energies of the great republic. “It is said that there is no express | power to send armies beyond the sea. True, but there is no express power to enact the criminal laws of the United States; none to convey the public do- main; to build a transcontinental rail- road; nor to construct the Isthmian Canal; nor to create the I. C. C.; nor to declare the Monroe Doctrine; nor to made the Louisiana Purchase; nor to ! buy Alaska, or to take over Porto Rico and the Philippines. “This has all been done under the great power to promote the general welfare, just as the selective army will be created under the law here as- sailed ‘to provide for the common de- fence', and beyond and above all is the inherent power of every nation, how- ever organized, to utilize its every man and its every energy to defend its lib- erty and to defeat the migration to its soil of mighty nations of ferocious warriors whose barbarous inhumanity for three years has surpassed all oth- ers since the death of Attila, the of God. The writs are de- has surpassed all others since the death of Attila, the scourge of ‘God." The attorney for the slackers was Tom Watson, whose paper has been carrying on a campaign against the law which has caused trouble all aver the country. Judge’s Opinion. The petitioners, now imprisoned in Georgia, contend that the act violated the Thirteenth Amendment prohibit- ing slavery. The opinion says: “To agree to this contention we must conclude that the soldier is a slave. Nathing could be more ab- horrent to the truth, nothing more de- grading to that indispensable and gal- lant body of citizens trained in arms to whose manhood, skill and courage is and must be committed the task of maintaining the very existence of the nation and all that its people hold dear. The Grand Army of the Repub- lic and the Confederate Veterans are not maintained to preserve the tradi- tions of slavery. Nations do not pen- sion slaves to commemorate their va- Tariiieiios “The sole additional ground of the petition is that by the common law it was the right of petitioners to ‘remain within the realm’ and that this right should now be held to relieve them from military service beyond the bor- ders of the United States. “The reply is that the common law, that is the immemorial English com- mon law, cannot prevail as to the United States or its people against the explicit provision of an act of Con- gress. Nor has a court of the United States power to declare an act of Con- gress invalid because it is inimical to the common law. The touchstone for such judicial power is the Constitution and nothing else. “Tt remains to be determined wheth- er the Constitution has conferred au- thority on Congress to enact this law. Clause 11 of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution emrowers Congress ‘to raise and support armies’. This power is plenary.- It is not restricted in any manner. Congress may sum- mon to its army thus authorized every citizen of the United States. Since it may summon all it may summon any. Service Abroad. “There remains to be considered the contention that Congress cannot em- ploy the national army to be created by virtue of this legislation in foreign lands or beyond the seas. If this is true, then indeed is our country impo- tent. Then must its people indeed suf- fer in their own homes, in their cities and on their farms all the horrors of invasive war. “Was this contention maintainable, the misguided men who for their per: sonal case advance it might all too late discover their fatal error. They would discover it in the flaming home. | steads, in the devastated flelds in mur- dered brethren, in outraged wives and back to New Yotk by way of Fort Hamilton settion. Buy an Indlana truck.—advt. daughters; in their lands, their fac- tories, their merchandise, their stock their all, coolly appropriated by the conqueror; homeless, landless and TANKS TERRORIZE ALL IN THEIR PATH Play mlmportant Role in Cleaning Out Prussian Nests. British Front in France and Belgi- um, Aug. 21.—British tanks scored an- other triumph in the capture of im- portant German positions in the neigh- borhood of the Ypres-Poelcapelle road north of St. Julien. It was a tank show almost start to finish, and the infantry in this case played the part of supernumer- aries in support of the leading actors, while large numbers of the enemy troops added a final melodramatic touch by surrendering abjectly or flee- ing in terror as the heavy heroes lum- bered on to the stage and ‘“‘reached for their shooting irons.” As recorded in the official com- munication, the British captured Ger- man defenses along a mile front to a depth of 500 yards. Among the strongholds occupied were the famous triangle, Hibau and Cockcroft Farms, the sites of exceedingly strong con- crete and steel machine gun redoubts which menaced the infantry advance. It was dawn when the tanks lined up and waited for the signal to “go over the top”. The British artillery poured a preliminary stream of shells into the German lines, then dropped a barrage ahead of the iron monitors, which started forward, looking in the gray morning light like great dragons from a fairy tale. Behind them came the infantry ready to do the cleanin up of the ene- my remaining after the tanks had fin. ished their part. But there was lit- tle for the infantry to do except as- semble and care for the prisoners as the tanks progressed. There was hard fighting at several positions, such as the redoubts mentioned, but it was al- ways brief. The tanks whseled into position and from turned a heavy fire on the fortifica- tions, and the Germans were either killed or surrendered. 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Mr. Johnson said he was staggered when he_ thought of the amount of money thus far required for war pur- poses. “Twenty billions of dollars!” he exclaimed. “To talk of that much expended or incurred in liabilities before a single shot is fired is infinite and wholly beyond my financial un- derstanding. “All this our people are willing to do. But in doing it they ask not alone that the burden be plseed upon them; not alone that they shall re- spond with their best beloved and their blood, but that it also be placed on those who make profit out of the war and out of this crisis. “The great corporations will give enconiums on the revenue bill, but the wisdom and equity of this bill will be attacked and questioned by the men and women who give their sons and those who have to pay a tax on their tea and coffee, and post- age—the little things of everyday lite. ‘“What do we say to the Steel Cor- poration? - We give it a dividend upon first its preferred stock. Then we permit it to pay all of its expenses and taxes of every kind, and then give it a dividend equal to more than has been paid in upon its capital stock. ‘“How the people must laugh to scorn a Congress that deals thus ten- derly with war profits while dealing with such severity with the common human clay to put against the guns the Steel Corporation makes. Under this bill there is returned to the Steel Corporation this year nearly $300,000,- 000—coined in blood, bone and sinew. You cannot justify giving back $300,- 000,000 profits to a corparation at a time like this. “England today takes 80 per cent of the war profits there to run the war. We take less than 20 per cent. Simmons Contradicts Johnson. Senator Simmons denied this state- ment. He said the Revenue bill takes an average of 44 per cent from the Steel Corporation. “Recently a Japanese missian came to San Francisco,” Mr. Johnson con- tinued. “Four weeks ago I had the in- vitation to attend the ceremonies and the various entertainments in behalf of that mission. For three weeks all the papers of San Francisco have been exploiting that particular entertain- ment and that misslon’'s views, and here in Washington and in the East although all California has published every detail, we read each day ‘at a Pacific port.' If you can tell me why that sort of bosh should be indulged in with a people intelligent, patriotic and self-sacrificing O Iwould indeed be delighted.” Senator Johnson declared that the income surtaxes imposed by the Rev- enue bill stop too soon. He deplored the fact that the man drawing an income of $10,000,000 does not have to pay any more than the man who pays tax on an income of $500,000. Senator Johnson urged Congress to take all the money from these great, incomes that can be. taken without;) causing poverty and starvation. Senator La Follette introduced twor| amendments to the income tax secw tion on behalf of the minority. One proposed increases in surtaxes on in- cames between $5,000 and $47,600 and a maximum of 33 per cent on all over $47,500. An alternative amendment would have the principal surtaxes ap- ply to incomes from $5,000 to $17,500, with a maximum of 33 per cent on those over the latter figure. Senator King of Utah declared he would offer a substitute for the Sim- mons bill to Taise the money princi- pally from incomes and excess profits by a graduated system of taxation run- ning to 60 per cent or higher. He eliminates consumption taxes. He claims his bill will produce $2,500,000. Buy an Indiana truck.—advt. * REIGHMAN HELD UP Lieutenant Colonel Who Was A of Pro-German Sentiment Fails Promotion. . Washington, Aug. 21.—The _ se: late yesterday confirmed the list'. Major Generals and Brigadier- erals submitted last week by dent Wilson with the exception, two men. These were Lieut-Col. Reichman of the United States & who had been nominated to be Brigadier-General and against wh the charge was made by Senotor indexter that he was a pro-Ge sympathizer, and ex-Adjt-Gen. Hi De Witt Hamilton of New York, recently was badly injured. The military affairs committee Arformed from the war departm that the nomination of Brig.-G ‘Hamilton would be withdrawn by t| president. Gen. Hamilton, it also stated, had broken a leg since nomination was sent in and his ac dent is considered enough to limit usefullness for several months least. It was explained that the withdra; al of Gen. Hamilton’s name did reflect on his patriotism and loyal to the country. o Lieut-Col. Reichman arrived he prepared to face the senate com: tee and plead his own case. It sald that he hoped to refute charges of pro-Germanism. Just h he intended to go about it was disclosed, but in view of the se! ness of the statements which he s leged to have made complete disp! of their authenticity will be requi ~—