New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NTS. PRICE THREE CE FAILED TO FILE QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUGHT BY POLIGE First District Exemption Board IECTIVES SENT OUT 70 ROUND THEM UP Li Several Who Were Absent on Regis« ‘Who tration Day Among Those Dodged on Answering Military Ques- tions—Many Names Indicate For- h or Parcutage—More ming Out in Near Future. Chairman A. F. district exemption board, today turned over the police department a par- the delinquents failing to s . Among the 1re which are the detective bureau, the charge having occasion investigate them for appear for examination lled for the draft. 1ln each the names are to be found the registrants on June 5. Sergeants Richardson and {oday commenced work in 15 up the delinquents. The names contained in the list are ws w. Corbin of the f to li their names to in i of ] tile questionnz 36 familiar previously to failu whey instance among eDetective Malone i o street Alfanso street Emil Steve Steve Armstrong, Court Selvester, Myrtle Davoly, Mill street. Shlumski, 48 Grove street. Draoewski, 67 Grove street. Jrank Kulis, 75 Grove .strect. Ignacy Relicky, Broad street. John Gerochowski, 280 High street. Thomas Fuller, 27 West Main street. Wadislaw ~ Stepnoki, 24 Oranee street Joseph Conelia, 56 Lafayette street. Paul Joseph, 72 Broad street. Powel Osawski, 36 Silver street, Absalom Jacob, 72 Broad street. Frank Tots, 56 Lafayette street. Albert Ragnetti, 85 Mill street. John Paliska, 24 Orange street. Lauranza Goulet, 70 Beaver strect. Mike Constanza, 22 Upson strect. John Rausched, 42 Silver street. John Bodzyt, 124 Beaver street. Clarence Sivis, 434 Myrtle street. Frank Brodsila, 19 Broad street. Mat Wgierchowsky, 21 Horace street. Stanislaw Kowalski, 18 Broad street. Anthony Pska, 80 Broad cet. Alex Sryzsuoski, 33 Orange street. George C. Booth, 84 Camp street. Iidward Oliver Robbins, 114 Main strect Joseph Rewiski, 45 Silver street. Joseph Doleck, 41 Clinton street. Pizolzo, 43 Myrtle street. 30 Grove street. Gold street. i, 64 Booth street. be announced in igreia Joseph Kiez John Slaby, 83 Mayor of New York Forces Resigna- n of Police Commissioner for Not “ase. Following Up Cruger New York, } days Jan. —After serving of New York under Mayor Hylan, Fred- J as police commissioner erick day Burgher was asked to resign to- by the mayor on the ground that he had failed to place on trial motor policemen for direli tion of duty tuth Cruger murder case as ‘ommended by a grand jury. Mr. Burgher, being an appointee of the mayor, complied with tre reques Tn his place Mayor Hylan appointed as acting police commissioner Richard Enright, a lieutenant in the depart- ment president of the Police- men’s Benevolent association. He ‘was directed by the mayor to suspend the motor-cyele policemen referred to ind proceed with their trials with tle delay as possible. the and as KILLED IN ACTION th of Fhree Infantry Men Roport- ed by General Pershi 2 on, Jan. 2 repor kitied save 3.—General Per- 1 threce American in action on Janu- no details of the toGay fantrymen ary 21 B engagement The dead were ivate ATberi Co ook, West Private ert Private Ohio. DENY LOSS OF GOEBEN Berlin (Via London), Jan. 23 »ficial statement issued by the Ger- wdmiralty regarding the naval be British and Turkish a entrance to the Dardan- 20 says the Turkish Yawuz Selim, formerly Goeben grounded Ightly An man action forec el ween january eruiser Sultan | 1 WAR CRY BY HEAD OF ENGLISH LABOR “We Must Fight On”, Declares | President of Conference | n Yet That Kaiser is Willing to Accept Principles of Wilson, idoyd George or Labor Pariy—No Parleys Before Evacuation. Nottingham, IEngland, Jan. | the opening today of the annual labor | | conference Frank Purdy, the presi- dent, said that if Germany would not accept the terms President Wilson, Premicr Lloyd George and the labor | party had laid dawn as the minium, “we must fight on.” President Purdy said that in view of the declarations of President Wil- | son and Premier Lloyd George, Ge was fighting a defensive war. ‘We see no signs yet,” he “that Germany and her allie are’ will - ing to accept the principles enunc! ated by Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Wil-| son and the labor party Mr. Purdy said peace by negotia- tions while Germany was occupying territory of other countries, would bo a victory for Germany. The conference is larger in point of membership than its predecessor. It is attended by 800 delegates re= presenting nearly 50,000 members | of trades union. The atmosphere wa somewhat electrical as it was realized that ths issues to be discussed would have far reaching effect on the failure of the party. The climax was expected to be reached on a vote as to whether the members would be called on to leave the cabinet. “Peace, when it added, comes, must be a peace that freedom for all small, a peace will secure liberty and nations, great and based on the will of the people,” said Mr. Purdy. *It must be a peace in which labor, nationaly and internationally must play its part in order to secure full and fair consic eration of its ciaims. Appreciate Lotty Tdeals of U. S. “We appreciate the lofty ideals which induced the United States to join the Allies.” Whatever might he the view of the labor representatives as to the effect the Russian revolution had exerted on the course of the war, the president said, they welcomed it heartily cause it had released the Russian peo- ple from thraldom. He continued: “If our responsible government and its allies had endeavored to appreci- ate the real meaning of the revolution they would not have been so luke- warm toward that great event.” The government had sent Arthur Henderson, then a member of the cab- inet to Petrograd, Mr. Purdy contin- | ued, but had declined to accept his advice and even today there was no great anxiety on the part of the B ish government to recognize the pres- ent leaders of the Russian people. Mr. Purdy’s statement that the declara- tions of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lloyd- George made it impossible for Ger- many to claim she was fighting a de- fensive war, but that no sign could be seen that Germany was willing to accept the principles proclaimed was | received with some dissent, cries of “Oh,” and with applause. “Will the German democracy deflne its war aims Mr. Purdy asked. “\Will the German democracy face its government as we have faced ours?” The conference took up the pro- posed amendment to the party consti- tution. Arthur Henderson, former member if the British war cabinet, on behalf of the executive committeo moved the membership of the party should consist of all organizations With these men and women who were members of a local labor party and that they should subscribe to the pro- gram of the party. SUSPECTED OF SPYING Two Mcen Who Claim to Be Members to he- 9% of Coast Artillery Tound >atrol Ship Chart Room. Baston, Jan. 23.—Guards on trol ship undergoing repairs at a local shipyard found two men in chart room early today, shortly after they had been ordered from the yard proper. The men who were in civilian clothes gave their names Frank Libby and F¥red A. Jackson and claimed to be members of a tillery organization stationed at one of the harbor forts. They were turned over to the naval authorities, who ordered an investigation and sum- moned oflicers from the fart to look them over. 1t was said the men gave planation of their reasons for visiting the vard. a pa- as s CITY GUARDE BLAWED ON GZERNIN| | The socia many would claim no longer that she | | If the government acts otherwise the general peace, a just peace, a lasting | the | coast ar- | no ex- | CRISES IN AUSTRIA | BOLSHEVIKI BITTER ALARMING GERMANY | AT PARLEY FAILURE Situation Foreshadowing Internal | Germany Stripped of Coats Which | Revolution Arouses Berlin Editors | Hid Seltishness, They Say RUSSIA FACES STARVATION Vorwacrts Iiclieves Bmpire Has Been | Food Unobtainable in Northern Sec- Walking on Idge of Precipice— | tions—Bread Allowance Reduced Zeitung Believes ¥oreign Minister and Eggs Limited to Small Chil« “Stage Managed” Strikes — Peace | dren—Passenger Trains Cancelled. Mecting in Cologne. London., Jan. — e Trotzky the Bolshevik foreign minister who returned to Pe- trograd Monday night, is st newspaper Vorwaerts, of quoted by the Exchange Tele- Berlin, emphatically declares the sol- graph correspondent at Petro- idarity of the German proletariat with grad in a dispatch dated Tues- the Austrian labor in the peace strus- day saying the German gle, and maintains that the terms preponderantingly Dual Monarchy must re- vored annexations, tihen of action Germay ject being to strangle Russia “We economically and politically. of a precipice The Austrian delegates, the it foreign minister added, played the no very active role in the ne- take its place the side Aus- gotiations, merely assenting to trian ally. every German proposal. “As the fruit of pan-Germ: (e _ aganda,” it says, “we are menaced not | only with the wrecking of the peace | negotiations with Russia but also with | complete political isolation. This | danger can be avoided only if the German government declares itself in | agreement with Foreign Minister Czernin’s declaration respecting ad- herence to the principles of no an- nexations and no indemnities, and draws therefrom all practical conclu- sions which must be drawn honestly. London, Jan. 23.—The peace agita- tion in Austria-Hungary is receiving a great deal of attention in Germany. as cvents de in have a ' in have been walking on the in the last few days on to demand that government resolutely cdge says and German zoes by of its 23.—A the Brest-Litovsk the- Bol- shevik telegraph agency at Petrograd empha German refusal to give any sort of | a guarantee on the evacuation of oc- | cupied territory. | In such circumstances says the | statement “the words ‘self-determin= London, Jan. ment dealing with negotiations long state- issued through izes the advantage of the ation’ sound like mockery of princi- ples and the people concerned.’ The statement then asks what ob- ject the Austro-German imperialists had on December 25 in recognizing the principle of a democratic peace and answers: “The same object as was followed by Wilson, Lloyd George |#nd other imperialists in exhibiting their democratic proclamation and ent complexion there are indications | growing humanity and the complete of considerable irritation toward Aus- | control of capital.” After a wordy tria, which in some cases is expressed | speculation as to what prompted the frankly. The Taglihe Rundschau of Germans to take the course they Berlin declares that, owing to support | topok in the negotiations the state- from the Austrian government, demo- | ment continues: cratic internationalism has come to “The revolution cannot live in at- the surface, is stirring up strike after | mosphere of deceit and falgehood. strike and preparing for democratic | The revolution may not at a given peace of the sort Trotzsky stands for. | moment be in a position to repudiate It also speaks of a fresh crisis arising | the annexationists but it will never in Germany through the action of the | humiliate itself to call black white German social democracy. ind won’t cover up the brutal an- The Frankfurter Zeitung nexationists pretensions with the fig much concern the peace | lcaf of democrac in Austria, remarking that Germany “The significances of cannot be asked to agree to an un- | Ljtovs pour parlers conditional peace after such a war as | stripped from this, nor can Austria. It complains jts false coats temporarily borrowed that the Austrian government might do | from the democratic wardrobe and more than doing to make it clear | cxposed the cruel reality of anne: that it is not in the special interest | tionism of owners and capitalists. of Germany that the nations are |There is nothing more to be demand- standing together in the peace nego- ed from the pourparlers.” tiations. The Zeitung conjectures| M. Karakhan, secretary of the Rus- that the strikes in Austria are at- |sian delegation at Brest-Litovsk has | tributable to Count Czernin’s “stage | announced, says an Fxchange Tele- | management.” Other German papers sraph despatch from Petrograd, that express strong dissatisfaction at the the Russian delegation has made an attitude of Count Czernin | official protest to Dr. Von Kuehlmann consequence will be that, while Aus- tria-Hungary and Russia enter into lasting relations of friendship, Ger- many will remain excluded therefrom |and ‘we shall lose our last neighbor | and friend.” Irritated by Czernin Among the newspapers of a differ- e at agitatio the Brest- are that they German imperialism | He M’ADOO TRAFFI( STEAMERS SUNK LO5S OF London, Jan. e By of two seamers by the enemy Mediterranean alout three wee 718 lives were lost officially today. it was ann The announcemecnt was made} WILSONM'S S NOT BLOCK INDIAN 130 YEARS OLI} PREFERS FLOOR TO § Chicago, Jan Kabey woywence, a Chippewa In said to be 130 years oid, w here from his home Lake. Minn.,, to attend the mobile show which opens Monday, does not like the Although he with a bat down-town hotel slept on the floor hotels cars, N 4 man’s bed oceu pied a leadir night, said room at las he that berths beds in anc in sleeping D to one o crar ordin the records where tiic oldest a the agency Indiar lives, he America the Indian is and Suggests New Arrangement. Indianapalis, 23.—A the Jan seven havr day during the war, instead of present suspension of industries by the administration to conserve coal relieve railroad today by of the congestion, gested Samuel president of Labor in tion of the America Mr, a to the United speech Minc Gompers’ speech was e the action of prefaced seven hour fuel st adminisirat his sgestion for day with a defense the A report from Amsterdam says that | and Count Czernin, heads of the Ge 14 meetines, having the character of | man and Austrian delegations, re- peace demonstrations, were held in ;:;n‘din: the omission from the official | Cologne on Monday non-socialists | German reports the declaration of | from the middle class as well as the | leon Trotzky at the last sitting re- | socialists being represented largely, specting the attitude of the Central Chancellor von Hertling’s promised | Power vTrntzky said that after speech in the Reichst respecting | fortnight’s negotiations Germany and German war aims, is now expected on | Austria were insisting on terms con- Thursday, Count Czernin also prob- | (Fary to the principles they axknow- ably wil| speak in Vienna, | edged in their announcement of Dec- | ably 1 speak ember 25 respecting peace without an- | nexations or indemnities. | On Verge of Starvation | Petrograd, Jan. 23.—Since the dis- | solution of the constituent assembly | and disappearance of any hope of rec- onciling the striving political parties, public attention in north Russia is da cabinet had | centered on the bread shortage, the |lack of nearly all foodstuffs, the | breakdown of transportaton and com- | mercial stagnation as the result of the closing of the banks. Moscow, Petro- ud the larger cities of north have little bread. bread allowance in Petrozrad today has been reduced to a quarter of a pound daily and the food com- { mission has limited eggs to children under three years old, each child to i have four egss a month. But eges | |-are not obtainable at any pric The | commission has limited meat to small children, and potatoes have been sub- stituted for bread at many places in north Russia. A general suspension of passenger trains began today in an effort to | speed the transportation of foodstuffs from Siberia and south Russia to the north, but traffic is hindered by thc masses of wandering soldiers from all | ctions of the country who insist | their trains have precedence over | freight. Nearly all trains arriving at | Petrograd owaed with soldiers. Withdrawals on checks are limited | 500 rubles to each depositor | long lines form at the of the long delays and difficulty | Bone | = | Tenorant of Cabinet Resignation. | 23.—A Vienna de- | spatch to the Cologne Gazette quotes | the official Austrian news agency as sayinz nothing is known there respect- i rumors which hay been for the last few Amsterdam, Jan. the various in circulation that the Austrian ned or would do so Washington Believes Report Truc. Jan. 23.—Increasing ir strikes throughout Aust ged the close attention | of officials today. They believe the reports are substantially true and do | not credit the London view that they have been regenerated to deceive pub- { lic opinion outside the Central Em- pires. Their reports of economic un- rest shows a situation in Austria much more serious than that in Germany. Washington, ! reports of anti-v en Strike Spreads Quickly. erdam, Jan. 23.—The strike in Austria, acording to a despatch from Vienna_ printed in the Vossische Zei- tung of Berlin, was started by a work- man named Schorenelder, who in- duced a couple of hundred of his com- rades at the Daimler Motor Works | in Weinter-Neustadt 13 miles south of | Vienna, to walk out | The strike spread Thursda last week all munitions and factories were forced to Hundreds of thousands of per- | and sons gathered in the streets. No ! ¢ <ongs were sung and | Am rapidly and on | ire < works daily “los to banks be- in zetting money Tested for Berths, Ar sion Twenty. Member Non-Commi Captain F. E. Rackliff of Guards conducted an ex: 1 last evening in City hall for didates for non-commissioned berths, and announcement ssful candidates wiH ¥ drill ir the City mination 20 can- offi- of be the succe « 1t regular the Dardanel The strand ad- the vessel wis not ish report. the Lrmory evening rnment tate tomorrow 05 supplic | | 1ou } ridge no banners were lown, the dispateh only threat ind demands being he: bhox and silver ‘ | wre vpening safe deposit s grumbles Miscatin oarded rold und trike ned printi and V nd wll sh “losc (Cont e e~ | WEATHER ) Jan. New Britain and r. continued cold | Tivnrsday Hartford, castfor vicinity: ) tonight. 1) hitly | " T T Work izesumed Today Jan. 23, via Amst Vienna rdam red mijority papers of reappe Fair, resumed in i warmer, L“‘ the factories work. | think ! hour | sults those in high governmental who may have made mistakes prompted, he said, by the to win the war the great transition peace to war could be made mistakes Was asking the Continuing he said: “The order issued a few days 1 regard as an absolute necessity know there now discussion to peal or modify the Sherman a trust law. I am not going to excuse for the railroads, been lax long, but the man anti-trust law, forbade the do what now the dircctor genc railroads has the to do um had occurred as and somethir had lieve the situation ‘I think there is the making and T trust it will hanged modified. | refer to closing of industrial and commer plants additional day each T think it is a mistake to have a day such as Monday idle and ing from Saturday afternoon Tuesday helieve order so that of there nine s pat and are tic purpose that impossi t any have right ind W to be done to no mistake or inve u it inst ol morning. 1 changer ten were heing or universal better power proclaim a se day during the would follow. ‘We have results in 11 wonld to the the pracii war, virtually the sa the conservation of fuel needful commodities do violence to the would other not traditions. work and al operatior | commerce “T hope the port somewhe change: but if does not to obey like a soldier of am goin= to yield my judgment and 3 ahout I am gol America. and bring a action of the men public are placed ( | DALY wWAR COST { BRITAIN | | -——Andrew i : cellor of the | today in commons that the during the January 19 sterling yier announced | the daily house of e weeks pound sl < period spasmodic fuel and Workers give t N in GOMPERS IN FAVOR OF SEVEN HOUR WORK DAY Praises Washington Officials '} | universal of was sug Gompers, American Federation | conven- of arded | as labor's message to the country on ion. a of station hey o to from | without ble. ago You re- nti- ffer hey her- to The increasing To- in he the cinl week. whole V- ntil the ead zht | hours as a day’s war work, the same ver re- me anl T to the history, to of industry and szestion will find sup- that ing T judgment to the in | Whese hands the destinies of the re- Washington, Jan. 23.—Conferen between senate leaders hand- President today ling Wilson’s the military committee’ bills to cabinet and director virtually decided that refer- ence of the war cabinet measure to the military committee will not be opposed. Thus the first clash has been avoided This plan create a war munitions was decided ministration spokesmen said, not fear that they lacked votes for t of strength but rather to avoid hroadening the schism with the White House and also to follow usual procedure of legislation \ debate upon, ad- in a est izorous however, ex- pected tomorrow if Senator Cham- carries out his intention to | reply the president After allowing the war cabinet bill 2o to military committee, admin- istration leaders plan to have it also referred the naval commttee. The to he sent fo the naval committee. Tn tomorrow’s debate Senator { Chamberlain’s supporters plan to Iring up a broad discussion of army conditions and the war department ce-organization. Col. Roosevelt received some con- ressional friends today at the home | of his son-in-law, Rep. Longworth, of ! Ohio, where he is making a four day [ visit, but otherwise spent the day cuictly. Mr. Roosevelt did not the capitol herlain to to to g0 10 BRIDEGROOM CALLED INTO NAVY SERVICE { Frank Basile Takes Miss Gertrude Anderson As His Bride and is Summoned to Duty. | Suddenly vice of the few hours i rather Basile called into United of his marriage startling experience of Kensington who was mar- Saturday afternoon to Miss Ger- Anderson of 9 West Pearl street, this city. The wedding, which oc- cured early the afternaon, was fol- lowed almost immediately by a notice from the Naval Reserve headquarters the young bridegroom report Thursday at Pelhan active naval within a was the of Frank ser- the States ried trude in a for m Bay for Basile enlisted serve last no idea when lactive service. was farmerly mont street residod in onth as a s the aman had was to be called into He is well known and made his home on Tre- but for the last fow years in Berlin 'HORSE MEAT FOR LONDONERS Naval but he has Butcher Telils Associates He Has Been Asked to Kill Animals and Furnish Carcasses for Huuman Consumptlion London, Jan. 23.—At a meeting of the butchers of Harrow vesterday one of their number said the short- age of meat had become so serious that authorities had asked him to start killing horses and he was be- ginning this week with a hundred head. Harse meat he said, would perhaps be not very palatable to some but it had to come FORMER TEACEER DEAD Joseph K. Gibbons Succumbs to Diph- theria at Tome in South Boston Word death { occurred has been received here of the Joseph G. Gibbons, which at his home in South Boston on Sunduay night. Diphtheria was the cause of death. Until last November Mr. Gibbons was instructor in manual training in the loeal scheols and re- signed in order to enlist in the navy. Mr. Gibbons enlisted in the Naval Reserve forces and was as second class carpenter on ship, Commonwealth taken ill last Thuy ) his home wherd a receiv- He and died three night wer * fight against | munitions director bill also is | | | | | | { | specializing | 1t caused | wheth | assistea s was autho or-General Mg doo. The action was taken on the recom mendation of A. H. Smith, assistai director-general, in charge of the Eas| The embargo is temporary and expected to continue a few day McAdoo’s Announcement. “Ou account of the extremely sd vere weather which has particular] affected operation of railroads oross ing the Allegheny mountain: the announcement, “Director eral McAdoo, upon the recommends tion of Regional Director Smith, hg authorized him to place an embarg] upon all freight except food, fuel an such war munitions and war su plies as are specifically approved h the war department upon Pennsy vania lines east of Pittsburgh, Balf more and Ohio east of the Ohio rive and ‘the Philadelphia and Readinj for the purpose of enabling the: lines, which are the heaviest bity minous coal carricrs to continy upon coal for the doub supplying the acute coy New I3ngland and the h ew York and elsewher provision of empty and coke ovens. “This embargo is a should last only a ther moderates.” purpose of ditions in bor of in the mines ar cars fr temporary few da the we g Local will not the last IXmbargoes in Effcct. practical effect of the ord greatly change conditions few days, it was stated | railroad administration ofiicials, sing al emba red lo e many made already have been d eastern roads. The on the initiative roads with the general a Mr. Smith. In many cas| embargo virtually 1 o fect Lecause severe weather preve ed railroads from supplying cars shippers. An food, cle by been individual proval of an was embargo on cverything b fuel and munitions has be under consideration for several da up to last night, the director ge eral was not favorable to a generf embargo believing that railroads e would be able to move the entire v{ ume. of accumulated freight. T hope was shattered last night by t] continuation of bad weather almd everywhere east of the Mississi and by the break down of loco tives and slowper movement of o and food shipments. A threatened ew York the decision. America’s industries, idle for ¢ past s under the fuel admi istration’s closing order, resumed o crations in the face of a congest] transportation situation e Mississippi threatening dail come worse because of adverse weat er conditions. At the end of the five-day restricti period no official could say just w! the effect of the shut-down was cept that it had got coal to seaboal for ships Homes in many parts of the count} still were without coal although at fuel administration it was thoug] complaints of lack of coal for hou hold needs were fewer than in sd eral weeks. Bad Weathey Railroad congestion much relieved, but it to say whether the ory helped or not. Bad weather nul fied much of the good effects the we eral closing might | had in ing the railroads there wide difference of opinion t hut-down would u 1 moving the weather had the dire serious coal shorta also is said to hal five day Interferes has not was impost bel ¥ closing Ve cled was as haj freig 800! teri in even if With field cheme send sumer been tor-gencral, Dr. G today to devise inate cross-hauls a from the mine the co the shortest route O tails plan will be worked by a committee of two officials frd the railroad fuel administration, T spite reports of the office at the # administration that such steps wo: move freight more rapidly than 14 week and coal was going in lar quantities to domestic consumers, ecessity of quick dealing with | transportation system v emp! to elir coal to of the 1] 9 as (Continued On Ninth Page),