New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1917, Page 1

‘W« * equal In length to that propounded by > ~ e~ é ‘ (Continued HERALD BEST OF AL( LOCA.) NEWSPAPEFS 'NEW BRITAIN HERALD PRICE THREL CENTS. NEW BRITAI CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1917. —TEN PAGES. ACCUSEL MAY KNQY) FATE BY TONIGHT Mrs. DeSaulles’ Tnd Rapidly Drawing to a Finish PRESENTED T0 QUEEN MARY Mrs. Testifies That She Never Saw Mrs. DeSaulles Cry Mooney, Nurse, While With Her Husband, But Tells of Several Theatrical Parties. Mineoia, Dec. 1.—Tho testimony of medical experts culled by the prose- (ulm‘\ to refute the claim of the de- iensu that Mrs. Blanca DeSaulles was mentally irresponsible on the night of August 8 when she killed her husband and for several days thereafter, was cxpected to take up the entire time cf today's session of Mrs. DeSaulles’ trial. One of these experts, Major Lewls Grego Cole, by declaring yesterday that the X-ray photograph of the defendant's skull showed it to be a perfectly normal one, indicated the line of att the prosecution in its effort tv hreak down the contentions on which Mrs. DeSaulles bases her plea for necquittal A hypothetical question said to be the defense, is being prepared by Dis- trict Attorney Weeks and alienists for the state probably will testify today or Monday. When the defense rested its case vesterday afternoon the prosecution recalled JMrs. Caroline Degener, the sister of John L. DeSaulles and Leonard Thorne the constable who made the arrest, in company with Sheriff Phineas Seaman. Each of these witnesses testified that the acts of Mrs. DeSaulles impressed them as being rational. The possibility of the case being submitted to the jury some time this. evening or tonight seemed heightened by a statement of Justice Manning STUPENDOUS DRIVE T0 RAISE BILLIONS Starte Monday, and Secretary McAdoo Issues Special Pamphlet 0 Al SOLD]EE BROTHERS ! | Appeals to School Children tc Chop Wood, Sift Ashes, Care for Babies, Sell Magazines, All for Government's Good. ‘Washingtan, Dec. 1.—A great drive to make every school child in America buy at least one 25-cent stamp during the first week of the war savings cam- paign, which opens next Monday, was announced today by the National War Savings committee, which made pub- lic a special appeal by Secretary Mc- «Adoo addressed to “Young America.” Savings stamps and certificates, by which it is planned to raise two bil- lian dollars within the next year, will g0 on sale at every post office, Monday morning, and at banks, schools, stores and other institutions later in the week. A special pamphlet has been pre- pared suggesting boys and girls make money by beating carpets, waxing floors, sifting ashes, helping parents, cleaning cellars, washing windows, cleaning silver, cutting woad, varnis! ing chairs, tearing down old chicken- coops and cutting up for firewood, caring for neighbors’ babies, acting as messenger for drug stores, selling magapines, working in stores Satur- days ‘and waiting on tables. Secretary McAdoo’'s message “Young America” said: “We are in the greatest war of the world’s history and we must win the war. We can and shall win, if the boys and girls of America say so, and mean It, and feel it, and llve it, as the boys and girls of ’'76 lived, felt and helped. “The nation needs that sort of boys and girls today. Not to beat our drums, nor to load our muskets, but Clean Cellars, to just prior to the opening of court to- day. He said if it seemed warranted he would continue today's sessions well into the night in an endeavor te finish the trial. There was an additional addition that today would mark the case of the case in a suggestion District At- torney Weeks stated he would make ito the court in order to conclude the taking cof the expert testimony. e tha court will permit it, I.will omit the reading of the first part o? Attorney; ~ Uterhart's hypothetical question as our experts all heard it recited in court yesterday,” said Weeks. “I will ask them to assumo the story of Mrs. DeSaulles’ life up to the date of the tragedy to be true as told in this part of the question put yesterday. The story of the tragedy incorporated in our question, however, will be based on facts as given by our witnesses. Our ques- tion will not 'put it up to our alien~ ists to say whether, in their opinion, the defendant was mentally sound when she fired the revolver shots. They wil! merely be asked to say whether they think she knew ‘the nature and the quality of the act’ and ‘that it was wrong.’ " Weeks said he would require an hour and a half in summing up. Uterhart said he could finish the sum- ming up for the defense in two hours. Justice Manning's charge to the jury is expected to take an addi~ tional two hours. ‘Walter R. Jones, the justice of the . peace who presided at Mrs. DeSaulles’ prenmlnary hearing, was the first wit- ness recalled to the stand today. Attorney Weeks drew from Jones a statement that his observations of Mrs. DeSaulles following the shooting gave him the impression that she was rational. In answer to a question from At~ torney Uterhart however, Jones added ;ed that her calm manner, “the un- usual circumstances” greatly surprised him. George H. Hoffman, keeper of the Mineola jaill, reiterated Jones’ opin- ion regarding Mrs. DeSaulles’ sanity of action and conversation during her imprisonment. Mrs. Anna Mooney, the nurse whom hn L. DeSaulles, Jr. called Boobie, was the next witness. BShe told of Mrs. DeSaulles’ presentation to King George and Queen Mary during a visit to England in 1914, an airplane flight which the defendant took while there, numerous shopping excursions on which the witness said her mistress ibought extravagantly and other de- that her calm manner despfite “the un- of life during the time she was em- ployed by the family. This evidence was evidently intend- ed by the prosecution to offset that glven by other witnesses who said DeSaulles neglected his wife while they were touring in England. Mrs. Mooney, according to the wit- nesses who have, testifled in behalf of the defense, was the nurse retained by DeSaulles through whom he is al- leged to have tried to alienate his son’s affections from his mother. Regarding the automobile accident during a visit to Chile in which Mrs, DeSaulles claims she sustained seri- ous injuries to her head, Mrs. Mooney said a doctor “took three stitches” in Mrs. DeSaulles chin following the ac- cident and that her mistress attended ; @ concert the same night the accident = occurred. “Phe defense maintains Mrs. De- (| the cabin walls. —saving to the point of sacrifice—self- to start a great work which must be done. . It is the part of boys and girls today to give an example of self de- nial and sacrifice, to teach fathers and mothers, to teach the grown people of the nation, that we will have in every young heart the spirit of °'76, when boys led our soldiers into battle and girls fought beside their fathers at The lesson s ‘thrift’ denial of overy thing unnecessary. “If every boy or girl s at home tonight ‘I will fight in this war, T will save every penny and loan it to my government to help save the lives of the big brothers of America, I will try to teach every American I see to ‘do the same’—then twenty million homes, the homes of all America, will be filled with the spirit of '76, the spirit of the drummer boys, of the brave girls of those days.: “Through saving your pennies, nick- els, dimes, quarters and buying thrift stamps and then war savings certifi- cates, you will help your country and its gallant armies to win the war. “I know you will help.” / Principal Collections. ‘Washington, Dec. 1.—Reduction of’ the ten cents a pound tax on colored oleomargarine both as a war measure to increase the production of food fats and as a means of actually ylelding more aggregate revenue, was recom- mended in the annual report of the internal revenue bureau issued today over the name of W. H. Osborne, who has recently been succeeded as com- missioner by Damiel C. Roper. An- other recommendation prompted by war conditions was that the govern- ment should assume control, manufac- ture and use of narcotic drugs needed 50 badly for Red Cross work. The report cited the total internal revenue receipts of the fiscal year ending last June 30 ‘“as the largest in the history of the bureau* but pointed out that record would be broken by the estimated receipts for the current year under the new war tax law of $3,400,000,000. The great- est source of taxation was distilled Lliquors, the production of which showed a marked increase despite the existence of prohibition territory. Referring to the existing tax oleomargarine, the report said: At this time of urgent need of in- creased revenue and of conservation of food supply, especially the fats, made necessary by the war, attention is invited to the wisdom and desira- bility of a revision of the oleomargar- ine law to impose a flat tax of a nom- inal rate on the product, which would not only produce greater revenue, but would glve the masses of the people of this country opportunity to buy this wholesome food product without the additional burden of the heavy poundage tax.” The principal collections last year were as follows: Distilled spirits $187,288,000; fer- mented liquors, $91,094,000; indivia- ual income tax, $180,108,000; corpor- ation income tax, $179,539, 000' man- ufactured tobacco, $102,230,000; mu- nition manufacturers tax now discon- tinued, $27,663,000; miscellaneous spe- clal taxes, $23,371,000. on WAR STAMP TAX. ‘Washington, Dee. 1—The war stamp taxes counted upon by treasury offi- cials to produce $100,000,000 an- nually as part of the great revenue measure enacted by congre: last On Third Page). October became effective today. SOUTH CHURCH AT T0TH MILESTON Congregational Society Prominent in Growth of New Britain SPECIAL PROGRAM SUNDAY Two Day Observance Includes Anni- versary Sermon By Rev. Dr. George rmaauon W. C. Hill—Henry C. Bowers Oldest Living Member. Beginning as lan off-shoot from the Tirst church and now being the larg- est church of its denomination in the city, the South Congregational church will tomorrow begin a two days’ celebration of the 75th anniversary of its organization. Because of the war a modest program will be carried out. It was at drst planned by the standing REV. DR. GEORGE W. C. HILL. T committee to arrange an elaborate program and to invite all the former pastors back to help celebrate the happy event. but this plan was aban- doned. The regular morning worship will be held at the church tomorrow and appropriate music for the occasion has been arranged by the organist, Pro- fessor Joseph C. Beebe. An anniver- sary sermon will be delivered by the pastor, Rev. Dr. George W. C. Hill on “The Root and the Tre Vesper will be held at 4:30 o'clock in the ternoon which will be interesting and inspiring. A program of old anthems and hymns sung 50 years ago will be given by the church and choir. On Wednesday afternoon Professor /Beebe, assisted by Herbert E. An- derson on the violin, will give an an- niversary organ recital. On Wednes- day evening the anniversary reception for the members and friends of all the English speaking churches of the city will take place. The reception will be held from 7:30 until 8 o’clock. At 8:30 o’clock, fellowship exercises will be held at which greetings will be giv- en by the ministers of the various churches. The pastors from the First church, Stanley Memorial church, First Baptist church, St. Mark’s Epis- copal church and Trinity Methodist church have been invited to deliver short addresses. Upon the completion of the program an inspection of the church will be in order. There will be an exhibition in the Chinese school room of interestng documents, books and pictures con- nected with the history of the church. A complete collection of old anthems and hymn books will be displayed. The extensive repairs, which have just been cormpleted under the direction of the society committee assisted by H. D. Clifford, will be examined. Several anniversary gifts have al. ready been announced including new offering plates, the donation of Dea- con S. Talcott and beautiful Bible markers, the gift of Willlam Wien- gartner. A neat memorial folder with a pic- ture of the South church and a history of its growth, containing eight pages, | will be distributed to the members at the church tomorrow morning. Society Organized May 9, 1842. The South church is an outgrowth history was situated where the Smal- ley Park is today. Desiring to have a place of worship in the southern part of the oity, dissatisfied with the theological teachings and urged on by the war spirit which prevailed at the time, a body of prominent men of the church met on May 9, 1842, organized the South Congregational society. On June 28 of the same year it was voted to call a meeting of the plete arrangements for the formation of tho new church. On July 5 of the same vear the church was fully organized and on July 9 the first business meeting was held. Among the men prominent in forming the new church were Henry Stanley, | Henry North, L. Nathan Peck and Oliver Stanley. Rev. Samuel A. Rockwell was called as the first minister and the ordination was a momentous occasion. Horace Bushnell, who was nationally known for his CCongregationalism, de- lMvered the sermon. Rev. Mr. Rock- well remained at the head of the church for fifteen and one-half yea Starting with a membership of (Continued On Kifth Page). of the First church, which in its early | and | Hartford South assoclation to com-. WITNESSES TELL OF MEANS’ TROUBLE Was in Financial Straits in De- ! cember, 1916, Banker Testilies |SEGURED LOAN OF $30,000 State Contends That Man Accused of Murder Killed Widow So He Would Be Able to Secure a Big Sum of Money from Estate. Cancord, N. C.,, Dec. l.—Prospects at the opening of the day’s session of the trial of Gaston B. Means were that the introduction of evidence would last for another week if the defense placed him on the stand to explain his version of the death of Mrs. Maude A. King. The waman met death near { here last August while on a visit to relatives of Means, her business agent. The state, in seeking to prove that Means shot and killed the wealthy widow, presumably for her money, has relied on circumstantial evidence, { endeavoring to show that it would have been physically impossible for ]the woman to have shot herself as Means asserted at the coroner’s in- quest. Through New York and Chi- cago witnesses, Means’ alleged ma- chinations of his emptoyer’s financial affairs have been divulged. As the first witness today, the state called Edward F. Mack, vice-president of the Central Trust company of Ill- nois, who testified that on Dec. 13, 1916, Gaston B. Means applied to him for a loan of $30,000, offering $38,000 of securities as collateral. The loan was negotiated, and a check for $30,000, less interest, was given to Means. The check 'was identified by the witness. The securities put' up as collateral for the laan were part of those which Means had taken a few days earlier from the Merchants’ Loan and Trust company when, according to previous evidence, the trust of $125,000 created by Mrs. King in favor of Mrs. Robin- son had been revoked. At maturity of the note in June, 1917, Mack testified, Means asked for a renewal, which was declined. Means asked the bank to sell the collateral securities and pay the note, which the bank did, paying Means the surplus. WOMAN OF MYSTERY HOSPITAL PATIEN' | Will Not Reveal Tdentity and Atiempts to Jump From Window in the Night, A strange woman is a patient at the New Britain General hospital where her actions are indicative that she is mentally unbalanced. Going into a store at 510. Main street yester- day afternoon, she complained of was summoned. At the police station the woman refused to say anything concerning herself, and when re- moved to the hospital she continuea her reticency. She made an ineffoc- tual attempt to escape during the night by jumping from a window but her act was prevented by attendants. ANGELINA B. THOMSON DIES AT AGE OF 87 Lake Street Woman One of Oldest Members of First Church. Mrs. Angelna Blackwell Thomson. aged 87, dled this morning at hor home, 104 Lake street, of heart dis- ease. Mrs. Thomson was Dborn in Avon, May 8, 1830. Her hushand | died 30 years ago in New Britain. She is survived by three sons, James Blackwell Thomson of 10 Forest street, William Blackwell Thomson of Hartford and Millard Blackwell Thomson of Lynn, Mass., and six grandchildren, Harold, Willlam and Kenneth Sloper of New Britain, Leon Emery and Sanford Knatt and i Georgla Knatt Thomson of Hartford. est members of the First church and for many years was an active member. She was also a charter member of the Woman's club. The funeral will be held from her home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Henry W. Maier will officiate and burial will be in Fairview cemetery. SOLDIERS ARE ARRESTED. Mexico City, Dec. 1.—The United States has been informed officially that two Amerlcan soldiers have been arrested at Juarcz. They will be returned upon request by tho American government through proper channels. N WEATHEX lartford, Bee. t.—Nor cast for New Britain and vi- cinity: Falr, colder, tonight and Sunday. e being ill and the police ambulancs |, Mrs. Thomson was one of the old- | ELEGTRIC COMPANY INCREASES RATES Hali Cent Kilowatt on Meters, 10 Per Cent. on Flat Rate SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE JAN. 1| Announcement of Commecticut Light and Power Co. Declares Advance Is Necessitated By Higher Cost of Coal, TLabor and Other Factors. Explaining that it has been forced by the increase in the cost of fuel and other causes, the local office of the Connecticut Light and Power com- pany announced today a raise in the rates to its consumers of 1-2 cent per kilowatt for metered customers and 10 per cent. for flat rate customers. The increase of rates has been made by the local officials only after it has been found to be the sole practical manner of combatting the steadily in- creasing cost of production, it is claimed. Throughout Connecticut every local office has been forced to resort, to this advance and the local officials are the last ones to put the increase in effect, they say. The increase is ef- fective’January 1, 1918. Company’s Announcement. The announcement of the company Is as follows: For several months it has seemed inevitable that the com- pany would be compelled to make an advance in its rates for electric service to meet the constantly in- creasing cost of operation. The company is one of the last of the electric companies in the state to make an increase in its rates and has only taken this ac- tion after most careful investiga- tion. The many economies put in- to effect have failed to offset the constantly increasing costs of operation. The steady > in the cost of coal, labor and all other materials entering into the pro- duction of electric current, has made it absolutely necessary for the company to inc its rates. The company has heretofore made a number of reductions in rates and it is a matter of regret that it is compelled now to tem- porarily depart from its policy of reducing the cost of service to the communit THE HOUSING PROBLEM GERMANS SMAS GURTIS CHALLENGES MAYOR TO SHOWDOWN | Offers to Place Evidence Be- fore Committee of Bankers. Aldgrman O. F. Curtis continued his attack on the municipal potato venture today by issuing a statement in reply to what he considered criti- cism in yesterday's Herald. He goes a step further and offers to place his evidence hefore a committee com- posed of A. J. Sloper, W. E. Attwood and J. C. Loomis, three bankers, and challenges Mayor Quigley to accept the proposition. Mr. Curtis’ letter follows: “New Britain, Conn., “December 1, 1917, “Editor of The New Britain Herald: “Will you- please, as a matter of fairness for which you are noted, ai- low the following statement to appe:r in your paper today on the same page as a partial reply to an article appearing.in yesterday’s issue headed “Accounts in good shape, Energy of Farm Committee's critics wasted, ,Comptroller’s statement indicates.” "That the Comptroller kept the books of the Farm Committee and they wers: all right, etc. Comptroller Curtis in this morning’s Courant corrects this assertion. He says go far as his, that is the City Comptroller's books &go, they are all right, that they only record the transactions going through his office. He says he did not keep the Committee’s books and admits that they might be mixed up and ne dia not know of it. Further, the in- accuracies I brought up at the Coun- cil meeting Wednesday evening as their typewritten report to the Com- mon Council, and in the printed copies of the Common Council minutes show (these copies being before the Mayor, Council and Committee members pres- ent, and my statement being fol- lowed by them with the report before them) the Mayor and other members did not make any correction or ques- tion my statements, it seems as though there must be some truth in them. Ex-Senator Landers stated on the floor of the Council Chamber that | he had heard enough and did not | doubt, as 1 stated, Bridgeport, Particularly, Having Treuble to Find Homes for Workers. New York, Dec. 1.—Appointment of a housing administration for workers with reference to time housing problems, the saume position which Herbert C. Hoover holds with refer- ence to food conservation, is recom- mended to President Wilson in a let- ter, which is was announced today, has been forwarded to him by the na- tional housing association. Appropri- ation of government funds to house | munition workers is urged as a war time nece: i Seventy-one American cities suffer from house shortage the associations’ records indicate, making the problem a national one. Birdgeport, Conn., and Sparrows Point, Md., are particularly mentioned in this connection. Regarding the situation at Bridge- port the letter sa: “Thirty to forty thousand pebple were added to the population in a few months. Today not another man can he accommodat- ed. On January 1, a new munition plant is to be opened for which the government has provided '$2,500,000 | to house the machinery. Unless hous- ing is provided for the men that plant | cannot open except by taking men out of the sting plants already working war | IN SERIOUS STATE, below capacity. “Public spirited men of Bridgeport have for the last three years grappled with the situation. Local capital has provided one million dollars for the housing of the workers and 400 fam- ilies have been housed in buildings of a good type. The people of Bridge- port stand equipped and ready to pro- vide all the housing accommodations the city needs if the necessary money can be secured—but the funds are not forthcoming. The available local capital is needed for the development cf industry. ormation to the report’s incor- ! rctness. Judge Gaffney was present and did not question my statement The Mavyor, up to today, has not point- that I had further | HERALD “ADS” MEAN, BETTER BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1876. H BRITISH; TEAR GAP IN BYNG'S LINE Tommies Blow Up Numbei; i of Guns to Prevent Their Capture by the EnemyLa“f/ 4,000 Britishers Prisoners. | THREE KINGS CONFER. | g ON NEUTRALITY M. Maklakoff, Russian Ambassador to France, Is Dismissed from His Post. Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki Leader, for Participating in Inters Allied uou by Conference—I'rench Their Lines Intact. Berlin, Via London, Dec. Germans, yesterday, captured = 4,00 British and several batterfes in, the, Cambrai region, the war office’ g nounces. British Headquarters in Frane Dec. 1.—So far as could be leprni this morning, no British guns |wWere} captured by the Germans. WA The German casualties yesterdagi were exceedingly large. The Brith probably lost a considerable numbe; of men. i There is no concealing the fact thas) the enemy gave the British an uncoms4 fortable hour or two yesterday, b the situation this morning is not on: to cause particular uneasiness. Some scattered British in the tront line may have fallen. into the Gers mans’ hands, but most tropps are ¢ poarted to have been withdrawn safely Some ground has been lost, but the German plan has been frustrated. Fighting is still proceeding today, The British are continuing thef# counter-attacks. & British Headquarters . in Fra Dec. 1.—(By the Associated Press) In their operations in the Cambra region, yesterday, the Germans began' a turning movement, but the British/) were able to pull back most of theh troops and guns at the first attack an save them from being caught. ~Th, British blew up a certain number of, guns. Paris Statement. Paris, Dec. 1.—The Germans marla a violent attack last night on Verdun front, the war office reports. Two e forts were defeated by the Frenel | Who, after a severe engagement, hel their lines intact ed out any one specific misstatement. Generalities, broad denials and charges of trivialities, technicalities, want of broadnrindedness and patriot- ism and playing politics seems to be h stock of defense or trade when any opposition to his methods and plans is made. I wish to state that the Mayor, Mr, Tallard (and by the way, Mr. Tallard seems to have dropped out of the Committee's de- liberations at present) and Mr. Ross- berg have been the managers and moving spirit of the potato venture. Other members have loyally support- ed them, believing that it was their duty to stand by the actions of the Committee and see the project through. Mr. Landers, Judge Gaff- ney, Mr. Ailford and Mr. Parsons have not been the active members of the committee and were only par- tially aware of what was done and going on at times. As to my state- ments to the Common Council I stand by them as correct and as to the re- ported cost of all their potatoes was wrong by $476.64 as shown by their report, that a bill of $117.60 shown paid had not gone through the offi- ciol channels and that it should not appear as a credit and debit both, also that a cultivator was shown among their assets and nothing shown in ,their report as to how it was se- cured or paid for. I am willing to put the evidence before a Committee of Hon. A. J. Sloper, Hon. Willlam E. Attwood ana J. C. Loomis for them to pass upon the correctness of my statement. If His Honor, the Mayor, thinks he can disprove my statements let him accept my propo- sition. As to other facts I have made public, I am ready to back them up with what I consider proof and also make public if nece “Think of America.” London, Dec. 1.—The Saxon' finance minister, during the budget debnle the Saxon diet, according to a dess patch to the Times from Amsterda said that Germany must demand large indemnity without bothering which of our adversaries should n)t "] it, adding: “Let him only, think, of Amerlcn \mlmmdflr Leaves. Petrograd, Nov. 30.—M. Maklakoft) the Russian ambassador to Franee has been declared dismissed from post by Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevi commissary for foreign affairs. Thj action was taken because of the bassador's participation in the inters Allied conference, which ig considersd a state offence entailing a’heavy pen alty. Ambassador Maklakoff who was ap pointed by the Kerensky government,'. arrived in Paris on Nov. 7, but up to this time has not presented his letters to the French government, as he has ! been walting toi see what happens {n Russia. He sits in the inter-Alll conference by special invitation J&‘ as an un-official observer. M. Maklakoff in interviews durult the past month has expressed his ap position to the Bolsheviki. - On Nev. 26 ‘he predicted the fall of the Mufi' malists within a short time. Three Kings Confer. Christiania, Nov. 30,—The kings Norway, Denmark and Sweden their conference here, says an officta i statement, reached an agreement lm the following points: First—By reason of the hArmony conclusive | gxisting between the three countries; however long the war may last an§ sary other transactions in other oity | whatever form it may take the cordial departments nt as creditable as they | refations and mutual confidence of the ought to be. “Respecttully, “O. F, CURTIS.” three kingdomi spall be maintained. Second—In cbnformity with the declarations and policies of the thrs countries it is the full intention TEUTONS DISMISSED? their governments each for itself %O obey the utmost degree of neulral!ty - toward all belligerent powers. About 35 Austrians and Germens Re- -ciprocally to aid one Third—The desire is expressed another wi merchandise during the present ai DESPISED PENNY. = ported Discharged Today by Bristol Brass Co. Because of Sentiments, culties and special representatives are to meet immediately to facilitate the’ exchange of merchandise. / At the meeting there was discus- sion in reference to legislation deaj- ing with the relations of foreigners and Scandinavian subjects. An agree- ment also was reached regarding the continuation of preparatory measurgs toward safeguarding the common in- terests of neutrals during and after. the war. The desirability of co-oper ation between the three countries wag. expressed as at previous conferences, Now Everyone Wants the Copper, and Its Coinage Leaps. Philadelphia, Dec. 1.—With an un- precedented demand for one cent pleces, the coinage of the Philadelphia mint in November was the largest of any single month In its history. In the eleven months of the present year 16,288,108 more pennies were colned { than during the twelve months of 1916. In Novenber, 44,748,627 one cent pleces were coined, making a total for the eleven months of the i yvenr of 148,121,785 places. The total colnage last month was | 69,640,445 pleces, of a value of $3,- 731,077, which eclipses all former rec- ords. It was unofficially reported this afternoon that about 35 employes of the Bristol Brass Co., who were known to be of either German or Austrian nativity with corresponding sentiments, were discharged when the factory closed for the week this noon. It is said that these men were given thelr wages in full and advised that their services would be no longer re- quired. It was Impossible to verify this re- port this afternoon as the office of the faotory in Forestville was closed ana the proper officlals could not be located by telephone. Reichstag Talk. Amsterdam, Dec. 1.—During yester-" day's sitting of the Reichstag main (Continued On Third Page).