New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1917, Page 5

At Procent Time Nearly Whole| \ World Is i Conffict At war with Garmany or her alliey: '/ Berbin, Russia, Frange, Great Britain, ¥ t’fi(lfllunqu. Japan, Belgium, Italy, ./Ban Marino, Portugal, Roumania, vflruu. Cuba, Panama, Siam, Liberla, Chins and United States. Diplomatic relations broken with A Brasil, Bol{vi&. Haiti, Honduras and Declarations of war made: Austria vs. Belgium,, August 31914, Austtia vs. Montenegro, ‘914, Augtria vs. Russia, August .6, 1914, ) % vs. Serbis, July 28, 1914. a vs. Berbia, October 14, 1917, Chipa va. Austris, August 14, 1917. anl ve. Germaay, April 7, 1917. . April 7, 1917, l’uu-n Austria, August 12, 1914. 28, August 9, 3, Germany vs. France, August 2014, i . Germeny vs. Portugal, March 8 %my vs. Rusala, August 1, 1914. Great Britain vs. Bulgaria, chber s, 1915, ; Great: Britain ‘vs. Austria Au'un *h. 1914, , Augyst Great l. 1914, Great Britain vs. Turkey. November l’“. . Greecs (provisional government) vs. Bugarie, Nuvmher as, 1918. Gresce (provisio nment vs. ~November !l, 1916, . @resce’ va. Bulgaria, July 2, 1917. Giresce vs. Germany, July 2, 1917. ¥ va. Austria, August 31, 1915, ‘ Bulgaria, October 19, 1914. » August 38, 1918, nv. August 23, Ve, Gt 33, 'nhm-m ve. merh,, August 10, ilu Panamsa va. w April 7, 1.1.1. *‘snguh va. Austria, -‘August 37, Serbia vs. ‘l‘l!rkfl. an4. | Slam v, oornuy, July 31, 1917. ¥o. Germany, July 21, 1917. W s Alties;, November 23, 29, December 2, ¥s. Rumania, Aulunt m m wvs. Germany, April 6, aar e . Mapila, Dec. 37 (Correspondence).— of the !m.l:::inl eur- ‘system 15 ed for in & cur- )i passed by the Philippine !!nn and which seems 'cértaln of Dy the Senate. It must be the ‘President for final proposes to reduce the of the builion ‘in’Philippine ¥ to thé standard of the United chu avojding the danger mepaced the Islands recently 'when the valus of the actual silver in Rhe peso reached 30 per cent. above the nominal value whils the buillon value of subsidiary silver coins' was ’ dangerously near the face value. 'BRITISH NAVY, London, Dec. 27 (Corresponpdence)— the or- branch of under - the title of the “Wom Royal Naval Servise.” ‘The membership Incindes womes employed on Auties connected with the navy, chiefly in dockyards and at naval bases. Members will . wear a distin¢tive uniform of navy blue with brass buttens, The members of the new service have alWeady been nickpamed “Wrens,” this being a / convenmient mu:o!fi.infll’dw R, N. 8., which they wear on thelr coliars. ESSEX FELIE C. C. TO SUSPEND, Moatelalr, N. J, Dec. 27.—Follow- ng the annual New Year's event of the Essex Fells Country club at the new clubhouse on Eagle Rock avenue, the elub will suspend activities during in order to conserve coal. n- elub took possession of the new French camoufieurs at work chang- ing the landscape along a country FAT GENTLEMEN LOSE THEIR FEED| There Is Gmamng, and Moaning, and Gashing of Teeth New ‘'York, Dec. 27.—Unto the An- ¢lent, Honored and Amalgamated Or- der of Fat Gentlemen of New York City has come disaster. Yea, disaster has come in great gobs. And it has dealt a staggering blow. Read on! Forty men comprise the club, whose headquarters is at 243 East ' Third street. Any man whose avoirdupois oan be estimated by the poorly edu- cated is non plug ultra, et cetera, e pluribys unum or any other old-thing bt eligible to belong. To be a mem- ber in good standing one must tip the scales anywhere from two hundred and | thousand. | Seventy pounds to three ‘The president, it is understood, is for- bidden by law to step on ahybody's scales. Now, these little fellows were to have a Christmas Day dinner at head- quarters, the latter place also being the home of Frank J. Dotzler, one- time Alderman, now a plumber. And turkeys and chickens and pies and cakes and goodness knows what else were sent there to be baked. . And they were baked. And the night be- fore Christmas they were carted out to the bin in the back yard to keep cool, then to be reheated. This is really too sad to tell ‘When Mr. Dotzler, weighing three updred and eighty pounds in the e, scampered out of bed and into the backyard yesterday morning Great guns! Breezes of gentle spring- time! Holy plenipotentiaries! There was nothing to be seen but turkey bones and pie crusts. Imagine little ' Frankie Dotsler standing there in the first gray light of the morning dawn, grieving as if his heart would break. “It,is difficult to write further. How the hours passed after that Mr. Dotzler does not know. When he at last recovered himself and brushed away the tears, through the mist he saw coming down Third street, three abreast, completely blocking traffic, ‘Willlam Wilson, 3756 pounds; Frank Benedict, 310; Robert Beck, 270, and a couple of men who as yet have not beeri ahle to gain admittance into the club on account of their slightness— Jack Bossman, 240 pounds, and Wil- llam Mertz, 266. They were the committee appointed earlier in the week to go to the ban- quet hall in advance to arrange the high. chairs and get things in order for the other hoys. Hippety-hopping up the walk to where Mr. Dotzler stood, they stopped suddenly, aghast, when they saw the look on his face. Then' he just out and told them the whole story. Whether tramps, from the river front or dogs from the neighborhotod or just low down, ordinary sneak thieves perpetrated the act is nou known. But whoever did it may have the pleasure now of knowing he broke the hearts of forty little fel- lows whose ‘stomachs have not been filled for years. | | e Lon Newopafis toad for the purpose of mulowdlng the enemy aviators. REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE MAJORITY Deaths and Resignations Give the G 0. P. Lead of Three Washington, Dec. '27.—Deaths and resignations have altered the political classification of congress. When it reassembles Jan. 3, the democrats in the house will be outpumbered by the republicans thre¢ members, instead of being two in the lead, and the demo- cratic majorty of nine in the s¢nate will be cut down to eight. The democrats of the house hayve lost five members. W. C. Adamson, chairman -of the committee on In- terstate and. Foreign commerce, re- signed to accept a position on the Appraisers’ board at the port of New York, effective Dec. 18. Representa- { tives Griffin, Bruckner and Fitagerald of the New York delegation tendered |, their resignations, to become effective Dec. 31, the first two to take office in New York city. Mr. .Fitzgerald will ‘practice law, Representative Ells- worth R. Bathrick of Ohio died. The republican membership in the house s not changed by the decision of representative Johnson of South Dakota to go to war, although he can- not reccve hissalary while drawing. pay as an officer. He did pot resign. The vacancy by death last fall of Mr. Martin, republican, of Illinois, has not been filled. Senator Newlands' death cut the margin of the democrats in the sen- ate. * It, had been reduced. by the death of "Senator Husting, of Wis- consin. The political classification of con- gress, January 3, will be: Houlo——JRepubllcl.nu. 212; 2! progressive, 1; indepen- dents, 2; socialist, 1; prohibitionist, progressive-protectionist, 1; progres- sive-democrat, non-partisan, 1; va- cancies, 6. Senate—Democrats, 51; cans, 42; republican-progressive, vacancies, 2. 3 EVENTS TONIGHT theater, republi- 1; N Lyceum superior plays. photo- Fox’s dramas. theater, high-class photo- Keeney's theater, vaudeville and moving pictures. \ Turner society meets hall. in Turner Lexington lodge, 0.'U. A. M. hall. L0 RO BN Landers camp, M. W, street. A., 34 Church Emmet clup, 321 Main street. Sir Francis Drake lodge, 8. of St. G., 59 Arch street. Journeymen Barbérs' Church street. union, 34 Washington camp, P. O. 8. of A, There are other touching incidents{ G..A. R. hall. in connection with the affair but it is impossible to write through tear Stop That Cold At Once . MLy QUININ Top and Bhr. Hill's 24 Talheta for 3ha. At Any Drug Stere New Britain aerie, F. O. B, Eagles’ hall. WITH THE BOY SCOUTS. When the Boy Scouts of New Eng- land hold their annual conference Fri- day and Saturday at Providence, R. I., New Britain will be represented by Harold Wotheroll, Albert Hellstein, Al- bert Hawk, Paul Kalin, Arvid Thor- winson and Clement Cowles. The Boy Scouts have secusod the Permission of Adjt. General Cowles to use the Btate Armory on Arch street for indoor baseball games and a com-. mittee of Scounts is working out a schedule for the teams which will be entered in the league. Troop 12 will hold its second annual dance this evening in Booth’s hall. The proceeds of the dance will be giv-: en to the fund for the purchase of to bacco for the local soldun in Camp Devens. demo- SR o g Scenes at’ one of American army l kying fields where nearly 1,000 well- trained aviators are turned out each month. Above are the airplanes lined \ up ready for flights, and below are tho student aviators retdy for inspec- tion. Al B SR I, GERMAN CAVALRY STILL VERY ACTIVE They Have at Their Disposal 649 Squadrons Ready for Service French Front, December 27 (Cor- respondence)—Trench ~warfare has not -diminished the German cavalry forces as had been generally sup- posed for information which has just reached the correspondent of The Associated Press show the total of squadrons in the service to be even higher than it was at the mobilization in 1914. Changes, however, have been introduced in the mounted arm of the service by which some of the squadrons temporarily have been-dis- mounted and utllized as infantry, while the formations have undergone considerable variation. i | he : bers are not ascertainable. | At present the German army has| at its disposal no fewer than 649 squadrons of ‘cavalry, comprising ac- tive, reserve, mobile ersatz, landwehr and landsturm units, but of these 144 have been separated from their horses and used as infantry. This figure compares with 440 squadrons on a peace footing. When war began the'German cav- alry was at once formed into eleven | divisions, each composed of six regi- ments of four squadrons. Besides those, there were also the bodies of divisional cavalry attached to the ac- tive and reserve divisions of infantry. Rumania’s entry into the war made more cavalry formations necessary and the number of organized divisions wag at once increased to fourteen. The spring of 1917 saw the end of the Rumanian gampaign, and with this came a deo! e of the divisional formations to six, while the divisions themselves were reduced from six regiments to four each. time independent brigades of mounted troops were formed, of which the existence of at least five is known, each having three regiments of four squadrons each. Nearly every infantry divisiop is provided also with a unit of cavalry whose strength varies according to the nature of the country in which the troops are operating. From among the cavalrymen who, temporarily, 'are not employed on 9 Ah'Thatsflm:SpM Sloan’s Liniment goes right to it. Have you a rheumatic ache or a dull throbbing neunlzu: pain? Y ou can aq and effective relief in Sloan’s Liniment. Thousands of homes have this remedy handy for all external pains because time and sisme again it bas proven tho quickeat relict. S0 clean and easy to apply, too. No rub- Hu. no stain, no inconvenicnco as is the or oiatments. If you once -flu- lhmnant.yw'kl never be withe it - u...»...um, sized bottlos, at all druggists, Sloan’s Liniment KILLS PAIN At the same | q | patronesses of the day. After" long end of the Karma, with littlé the saddle. Walls was ride his mightiest in mounted duty at the front, twenty- LADY ARTHUR PAGET . Ao:;:n GOOD WAR WOKRER three regiments of riflemen have been formed, which take their turn in holding trenches with the ordinary in- fantry formations. Each ‘of these regiments is composed of four squad- rons and a squadron of machine-gun- | ners, Besides these other units of cavalry- | men selected' from the regiments of the active army are from time to time | used as infantry, but thelr exact num- | " MUSIO PROGRAM AT BALL. { The musical program which will be | offcred by the Tommasoni Mandolin Club at the Firemen’'s ball on New Year's eve in Booth's hall has been announced as follows: Robbers,” Franz von Suppe, by man- idolin ‘and’ guitar; ‘“Bstudiantina Waltz”, E. Waldtenfel, mandolin and guitar, “Caprice Espanol,” M. Mosz- kowski, piano solo, by Miss Florence Tommasoni; a, ‘“‘Serenade,” Schubert, b, “Song Without Words,” Tschai- kowsky, mandolin and guitar; “Light i Cavalry,” Franz von Suppe, mandolin and guitar. P A. D. 5. DANCE SUCCESS. The A. D. S. fraternity held its an- | nual Christmas week dance last eve- ning at the Y. W. C. A. Music was furnished by Wittstein’s orchestra of New Haven. The hall was decorated with the seals of the fraternity and service flags showing some 30 odd {/stars. Guests were present from Hart- ford, Meriden and New Haven. The were Mrs. Rudolph | Brandt, Mrs. Harrison Bristoll, Mrs. | D. Edgar Dean and Mrs. Herbert Swift. “The Jolly | Among the most assiduous of Brit- ain’s women war workers is Lady Ar- thus Paget, who was Mary Stevens of New York. Her husband is com- mander in chief of the home defense troap; in Engla.nd SALE OF ATHLETIC BLOW IN ROW The sale by the Ph.flnd\elphll Ath- letics of Strunk, Bush and Schang to the Boston Americans for $60,000 and| three players is the second big base- tall surprise for Philadelphia fans this winter. They had hardly gotten over the shock caused by the sale of the Phillies’, star battery, Alexander STARS SECOND FOR FANS AT PHILLY and Killifer, to the Chicago Cubs. This is the third time in the last few years that Connie Mack has cut’deep into his playing staff. The first was when he let Bender, Plank and Coombs go. The second was the let- ting out of Eddie Collins, Jack Barry, Home Run Baker and Pitcher Shaw- key. Washington, D. G.,’Dee. 37~ ,\fenouky. the Washington ouu formerly a Fedeoral league P! ; the latest big leaguer to be : Menosky is the third Wi i eutflelder to enmter the nationay ‘4 jce - within ' the /lasty fovtuight. | cthers are Horace | outfislder, who has joined the i tion corps, and Blily Murray, 4 field récruit, now in the ‘1 Lvr corps. mfirg Jmn-gmkmh With Oldfield and H ersfield, w. Dec; 87. was -said to by a new world bile record for .five milp eircular airt. in & xe here W Chevro) who defeated m field and Bddie o ing 3 minutes ¢8 In a trial lap, < g field clipped a secomd off the > the FAUVER m" 0O . Middletown, Dec. 37.—Wi finding 1t hard to obfsin & any experience on the vui!r‘ year, Keeler at forward, guard and Markthaler, vbo early in the season unfler the students. He has betoms. unpopular in' Waterbury, it ts stood, and had not attended practice sessions of late. WANT SUNDAY B ment is afoot, backed by the Ch town navy yard, to permit play Sunday baseball next year by m! men. The scheme needs only the dorsement of Gov. McCail. - Conald ing the large number of former Jjor league plapers stationed near ] at military camps, it s belleved cst in the games would rival | organized baseball. - - TIGERS TO PLAY REDS IN Detrolt, Mich, Dec. 37.—-A of ten or twelve games b cinnatl National and the Ametican league baseball ciy be part of the spring trainihy of the two teams, it was hore yesterday. ' Definite dates } not been decided wpen, but the are expected to start morth * April 8. The Tigers will at Wabahachle, Texas, March INGRAM TO LEAD NAVY Wi Annapolis, Dec. ' 27, nouncement has/ been made the election of Willlam A. ) captain of next year’s footbal Ingram, who hails from Je ville, Ind., is the third of hi to play at the academy and. the sailors. He Diagid & at quarter this year.