New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1917, Page 13

OCTOBER 5, 1917. AIRPLANES NOW BEING PREPARED 20,000 of Them Will Lead Our Soldiers at Front ‘Washington, Oct. 5.—Contracts have been let by the War Department for the construction of 20,000 air- planes for use in the war against Germany. This is practically the ‘Wwhole number of airplanes for which provision was made in the $640,000,- 000 aviation bill. One-fourth, or about 5,000, of these will be built abroad, the other 15,000 being built in this country. Aviators are being trained in 24 fly- ing schools and in a number of ground &chools. Their final training will be on foreign soil. The plan of the army contemplate the delivery of motors, planes, equipment and men so that all may be avallable as rapidly as one is ready for the other. A great number of American avia- tors have been sent abroad, where they are now undergoing intensive training behind several of the battle fronts. a3More than 30 allied air experts are in this country, composing what may be called an international aviation gener- al staff, in connection with the devel- opment of America's great military aerial force. When the first Ameri- can military airplane is sent to Eu- rope, and Secretary Baker says this will be done within reasonable time, it will be of American manufacture from the tip of its propellers to the engine, machine gun and camera. These are some of the facts that stand out In a statement issued by Secretary of War Baker summarizing, as far as it can without giving away military secrets, the progress thus far made with the aviation program adopted under the $640,000,000 appro- priation. The Secretary’s statement followst To Spend $640,000,060 Appropriation. “The development of the ‘Liberty Motor’ is being followed by highly satistactory progress in the equipment | of the aerial branch of the army and the training of its aviators. While it is inexpedient to impart information of military value or to detail strategic plans, it is felt that a partial an- nouncement may be made of the prog- ress of the aviation program. This statement is to meet numerous re- quests of the press and to convey to the country an authentic report of the work of the aviation section. The aviation situation today may be sum- marized as follows: “Contracts have been let and work Is in progress on practically the en- tire range of training machines, light high-speed fighting machines, and powerful battle and bombing planes of the heaviest design . Our - contracts call for an ample number of training machines, and embrace as well giant battle planes capable of the works of the Caproni, the Handley, Page and S similar types. “Every measure of insurance has been taken that the American forces In France shall be amply equipped with aircraft. OH, RATS! The Town of Somerville Has Engaged Rat-Catcher to Kill Them. Somerville, Oct. 5.—An invasion of rats which have made thelr headquar- Ters on the city dump, has assumed such alarming proportions that the city has taken official steps looking toward their extermination. House- holders in the vicinity who feared that with the advent of cold weather the rodents would enter their homes | appealed to the mayor, who author- | 1zed the appointment' of a profession- | nl rat-exterminator. Poisoned fish | will be scattered about the dump and | !boys will be put on guard to keep away children, dogs and cats. HE PLEADED GUILTY. Hartford Man Accused of Check Pass- ing Given Six Months. Wallingford, Oct. 5.—Frederick H. . O'Neil of Hartford, who was arrested in Bridgeport and brought here yes- terday to face a charge of issuing fraudulent checks, pleaded guilty in the borough oourt today to a charge of obtaining money under false pre- tenses and was sentenced to six months in jail. During the trial officers from West Hlaven were in the court room seek- Ing to apprehend the prisoner on charges of issuing fraudulent checks in that place. CLEANING UP. Benate Hustling to Wind Up All Busi- ness by Tomorrow. ¥ Washington, Oct. 5.—The senate met early today for the final clean-up | of the odds and ends of legislation and other matters awaliting disposi- tion before the end of the present extraordinary session of congress which is expected tomorrow. Senator LaFollette is understood to .pe awaiting an opportunity to address he senate in reply to oritics who de- mand his expulsion. TO FIX WOOSTER STREET. The steam shovel which has been wsed In excavating for the straight- ming of Laeke street is to be moved jomorrow. to Wooster street where nighway repairs are to be made. Work on Lake street will be complet- »d soon and the concrete mixing ma- thine is already installed preparatory lo laying the curbing and sidewalks which will complete the work of siiminating the dangerous crossing at the junction of Washington street. PROMPT AGREEMENT, ‘Washington, Oct. 5.—Senate and i{house conferees on the administra- llon soldiers and sailors’ {insurance bill, passed by the senate last night without a dissenting vote, today be- gan the task of adjusting their dif- rerences, with prospect of reaching a prompt agreement. FOR POLICE JOB Philadelphia Scandal Brings Out | An Interesting Fact Philadelphia, Oct. .—President Judge Charles L. Brown of the Mu- | nicipal court, where Mayor Thomas B. Smith and eight other men are hav- ing a hearing on the charge of con- spiracy to murder, in connection with the killing of a policeman by alleged } New York gangsters in the fifth ward political feud yesterday publicly an- nounced from the bench that Lieut. David B. Bennett, in command of the police in that ward, is using an as- sumed name. Until the police commander proved that he had legally changed his name, the court declared, the ; Would be held in $10,000 bail, pending the outcome of the hearing, under the name of “‘Steinberg, alias Bennett.” The court’s announcement came at | the end of a day of much additional testimony tending to show that the police of the Fifth Ward had been illegally used to swing the nomina- tion of Isaac Deutsch, Mayor Smith’s candidate for councils. Counsel for Bennett protested against the action of the court in bringing discredit on a defendant who had not yet been tried, and to this the judge replied: reason: “I, in my official career on this bench and other courts where- in I sit, am called upon to sit in juds- ment upon men who are Hebrews of the lowest type in the community, who adopt Irish names and are charged with offenses than an Irishman never in God’s world could be guilty of.” Sixteen policemen and three firemen testified today that they had been transferred te other districts because they were supporters of James A. Carey, the present member of Coun- cils and Deutsch’s opponent in the primaries. Detectives sent into the ward by Mayor Smith to investigate conditions admitted on the stand that they re- ported they found things bad; that people were clubbed and that police- men were taking an active part in Deutsch’s favor. Mayor Smith was subpoenaed to bring these reports into court, and ar- gument will be had on their admis- sions as evidence when they are pro- duced. The Police Department, in a court action today, failed to obtain posses- sion of Samuel G. Maloney, Philadel- phia, head of the Val O’Farrell Detec- tive Agency, which furnished New York men for election work in the Fifth ward. Maloney is under parole in the cus- tody of the District Attorney, charged with conspiracy to murder. The Dis- trict Attorney, in refusing to surren- der him to the police, told the court the Police Department is virtually on trial and that he did not want Ma- loney, who is one of the principal wit- nesses of the Commonwealth, terror- ized. MUTINY CHARGE. Raised Disturbance Workhouse in Washington. Washington, Oct. 5.—Militants of the Woman’s Party serving time in the District of Columbia Workhouse for demonstrations before the White House were charged yesterday with mutiny as a result of their rough-and- tumble fight with guards and negro women prisoners. The development furnishes a new phase for the inves- tigation of conditions at the work- house undertakeh by the Board of Charities on complaints of the mili- tants. The charge of mutinous conduct is made in a report by Alonzo Tweedale, auditor, in charge of the workhouse while the superintendent is suspended pending outcome of the inquiry. A long story is told by the report of how the eighteen suifragists attacked the acting superintendent, the prison ma- tron and three male guards who had been called to the rescue when the of- ficers sought to remove one of their number, Mrs. Margaret Johns, for medical treatment at the Washington Asylum Hospital. It tells of negro women of the pris- on kitchen force rallying to the aid of their bass, the matron, when she was threatened with a blow on the head with a club, of a general wild scramble about the workhouse corri- dors and yard, and eventually of Mrs. Johns’ departure for the hospital in a doctor’s automobile after she and her guards had been much mauled and hauled about. The acting super- intendent emphasizes the statement that extreme forbearance was shown the prisoners, the male guards obey- ing orders to handle them with every possible consideration in spite of all that happened. Miss Alice Paul, head of the wom- en’s party, made a statement denying many of Mr. Tweedale's statements and declaring that the women inter- fered because they were not told where Mrs. Johns was to be taken and feared that she was to be placed in confinement on bread and water. She also sald Mrs. Johns was not removed for proper medical treatment when she really was ill and that she had recovered when the authorities de- s in ASSUMED ALLAS | lieutenant \ i “I only make that remark for this cided to take her to the haspital. The workhouse is a big, unbarred structure on a farm near Washing- ton. Its open doors made it easy for the suffragists, when they started on the warpath, to give their custodians a lively time. ‘AUTOMOBILE HEARINGS. Following is the disposition of the several local automobile cases heard by Automobile Commissioner Rob- bins Stoeckle vesterday: Willlam Tee, Hartford, and Otto Macholtz, collision, case dropped: Henry Sefter, reckless driving, licenses suspended for one year; Eugene F. Leach, reck- less driving and speeding, license re- turned: H. E. Splettstoeszer, failure to stop after accident. decision re- served, and Joseph Pihill, reckiess driving, licenses suspended for thirty days, FOR AVIATION SERVICE. | Airplane Repairers and Engine Me- | chanics Wanted. . New York, Oct. 5.—The Bureau of ! Navigation, Navy Department has just authorized the enlistments of tie fol- lowing named: Landsmen for quartermaste: tion). These men should have experience in either cabinet work for the repairing of pontoons, or experi- | ‘ dling ence in fabric work for the repairing of wings, etc. These men to be given no promise of actual fiying, but are to bed rilled in forming crews, in han- and repairing aircraft. Some may be given flying, but the primary idea is handling and repairing. Trans- fer thess m to Pensacola where they will be given further instruction, and after examination may be rated quartermaster second class (aviation). After serving one vear as quarter- master second class (aviation) these I v o ° e Pron of ©o Delivered to 10U or an Initial No musical instrument ever made has met with such immediate and unbounded success as the Aeolian-Vocalion. cal world were waiting for just such a phonograph—nearer to nature in its reproductions, less stridency in its tone, more real beauty in its looks. And something else, which had not been anticipated, a phono- graph which could be used when desired, as a real musicai instrument for the expression of each one’s instinctive musical emotions, May we have the pleasure of an interview 164 MAIN ST. The public and the musi- men may be promoted to quartermas- ter first class (aviation). (b.) Lands men for machinist's mate (aviation). These men should be drilled in forming crews, in han- experience; and Wwill be transferred to Pensaloca to be drilled in forming crews in handling and repairing air- craft. ‘Some may be given flying, but the primary idea is handling and re- pairing. In the case of men enlisting as landsmen for machinist’'s mate (aviation if they can qualify by examination at Pensacola, they may be immediately rated machinist's mate second class (aviation). After serving one year as second class (aviation) these men may be promot- ed to first class (aviation), provided they are qualified to pass the neces- sary examination. (b.) Landsmen machinist’s mate (motor-boat). These men should have experience in the opera- tion and repair of gas engines. They are primarily intended for duty on for submarine chasers, but no promise this duty shall be made. Transfer enlisted to The Receiving Ship Philadelphia for further detail. It intended to form classes from amo these men to go to Columbia Uni sity for further instruction; but it do not necessarily follow that all m enlisted in this rating shall be sént Columbia, as other classes may started elsewhere. Aage limit for the above ratings, to 85. ograp/y dczy | instrument— beautiful to look at and beautiful to hear. Its fine lines, its deli- cate proportions, its rich case-woods, no longer reflect the conventional art of the cabinet designer. Instead, it is the unmistakable produc-, tion of the artist and the atelier. -« Its tone is no longer typical of the phonograph. Gone s the effect of stridency hitherto apparently inseparable from that instrument. Instead, this great, new phonograph holds a mirror to nature itself. Natural tones—vocal and instrumental— come from it, now rich and deep and strong, now soft and sweet and infinitely delicate. \ V4 And above all, the phonograph of today is no longer simply a machine of stereotyped performance. Instead it has become an instrument of personal musical expression. Playing auto- rga.tlcally like other phonographs when desired, it offers in ad- dition, the priceless privilege of self-expression in music which only those who play, or sing, have hitherto enjoyed. | L The home of the “Phonograph of Today”, which is now available to everyone, is at Aeolian Hall. famous throughout the ehtire country, is the Aeolian-Vocalion. Its name, already Let no one think that the Aeolian-Vocalion, because of its distin- guished superiority, costs more than other phonographs of relatively com- parable styles. For while its magnificent Art Styles cost more than phono- . graphs ever have before—because there never have been phonographs iike them before—prices of Aecolian-Vocalions in regular or conventional cases, are the same as phonographs of other make, Priced from $35 to $2000 Reed JTewelry Co. NEW BRITAIN, CONN,