New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1917, Page 10

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. STEAMER AL DEMAREE MAY LOOM BIOREF TRIED O[0P WAR BILL ptinued from First Page) { i Which the p:u\rrn—‘ &d sought to influcuce con- | German e manner in which the money for this purposc was expended, evioys instances and the indi- I8 carrying | jgh not jnown to the tate the department of justic bureau of inv gation for than three vears has been con- he a rigid illance of Ger- jcti s in country. 1 ords of the wrtment of jus- | re overflowing with reports from | eds of n concerni G intrigues here, many of which | the German embassy and some iich resulted in the recall, ent Wilson's request, of Bos and Von Papc an 1 and military aide ed to Keep Own S| to this time Boy-ed and Von | had appeared : the master | of German propaganda here. | ations that German plots and in- | s were directed not by them but unt Von Bernstorff, with the full | val of Berlin herctofor had been | by officials with silence. s past, however, there have 1 indications that the Ame ment had established Von Ber s direct conn 1 with much b German secret work conducted | and that there was ample basi request for h recall months le the diplomatic br with Ge Up to the time of Boy-ed's on Papen’s recall Von Bern- | , apparently for diplomatic rea- | had sought to remain clear per- | ly of connection with the great e of pro-German activities con- d here by his attaches. From psur: concerning Boy-ed's and ¢ Papen’s manifold activities here 1s apparently obtaincd the im- ion that Von Bernstorff, in most ces, had left the conduct of an propaganda in the hands of bordinates, with only casual sion of their activities, in favor mally. “imations have been more or less lent, however, at trials and other sedings instituted against pro- Jan agents in this countr that on the bsed, propaganda presumably | department dis H sur tr d irts Clear. | New York, Sept. 21.—Was the per- formance of Al Demaree of the Giants in the second game of a recent double header with the Braves mere- | Iy a flash in the pan or has Steamer Al settled back into a winning stride | after several weeks of mediocre work Demaree not only humbled the Boston outfit, but he did it in such | the a manner that it appeared as if he had | more life. Not in the last two year: would have had in his favor. ! Never famous as a fas it up at the hewildered Boston ters than it wa his makeup. His curve balls ! ninth inning. Five hits were made off his delivery, was in difficulty only once. in al BIG IN COMING WORLD’S SERIES a shutout recorded ball pitcher, Demaree seemed to have more speed on the pellet as he flung bat- supposed he had in broke well and he did not issue a pass until and he That was KiNSFOLK AND FRIENDS ASSEMBLE IN THOUSANDS TO SEE GUARDSMEN OFF| who do not come back will be remem- bered with love by their country and enshrined in the hearts of those they are leaving behind. Thousands of the home folks gathered in the Proudly they march away amid the plaudits and the tears of kinsfolk and friends. They'll and glory, t come back in honor most or them, and those | strong, | streets of New streets to see the marching away of ! these national guardsmen, 1,951 | the largest warbound infantry unit that ever marched through the York city. privileges had been extended to the Germany embassy in the transmission of messages, but only after their con- tents had been known. 1 PRICE OF SUGAR ties of sugar needed by the States and allied countries. This committee, acting through the United | train from | over. | bringing | state, | Light Field artillery. SELEGTIVES REACH CAMP I STORN_ Stand in D(;WIIDOIII‘ While Being Registered at Ayer —A over heavy Camp Ayer, Mass., thunder storm Devens yesterday afternoon as a troop Hartford carrying 1,200 men, the vanguard of Connecticut’s 40 per cent. of the draft, pulled in on a railroad siding a mile from the new national army cantonment. Undaunted by the downpour and the incessant lightning, the recruits marched steadily to the cantonment gates, where they had to stand for a considerable time before their pre g liminary physical examination was Many were thoroughly but all took their plight Sept. broke drenched | good naturedly. The other train arrived later, the remainder of the Con- necticut delegation of 4,400. The assignment of these was as follow! From Bridgeport. Danbur: wich, Litchfield, Milford, New Milfordw? Norwalk, Stratford and Waterbury, 1,922 men assigned to the 304th In- fantry regiment. From Ansonia, Groton, Guilford, Merid Killingl Middlefield Plain- field, Norwich and Portland, 786 men assigned to the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the depot brigade. From Farmington, New Britain, 87 the 301st Machine Manchester and men, assigned to Gun battalion. ‘e From Hartford and vicinity 501, assigned to the 303ra Machine Gun battalion. The other points in the 536, assigned to the 302nd Waldek Zbyszko, the wrestler, was discovered among the Maine contin- gent assigned to the 303rd Heavy ar- tillery His identity has beén conre cealed under his real name “Cygani- ewiez,” which he gave when he took out his citizenship papers, and was accepted for the draft army. He was horn in Austria of Polish parents. He | has been spending the summer at Old Orchard. Charles Rogers, an aged man picked up by the police yesterday in an exp | hausted condition, due to hunger and Bernstorff had, at least, i gencral ledge of the work which they conducting. In most instances knowledge would appear to Dbe of a general nature. In a few leads pointing toward his per- I conduct of specific instances of Jnan violations of American neu- ity were not publicly developed. government's purpose in not fol- | g these leads with public dis-ihave meant re was to permit of closer exam- {so_calied on into the ambassado actual s active at icipation in them. i that connection, officials re dephrlinant omciaiadol vol today, Count Von Bernstoril’s | know what the ambassador did mean. f)n in connection with the sei it was i o s o pril, 1916, of important papers|yeierred fo an organization he had documents at the offi »f Wolf¢ | set up althoush some officials were Igel in New York. Von Igel's | inclined to believe that the method 8¢ ctensibly an advertisinig | of influencing was the using of pa- w raided by @ rtment to rake out the chestnuts, bstice agents, who, after a strug than to any direct subornation Jued Von Igel and secized | Ve . in his possessicn. Count Von| At least one of the most active or- storff at once protested and de- anizations flooded Washington with T ded their return. Copies wers | felegrams just prior to the war and je of the document and Von Pern- during the days immediately follow- Lt was told that if he would per-!ing the break in relations. Telegraph ally declare them to he the pr wires were congested with hundreds b of the emb the originals | of thousands of telegrams and mail 11d be restored. | pouches were filled with literature “he affair remains caleulated to influence congressmen to present day. Count vole against any measure looking to off apparently was unv war with Germany How important e official responsibility for the evi- Solhis Geoman Rdiplomatinlae ice of German intriguc which tl behind the scenes in that instance fnfo the American governments not definitely known, but it always |the manner in which the message to hds. The contents of these docu- ! has been umed that Teutonic | Berlin came into the hand of the Fnts have not yet been disclosed | agents were gely responsible for | government. The United States was cmbarrassed the | one of the neutrals by which certain at any rate, has the cartoonist hurled | a game like that, and but for an ex- | cusable error by Arthur Fletcher he “No, this was not one that passed through this government's channels placing the sugar industry in this of communication”, was the smiling w country under license, will control a reply of an official at the state depart- large proportion of tne world's sugar ment when it was suggested that Am- | —_— e o bassador Bernstorff might have added cutpat; Beat Sugar Producers Agree to to his duplicity the irony of using the Gleorss MR OIDY, fliea dfofjtheMood Make It Eight Cents food administration unaer authority of | exposure, was taken té the town home in the ninth, when the Braves threat- President Wilson's proclamation | today for {reatment. ened to pull the game out of the fire In a last desperate attempt. Profeseor James L. Davitt, former- Iy of the High school faculty is now at an aviation training camp in San Antonio, Texas, according to g postal card reecived today by Attorney Hene { ry P. Roche. the time of the scizure that the pa- pers contained revelations of prime importance. The suggestion “‘organization’ president and had the effect of sup- porting the opposition that developed in congr Senator Wadsworth said the state- ment accounts for many messages congressmen received about that time. ‘“When you receive four hundred telegrams in one day, all in the same language and nearly all signed with some German name, it is evident that somebody is putting up some mone: sald the New York senator. We re- ceived thousands of telegrams—every member of the senate I am sure—seek- ing to influence us against war.” Senator Narris disclaimed personal knowledge of use of money by German interests, but added: “T have heard it repeated that both Germany and England used large sums of money in this country. No organization that 1 know of got any German money or any other Kkind. Assuredly no German money was used to influence the members of congress who were against war. The Bern- storff message was sent, you may notice, at a time when President Wil- son was against war.” Secretary Lansing adhered to cetermination not to discuss this lat- est disclosure and refused to reveal S tates e hranirmittortar 1 administration’'s sugar division; Earl message. D. Babst, president of the American % Sugar Refining company, and Wil- liam A. Jamieson of Arbuckle Broth- ers, are the American members of the | it js expected particularly in view of committee. The allicd nations are | (ne government's power to preveént represented by Sir Joseph White-Todd | jmportation by refusing licenses to and James V. Drake, senior, British | producers not agreeing to the uni- SUSACEIN I form price. Details of the sugar American cane sugar represent plan will be worked out tives, it is believed, will take action administration committee milar to that of the beet sugar men of H. A. Douglass, within a week. Most cane producers Howe, Denver; W. H. Hannam, San |already have agreed to a 7 1-4 cent Francisco, 8. H. Love, Salt Lake |price, or its equivalents, but this is City; W. S. Petriken, Denver, S. W.not regarded as final until the deci- Sinsheimer, Huntington Beach, Cal-|sion is unanimous. The objections ifornia, and W. P. Turner, Detroit. of about 10 per cent. of the beet sugar Inclusion of the big Cuban canz | men to the low price were composed ! sugar producing interests in the al-|at a final conference. lied distributing scheme, will bhe dis- The new sugar price will become® cussed in the food administration to- i cffective in the west October 1, when morrow by the Cuban minister, Dr.)the 1917 crop reaches the refineriés, Manuel De Cespedes and two Cuban jand in the east about two weeks sugar growers, Jose Miguel Terrafa |later. The present price of beet sugar and Jos Tgnacio Lazama. to wholesalers is about 8.4 cents a Cubans participation pound. was made that by the ambassador might any one of the different | peace societies that were | that time. Thai may hav but it was learned that | O'LEARY APPROVED | ! sugar will be about eight Publisher of “Bull” Is Proved o rowne. ver win sen o Be Pro-German { heen Washington, D. €., Sept the Beet with esterday i state | ¢ produc in 21 food reached conferer administration ¥ distributing T by a food consisting Detroit; B. C. a unanimous | | e, Ac cents wholesalers at T 14 and the re- a the | of cents a pound, cane basis, il it was stated, would nor- mally be not more than three-quarters of a cent higher, | At the same time the food admin- | istration announced that handicap in every | jonal committee of five the the government of the | named to arrange for United States in its prosecution of the | and distribution of the v: war against Germany price, a New York, Sept. 21.—A nation-wide propaganda, the puipose of which is to discredit and possible way an interna- had been purchase | quanti- | uncleared to Von Bern- illing o in the plan, his is at work in : 'RIGHT FROM NAVAL TRAINING STATION, ' THESE BOYS ARE READY FOR SERVICE this country and this propaganda is supported by a great number of publi- cations, some printed in English and 1 others in various foreign of languages, according to the sworn statement of e Postmaster General Albert Burle- son, filed in the United States District court here yesterday afternoon The afidavit was filed in support of 'PICKAX DRILL NOW PART OF ' 2 YANKEE SOLDIER’S REGULAR TRAINING | ciashe i e it | cluding from the mails the | man publication known as Bull, of | ! which Jeremiah A. O'Leary, head of | the “American Truth Society,” is the directing head. The publishers sought to have the ruling of the post- master general set aside, and Mr. Burléson's statement was filed in| answer to that application. Judge | Charles M. Hough, who heard argu- | ments in the case, sustained the post- | master general’s action. | With his affidavit Postmaster Gen- | eral Burleson filed a photograph of a letter written by O'Leary to Bernard HL. itidder, president of Staats-Zei- | { tung company, on Aug. 9 last, in which O'Leary advised Mr. Ridder to “take heart” and “fight” and to ex- press publicly what O'Leary said he knew to be Mr. Ridder's private | views regarding the war. | “Don’t tell me about the patriotic | stand of your newspaper.” O'Leary | wrote the editor of the Staats-Zeitung, { “when I know that you have adopted | your present policy hecause vou fig- ured Germany was going to win the { war and you said, ‘What's the use of | getting into trouble with the damn | fools over here who think they can { | change the result?’ | In other parts of his letter O'Leary | denounces Attorney General Gregory, | Mayor Mitchel, and vents his wrath on these German Americans, mentioning | by name Herman A. Metz, who have | made it known that now that the | United States is at war, they are with | the Government to the finish. The | men who voted in congress ta back the { President when he called for a declar- ation of war against Germany O'Leary | brands as individuals who will some | day “be cursed in heaven and on | earth before God and man.” 1 In his deposition filed with the Dis- | | lally although it was not denied : tivit that so >ADE AND Learning how to dig trenches is an important part of an American sol- dier's business nowadays, and the men in the numerous camps through- out the country are rapidly becoming experts in the work. This is especial- ly true of the national guardsmen now fully mobilized. The soldiers in the picture are members of an east- crn guard regiment encamped in city park. They are undergoing a severe course of instruction in trench construction, and their officers report | rapid progress in the work. These fine, sturdy lads are part of | a detachment of 1,000 “rookies” sent from the naval training station (\Y‘ Goat Island, San Francisco, to re-en- | force the navy. They have had three | months' training preparatory to serv ice on hoard the hattleships, cruisers, | westorn states and sent there as he) is destroyers, ctc.. of the navy. The| most convenient depot for training. men at the Goat island training sta- | GGoat island is the popular name of tion are those recruited in the far | the training station, but its real title ‘BO‘/S FROM NAVAL TRAINING STATION READY FOR SERVICE trict Court Postmaster General Burle- son recites that Bull obtained second class mail privileges on May 31 of last year, and that these privileges "vere revoked on Aug. 16 of this year, under the provisions of the recently enacted espionage law. a Yerba Buena island The name means “‘good herb” and was an ancient designation of San Francisco also. BE EXPERT TRENCH DIGGERS <