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

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, " PRESIDENT WILSON [SSUES STRICT LAW AGAINST GERMANS Hereafter They Will Not Be Al lowed to Enter the District of Columbia NEITHER WILL THEY BE ABLE T0 ENTER PANAMA Will Not Be Given Privilege to Be Found On. Any Ocean, Bay, River or Other Waters in the United States, With the Exception of Pub- lic Ferries—Must Have Special Per- mission to Travel. V! enemie ington, Nov. 19.—All alien are required to register and Zobtain permits for travel, under a proclamation issued today by Presi- dent Wilson. Enemies also are prohibited ap- proach within one hundred yards of water fronts, docks, railroad ter- minals, or storage houses and are for- s bidden to enter or reside in the Dis- trict of Columbia. The proclamation, issued as a sup- plement to the one declaring a state of wuar with Germany, provides fur- ther that an alien enemy shall not, cept on public ferries, be found on any ocean, bay, river or other wa- ters”. within the United States. They are forbidden to fly in airplanes, bal- Isons or airships, or to enter the Pan- fima canal zone. Only Germans will be affected by’ the proclamation as it specifies “ene- The proclamation orders tion as follows: *“All alien enemies are hereby re- quired to places and in such manner as may be @ fixed by the attorney-i general of the nited States. Restrictions are im- posed on free travel. An alien enemy shall not change his place of abode ar occupation or otherwise travel or move from place to place without full compliance with rny such regulations as the attorney- general of the United States may, =from time to time, make and declare. “Germans will be barred from.em- ployment on all vessels an the ocean or the Great Lakes and even from travellng on private motor boats of their own.” Another section forbids alien ene- mies to approach shipping centers, nor be found within one hundred vards of any canal, wharf, pier or dock used by any vessels engaged in foreign or domestic trade. The attorney-general is given addi- tionnl authority to declare prohibited zoncs about other establishments | whene he deems it advisable to do ! s0. The preclamation does: not inter- with existing regula- orhidding enemies to- live 1 & half-mile of munition plants, | nd other government es- tahHshiments The proclamation to canti- | U'nitea States and to the Phil- Porto Rico and *laska. The for violation will be intern- for the war. Officials explained today that the| zovernment’s action is not intended to ! he vindictive and Germans who may bhe of no harm to the United States .will not be molested. TUnder regula- Hons now being framed by the depart- ment of justice, all Germans may not be reauired to report perlodically to officials. The regulations will be pro- mulgated within a few days. A HOOVER BANQUET W. L. Morgan Lodge Decides to Con- registra- apnlice serve Food and Will Have No ¢pread on Twelfth Anniversary. Patriotically endeavoring to follow sut the instructions of the United States food administration, Washing- ton L. Morgan lodge, Pythias. has agreed to forsake inniversary banquet this year rder to assist in conserving food. This lodge will observe its 12th an- niversary on Tuesday evening, WNovember 20, and the members state that “owing to the necessity of food onservation at the present time and in accordance with the standing of the Knights of Pythias as a patriotic or- sanization, we have decided to dis- pense with the usual banquet.” The grand lodge officers have been invited Knights of its in and the committee has arranged a program of entertainment and has secured State Senator Koppelman of Tartford to deliver the principal ad- Iress of the evening. Cigars and only light refreshments will be served EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The New executive 3ritein reld « to take seerciury people herth ernoon ations for 2oy eral local ations for the of the chamber. register at such times and | MEETS. committee of the Chamber of Commerce mecting at 4 o'clock this af- action on the appli- have filed appli- ——— 1917—TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876. COMBINATION SALES DECLARED ILLEGAL Main Street Store Alleged to Have Restricted Customers | REPORTED TO AUTHORETIES | 1 Federal Administration Decides Mer- chant Cannot “Hold Up” Public and Force Sale of Other (‘/omlllmllflos ‘With Sugar Purchasc. Complaint that the People’s Butter | Store in Simons’ block on Main street | was guilty of ‘“‘combination sales,” by which customers who wanted to buy sugar were forced to spend $1.50 on other articles, has been made to the local authorities and\has been re- ferred to United States District At- torney Thomas J. Spellacy, Robert Scoville, federal food administrator for Connecticut, and George M. Lan- ders, chairman of the food commit- tee of the Connecticut Council of De- fense. An indignant consumer who at- tempted to buy sugar at the People’s Butter Store neported that he was un- able to do so unless he also invested | in other commodities to the extent | of $1.50. This he refused to do and hastened to lay his complaint before the proper persons. As such matters | are taken care of by federal officials he was referred to Messrs. Spellacy, Scoville and Landers. | People Complain of “Hold Ups.” | Hartford, Nov, 19.—Immediate en- | forcement of the ruling of the United | States food administrator against | “combination sales” will begin in | Connecticut. This will be based on | the telegrams recelved Saturday by Robert Scoville, the state food admin- istrator, and which was aimed to reach sugar profiteers. Nearly all | the complaints received by the state administrator last week were from people who felt that they were being | | “held up” by merchants who refused | | to sell them two pounds of sugar, un- | less they bought certain other food- | stuffs. The complaints also were almed at the small dealers who did not seem to come under the federal law in that they do not do a business of $100,000 GERMANY REFUSES T0 DISCUSS PEAGE Proposal of Russia’s New Govern- ment Has Been Turned Down EMPEROR WILLIAM'S VIEWS Will Treat for Peace Only With the Legal Successor to the TImperial Government Or With the Constituent Assembly—Americans Safe, Petrograd, Nov. 18.—Germany has refused to treat for peace with the soldfers’ and workmen's government in response to a recent proposal, ac- cording to the newspapers here, which bublish the news as coming from a well authenticated source. is stated that Emperor William announced in his reply he would treat only with the legal successor to the imperial government or with the con- stituent embly. s connection the Volia Nor- vs it has information that the soldiers’ and workmen’s zovernment, in the event of its failure to receive replies from vember 23 re; peace on its own account, after which, cupy a neutral position. All Are Safe. London, Nov. 19.—Robert P. Skin- | ner, the American consul general has received a telegram, dated Saturday, { from the American consul at Moscow, sayipg that he and the other Amer] cans there are all safe. The city fighting, the message said. Noted Major Killed. London. Nov. 19.—Major deRotschschild, has been killed in Palestine. He was in the same regi- ment as his cousin, the Honorable Neil Primrose, son of the Earl of Rosebery, died recently of wounds received in the fighting. Eveleyn Five Subs Sunk. London, Nov. 19.—Five German submarines were destroyed on Sat- urday. Premier Lloyd George made this announcement today in the house of commons. a year or more and so do not re- quire a license from Washington. So | many were these complaints against | Imerchanls who were selling sugar to | preferred customers who were them- selves willing to buy other articles that the legal experts got busy and read the law up to the point wher they felt that compulsory purcha ing of unasked for foodstuffs might possibly be a wasteful practice and as such forbidden by law. The state food administrator's office has been keeping a careful record of all details of alleged “hold ups” re- ported last week and by authority of [the telegram received Saturday night it will proceed to enforce the law. | “Combination sales” are forbidden ex- | cept that a dealer may sell a pound | of sugar with two pounds of corn { meal. There is no other exception. New Order in Force. The official telegram under date of November 17 is as follows: “On and after .this date all com- | bination sales of food commodities ! are forbidden except as stated below. Sales of one or more other food com- i modities from the seller is regarded as i ‘combination selling’ within meaning | of the ruling. ‘Combination sales frequently result in sale of more foodstuff than particular purchaser would ordinarily buy and therefore determined to be wasteful purchase within meaning of section of food administration act of August 10, 1911 Exception pending further notice and as wheat conservation measures deal- ers may sell sugar in combination with corn meal at a rate of one pound of sugar with two of corn meal. No other combination will bs permitted nor will any other rate than that here stated be allowed. Dealers shall not either sell sugar or corn meal at a price yielding him profit greater than he has normally | enjoyed it on this particular com- modity. A dealer is not required to make combination sale of sugar and corn meal.” NO NEW DRAFT NEWS Basis for Reports That Fifteen Per Cent. Is Going Thursday. At both the first and second dis- trict exemption boards it was stated this morning that no additional in- formation has been received concern- ing the date on which the final 15 per cent. of the first draft will be sent ta Camp Devens and, it was further stated, there is no basis for the re- ports that these men will be sent away on Thursday. The second district board expects to complete its data for the war depart- ment today. On Saturday, the first gistrict filed its complete report, which, in part, showed the following figures: 3,838 Teglstrants on June 5; district quota, 274; 1,770 men called for examination; 749 men passed, 317 rejected; six failed to report and six rejected at Ayer. GENERATL London, Nov. 19.- British commander No DI General Maud, in Mesopotamia, Police Board Forced LEMON CROP IS FINE to Swallow Bilt From for Services at Potatoland. will have to do some tall figuring or else the money appropriated for the police department will not be enough to last the fiscal year. Obliged to pay a bill of over $900 for spectal police work at the city farm on the Tracy property, the board realizes that there is not enough money on hand and in addition to its other expenses a very serious situation has been cre- ated. It was customary whenever special police work was done for other city | departments to have the departments for which the work was done pay for | it. The park commission always paid for police work at Walnut Hiil park and when policemen were detailed to repair the board of public works paid for it. But not so with the farm commit- tee. bill. The board paid the bill and now has given up all hope of being recom- pensed by the farm committee. that board has enough bills to pay without getting into additional ex- pense the poliec board has decided not to press the matter. If the unlooked for expense takes away what money the board has left, the council will be asked to transfer funds from some other department to make good the shortage. There is at present a very pressing need for additions to the regular po- lice force but the board is money to provide for the expense. As it is supernumerary policemen are doing regular police duty. The need of more policemen Is admitted by Chairman P. F. King who says the board cannot afford to hire them, however, and the prospect of secur- ing more men can be given no thought until more money is secured. BANNER POTATO CROP. Superintendent Kibbe at Town Home Makes Enviable Record, Superintendent George F. Kibbe of the New Britain Town Ftrm has made an enviable record in potato raising during the past season and lays claim to having harvested one of the banner crops of this district. On one patch of less than five and one half acres Mr. Kibbe raised 1,250 bushels of potatoes, averaging ap- proximately 230 bushels to the acre. A total of about 1,700 bushels of potatoes w the town farm. Mr. Kibbe that his potatoes cost him somerhing less than $1 per bushel to raise. The entire crop will be used by the inmates at the home died yesterday. and by the city’s outside poor, Municipal Farm Commission The board of police commissioners ! guard strips of the city streets under | 1t decided to set a precedent and | made the police department pay the | As | without | the belligerents by No- rves the right to make | IS¢ €% if the war continues, Russia will oc- INSURANCE RATES 0 UP 10 PER CENT New England Exchange Blames War for New Increase MAY BE ONLY TEMPORARY Schedule in Effect Today, Says Order From Boston—Business Affected by Changed Economic Conditions, Plea—Disappointment to Officials. Mayor George A. Quigley and agents and officers of the New Britain Underwriters Association today re- ceived information from the New England Insurance Exchange stating that effective today all fire insurance rates would be subject to a general advance of 10 per cent. With this in- formation on hahd, dashed are the hopes of the administration which has been working for lowered rates, gone are the hopes of the fire commission- ers who had hoped by the establish- ment of an efficient department to‘in- fluence the insurance companies to lower the rates here, and apparently useless are the efforts of the New Underwriters, who also had hoped to lower rates here. ‘War Is Blamed. As in the case of everything else where the prices have gone soaring, | the excuse given is that the cost of was quiet but there had been much | Palestine | | train; | i the war is the cause. Following is the letter announcing the boost in the rates: Boston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1917. .To All Agents: We are handing you, herewith, promulgation of a general ad- vance in rates of 10 per cent. effective on November 19, and which you have, no doubt, been long expecting. The insurance business is no different from any other, and conditions which demand a gen- eral Increase in prices, affecting all lines of business, because of the increased cost of doing busi- ness, and the increased expense in the way of taxes to maintain the defense of our country, pro- duce the same results with the business of insurance. When expenses and taxes, which must be met from pre- mium rectipts, are raised, the rate which produces the premium receipts must also be raised. It needs no explanation here as to how the cost of doing husi- ness has risen. We all realize this as reflected in all lines work, well as in the cost living. it of s of is hoped that this emer- gency measure may be tempor- ary, as the exchange applies the recently adopted analytic system of rating, throughout its terri- tory, new and revised tariffs will be issued, based on the necessi- ties of the various classes of risks, and of the various locali- ties. ‘We know that we do not need to ask agents to place this advance before their customers in its true light; because it should prove an easy task, especially as almost every other line of business has already anticipated us, but in a much more drastic manner. Very truly yours, C. M. GODDARD, Secretary. LOSS OF WHALER. | Becomes a Wreck in Hurricane, With Loss of Entire Crew. ‘A Brazilian Port, Nov. 19.—The loss of the American whaler Alice Knowles, 302 tons gross, was reported on the arrival here today of the American schooner Fred W. Thurlow. Charles Gilbert, master of the Thur- low, Tescued two Portuguese sailors on September 7. They reported they had been in the water for three days and nishts, holding to part of the life boat. The Alice Knowles was wrecked in | a hurricane on September 3, all the crew including Captain Hegarty, and the captain’s son were washed over- board when the vessel capsized. There was no trace of the whaler or her crew. CASULTY LIST. General Pershing Cables Man Killed by Nov. About One Accident. Washington, 19.—A casualty list cabled by General Pershing to the | war department today shows one man killed by accident and two dead from natural couses. 1t follows: Sergeant Carl G. Shew, tillery, died November 15, mother, ~Mrs. Brooklyn, Private Marcellus S. Cohb, died ovember 10 of monia: mother, Mrs Beakland, Maine. Private Howard I3. Rawlings, quarters compan, died Nov. brone ho pneumonia; friend, Vader, Warner, coast ar- struck by Nellie Shew, infantry, broncho-pneu- Viola Cobb, head- 14 ot (e e~ WEATHER Nartford, Nov. cast for New vicini 19.—Fore- and ued cold tonight. increasing loud :d warmer. o . e Bi Floyd | WOMEN ARE BGUND ! | Four Masked Men Then Cut | Telephone Wires and Ransack House. New Canaan, Nov. 1 masked men in the home of Mr: Feiner here, last night, tied Mrs er and her sister, Mrs. Kaiser, to a bed, cut the telephone wires, ran- sacked the rooms, and upon leaving took silverware, jewelry including some with diamond settings, and $403 in cash which had been drawn from a bank on Saturday to be used in purchase of realty. The women re- leased themselves from the bonds after two hours’ struggle, gave an alarm, and then collapsed from nery- ous strain. They had not recovered today and the police could get little assistance from their narration of the incident. The four men were armod, drove to the house on Ponus’ street, two miles from the village center, broke into the place and departed | without leaving any visible clews. GONDITIONS CHAOTIC BUT FAIRLY QUIET Four Anna Pein- Washington Receives Mes- | sage From Ambassador Francis at Petrograd. Washington, Nov. 19.—Ambassador Francis at Petrograd reéported to the state department in a message dated last ¥Friday and received today that he had recommended that all unat- by women and children leave the city. The ambassador reported condi- tions in the capital chaotic but f: 1y quiet. of government. The embassy dealt | directly with the superthtendent of | passenger service of the railway in arranging for the ren al or the | Americans over the Prans-Silerian ailr rancis said he feared no dam- 1o the hut conditi 5 were so unstable that he deemed it I best to get the Americans out if pos- sible. i Basing their opinion on the state- ment of Lenine, that the success of the Bolsheviki was dependent on world-wide revolutionary of soldiers and workmen, the Russian embassy today predicted | that the followers of the Kerensky | government would win either through a military victory or through the | evident incapacity of the, Bolshevi to make good their promises to their followers. No late news has been received af the embassy but officials declared that the mention of Captain Pavloff, as the commander of troops opposing the Bolsheviki was an encouraging sign. Captain Pavloff is said to be of the staff of the social democratic workmen’s party and the opinion was expressed that this means that one of the strongest factions of the op- position had gone over to the moder- ates. embassy BUYS VALUABLE LAND. Stanley Estate poses of Site for | Grain Elevator. Steps were taken today for the erec- tion of a grain elevator and store- | house in this city, when Frank Pearl ! and Abraham Levine of this city and Abraham Rosenberg of New York, purchased of Judge John H. Kirk i executor of the estate of the late T. A, Stanley, land at the corner of East Main and Wilson streets. 1t is reported that the purchasers will soon commence work on the erection of the proposed building. The deal was consummated through Attorney Irving R. Rachlin and the sale price is said to be between $15,- 080 and $20,000. HEARST GE He Has Purchased the Boston Adver- tiser, But Not the Record. Boston, Nov. 19.—The sale of the Boston Advertiser to William Ran- dolph Hearst was announced today by Charles Sumner Brid, president of the Advertiser Newspaper company. The sale does not’ include the Boston Svening Record, published by the same company. The Advertiser was founded by Samuel Adams in 1748, It has been issued as a daily since 1853. ANOTHER., PASSENGERS ARE SAVED. Washington, Nov. 19.—The steamer Mariposa, which grounded on the rocks in the narrow passage of Sum- ner strait, southeastern Alaska, slipped from its perch and sank last night. The passengers were picked up by steamers and landed at { Wrangel, | cipal witnesses for the defense. tached women and men accompanied * There was no central head ' | fore it | set for next Saturday. | investigation. found to warrant federal] action Hono- 'MOTHER-LOVE TO BE Mrs. DeSaulles Is Placed on | Trial for Killing of Husband. Mineola, N of a jur Judge try Mrs. Bianca De Saulles for.the murder of her divorced husband, John Longer De Saulles, politician and former Yale athlete, was expected to be completed before evening. As Mrs. De Saulles’ counsel has ad- mitted there is no dispute regarding the fact that she shot her former hus- band, there is belief that “irresponsi- bility,” growing out of mother love for her young son ‘Jack,” who, by court order after the divorce trial, was placed in the custody of the fath- | er for five months each year, may be the main plea. Announcement has been made that no attadk would be made on the char- acter of Mr. De Saulles at the trial, which means that evidence taken at private hearings previous to the granting of the divorce will not be revealed. Senor Blanca Vergara-Errazuri: mother of the accused, a member of a distinguished South American fam- ily, is expected to be one of the prin- Nov. 19.—Selection in the supreme court here, Jack De Saulles, the innocent cause of the murder, will not be in the court room. - NO CONNECTION. Between Fire on C. N. One Among Rubbish. Simsbury, Conn., Nov. 19.—Passen- gers on trains over the Central New hx\gl‘md railroad between Hoskins and Tariffville, on the fine to Hart- ford, were being transferred around the gap in the trestle over the jneadows which was caused last night by fire. was not hurned. the wooden trestle on the apparently are intact. workmen were set at night to~ throw timber: wap, and rails work across will be relaid and traffic The fire is thought to have from a gr: tire whch itseli probably ignited Dy engine As there is no bridge watch- the fire crept to the trestle be- was noticed. The small blaze in the freight yard was among some rubbish at a switch and was probably caused by engine spark Railroad men regarded it as insignificant. The two fires had no connection. Grass fires have heen common the past two weeks and one in brush in Granby has spread over considerable I men For Making Seditlous Utterances, Held Under Bail Bridgeport, Nov. 000 was fixed in the city court today in the case of Nicholas Honorucki of New York, who was arrested last night charged with making seditious utterances at a meeting attended mostly by members of the Association of Russian Machinists. Nine other men who were arrested with Hono- rucki because they were unable to show registration cards were held in bail of $2,000 each. A hearing was the federal authorities will begin an If sufficient evidence is rucki will not be tried in the city urt but will be arraigned before a United States court. IFFORD 1S Dl":\D Young Scion of Wealthy ¥amily Dies | On Field of Battle, Albany, Nov. 19.—Malcolm Gifford, Jr., 22, son of a wealthy manufacturer of Hudson, N. Y., who was released from custody on a charge of murder after two juries had disagreed con- cerning his case was killed in action in France November 8. Gifford enlisted in a Canadian mili- tary unit with some fellow students of Williams college about a year ago. Gifford whs arrested in April, 1914, charged with the murder of Frank J. Clute, a chauffeur, in April of the preceding year. Gifford had been at a preparatory school in Massachusetts. The mystery of Clute’s death is un- solved. WAITERS TRAITORS? That is What They Scem to Think Out in Chicago. avid R. Manning presiding, to | Little | E. Trestlc and | The bridge over the river About fifty feet of approach was burned\but the supporting spiles ; Two gangs of | last the as =non as the work is fin- 19.—Bail of $10.- Meanwhile | DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE WITH AUSTRIANS htalians Mow Down T0 BED BY ROBBERS DEFENSE OF AIJ[]USED] Foe Preventing Them ' From Hold ng Point ~ Along the Piave KILLED AND WOUNDED LINE RIVER'S SHORE | \ Enemy, Crossing Piave Above Zencon, Drowned, Bayonetted, Killed or Historic Charge In-" of Home and Hand Captured in spired by Love Country—Bayonets, nades and Knives Used. | Italian Ileadquarters in Northern | Italy, Sunday, Nov. 18, (By the Asso- | ciated Press.)—The Austrians who forced their across the ' Plave i river above Zenson have been thro into the river, drowned, bayonett killed or captured, until now not &n enemy remains on the west bank tt that most threatened point. fight was one of the most tauflu chapters of the war and one of the { most glorious. | Details of the fight have b gathered from eye-witnesses who the fearful 2 night and yesterday, and who stayed until the whole west bank was clea; except for the corpses on the shore and in the foreground. The wounded were that many have not yet received | succor. -~ The enemy had staked everything on getting to the west: bank of the river and the Italiani staked everything on keeping him o | the eastern bank. This netved bot! o desperation. The Austrians madu way, g 80 numerous | Gre- | /] carnage through Friday . the first move Friday in two separste crossings a short distance above Z son. Tirst at the village of Faj and then an old mill called the mill near Follina. During Heavy Mist. to pass. They chose a place. w. sand bar ran in mid-stream giv them a landing and dividing the m:x.l‘n Several circumstances enabled them stream into two small shallow cur<’ rents, reening their movements. carried material for an bridge with uprights and for flooring. | This was about 5 morning in the mi they got across the channel to the west ten feet the men They iron plates o'clock in | th at that early houy second narre bank. The la} waded across 18 water above their waists. In their first surprise rush they swept ‘ four Ttalian machine gun batterfg capturing their guns and d i back into the village Ttalians ‘ Fagare. Here the real | Italians had now fight began, recovered from the surprise and they fought like demons. ltalians using bayonets, hand gre- nades, knives and gelatine. torpedoes. pagt: l It was a hand-to-hand fight through the streets of the town with no plage | for artillery or machine guns, and the, Also there was a heavy mist® improvised as thes The Austrians held part of the lown’ near the bank with the Italians on the land side. throw a line around the town and succeeded in part on one side until the Italian batteries to the north got the range of the line outside the shelter of the streets. This line was the first to be demolished and then the Itallans on this side of the town advanced cheering, hewing their way. The enemy held at first, then began to seek cover and finally broke as the Italians plunged into the water and | sought to get to the sand bar. the machine guns were abandoned. i No Living Austrians, ¥ Most of the enemy fell along/the water's edge and an observer who the gruesome sight says the bodies the river bank and in the water rey wa the tide had gone out. Further up the river at the Sega mill the other crossing has brought, on another bloody fight which lasted until late yesterday when the whole shore was cleared of living Austrians. , But it was lined with dead. The movement here began late Friday night and reached its culmination about 11 o'clock Saturday morning. | Friday night several Austrian bat- talions got across under the cover of darkness. They chose narrow chan=: nels and some of the Austrian officers rode across on horse back. They took a position near the town ceme- ! tery and opened on the Italians during the night with machine gun The Austrians carried two searchlights, which they played on the Italian posi- tion, while the Italians were without searchlights. It was only by the Chicago, Nov. 19.—Investigation of charges that walters employed in Chicago hotels were enemy allen agents of foreign espionage corps eager to glean Information from the men of affairs they served, has been ordered by the Chicago federation of labor. The charges were made by B. M. Parker, representing the waiters’ unjon. The accusation met a denlal from hotel owners. flashes of the Austrian machine guns that the Italians could direct their fire. At daylight yesterday, the enemy still held his position at the cemetery. The situation began to look serious' and for a time it appeared as though the Italiang would have to fall back. (Continued on Eleventh Pumad The Austrians tried to" Al minded him of heaps of seaweed after! |