New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1918, Page 1

« which 1 HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS PRICE THREE CLNTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1018, —TEN PAGES. COURLAND AND BALTIC ZONE GERMANY’S PRICE FOR PEACE Prussians Will Oct;upy RevnlIHERBERT A I[]M]i— WINS HIGHER TITLE Within Week Ynless De- Tet, Bolshevik | d. | e i | Former North & Judd Super- GEN. HOFFMAN HITS | intendent Promoted ROV THE SHOULDER | to Major. mands Are Delegates Are Tnforme Captain Herbert A. Johnson of this city has just been promoted to the rank of major in recognition of his services at his post at Washington, D. Mr, Johnson probably ranks the highest of any New Britain man who has gone forth in response to the call of his country in the present crisis. 1t meant real sacrifice in Mr. Johnson’s case. He gave up a high salaried position at North & Judd’ where he was superintendent, to ac cept the call from Washington at a small salary. Mr. Johnson's job w to hustle out war orders for the gov- ernment and act i rector. His services were soon recognized and he became the inspector chief with rank of captain. Now he has just been promoted again to the rank of major. Mr. Johnson will remain in Wash- ington as long as the war lasts. When it is over, he will come back to New Britain to live. He is a former safety commissioner and ha taken a deep interest in civic affairs. 40 DIE, 206 WOUNDED INRIOTING IN MOSCOW Bolsheviki Make Wholesale Arrests After Discovering Malkes Unequivocal Reply to Question Concerning German’s Purposed Ac- Accede to Terms—Disposition of Territory South of Brest-Litovsk to Be Discussed With Ulkrainians. 23.—Russia must Courland and all the Baltic the Germans will resume Reval Petrograd, Jan. up perations and occupy ke militar: o the German delegation negotiation within as Litovsk in- Russians at the' last ses- An adjourn- 20 to consider the at the | fornicd: t \ conference. untit ans to sion of ment was taken January permit the Rus: German terms - eports of the session indicate the Germans took a definite stand and | most frankly outline demands upon - are insistent. 'The secre- ary the Ukrainian delegation gave out an account of the meeting. It says the Russian put a question to the Central I'ower delegates as to what hieir final peace terms. Gen. nan, one of the German dele gates, replied by opening a map and » pointing out the following line w hich they insisted should constitute the fu- ture frontier of Russia: From the shores of the Gulf of Fin- {and to the east of the Moon Sound islands to Valk to the west of Minsk o Brest-Litovsk. Th mpletely eliminates Courland and all the Baltic provinces. . The Russians asked the terms of the Central Powers regarding the terr tory south of Brest-Litovsk. Gen. Hoff- man replied that was a question which Revolutionary Plot. Petrograd, Jan. 24.—Forty persons were killed and 200 wounded in riots they discuss only with the Ukraine.| 44 pogcow on Tuesday during a dem- M. Kameneff a member of the RUSSIAN | g;stration at anniversary celebration Gslegatlon asked: | of bloody Sunday- “Supposing we 0 1ot.agTee tosgueh conditions, what are you going to do?”” Gen. Hoffman’s answer is reported | to have been: “Within a week, then we would occupy Reval.” \ The Russians then asked for a re- wess, which was granted reluctantly. The Germans declared it was the last | postponement to which they would consent. The request was made by | Leon Trotzky, head of the Russian delezation, who said he desired an op- The Bolshevik authorities today ar- rested score: of persons, including party leader who, th charged, were involved in a revolutionary plot organized among the majority faction of the social revolutionists in the constituent sembly, which controlled the assembly in the single session held before it was suspended by the Bol- hev b, ttalion of Death is re- ported to have been ready to support . this movement. The Bolsheviki found SO o o [ a large quantity of bombs, firearms s SR { and documents. Baldiers: Ce oo between the| A soldier and a member of the Red y,\l‘,\f“‘", DO e Central Powors | Guard were arggsted today, charged e proceeding amicably, The Aus. | With the murder'of A. I. Shingaroft Gfréved! fofcadel Choltitapinadto I1and § Erof SRS B o koshin S forsner the Ukrainian republic, but only on | members of the Kerensky govern- condition that the Ukrainians send | Zi€nt, who were slain in the marine & hospital last week. A sailor, said to A ,‘)"""1,;;");;:,,‘,;’f;‘j,‘f“.’,fl“‘o‘,? ;E: Ez:n have been the leader, is still at large. Ut s L London, Jan. 24.— Scandi- navia come reports alleging that con- ditions in Russia are grave. Rumors of this sort coming by way of Hapa- randa, have proved unreliable so fr quently that they may well be re- ceived with caution, M. Savinkoff and other leaders of the opposition to the Bolsheviki have arrived in Petrograd from the Don and severe fighting is in progre It is reported the Bolsheviki hav hastily summoned 2,000 sailors from ‘Helsingfors and Kronstadt, and that warships in the Neva are taking part in the encounters. Wisdom of Negotiations Questioned. Amsterdam, Jan. 24—German par- Jlamentary circles regard the Russian situation as being very critical, ac- cording to the Lokal Anzeiger of Ber- [ lin, a copy of which has been received here. The paper says the latest news from Petrograd shows that Bolshevik supremacy is seriously threatened and the question now arises as to whether it would be wise to negotiate further with men whom anarchy at any mom- ent may sweep aw RUSSIA FACES FAMINE TOBACCO FOR SAILORS ‘War Bureau Scnds Consignment Ukraine Will Not Ship Grain, Peas- ants Will Not Sell It and Storms to Interrupt Traflic With Siberia. Boys on U. S. S. Acolus—Hospi a5 Remembered. mine. it ‘Petrograd is Our pur- come grad- have an or- Petrograd, Jan the ver of f now is to make ually, not suddenly; to ganized famine, so to speak,” said Madame Smith-Falkner, a member )f the food control committeo in an interview yesterday with the Asso- ciated Press in connection with the reduction of the bread allowance. “What' are the chief causes of wreity of food in Russia?” asked. “The chief causes are the war, civil war and depreciation in the value of the ruble,” she replied. “Forty months of war tas proved too much for a country backward in econ- omic affairs railway organ tion “As to Petrograd removal of General the differences with made it impossible to ibtain stuffs from the southern inces, which are the main souric of food supply for northern Russia. As to Siberia, we have been getting grain the the time, but recent snow <torms delayed the arrival of covsequently there is an riage.” Men Also on pose The war burcau announced today that a shipment of tobacco had been sent to the en New Dritain boys on the U. Acolus. They are Thomns and John Wright, A. G. Sandstrom, George Ifobers, Stuart Hellberg, Philip Oberg, and Charles Nelson. Of this number, Sailor Thor Wright, home on a furlough, visited the war bureau this morning. ¥e stated that he Tas just returned from a trip to France and while on shore leave there he met another New Britain boy, Carl Anderson of Belden street. The war bureau has also supply of tobacco to the men at the U. S. Army B the | No. 1 at Gunhill, and [ Thomas Gavin, H. €. Jackson, ¥d- ve | ward Willilametz, KEdmund Ander- son, Albert Johnson, Wilfred R. Nell, Hugh Conroy, Felix Benz nd Tverett Hine. In this connection Clerk Earl Kisselbrack that any local people knowing of a group of New Britain boys on a particular boat send these names, together the nmame of the boat, to his office He explains that at present it is im- 1 the she sent a nine local e hospital, They are s0 and in particular, Kaledines Ukraine I food- prov- request with | NEGLEGTED TO SEND | IN QUESTIONNAIRES Some Forgo{,—Some Did Not Get, Them, One Address Wrong | HERE ARE SOME MORE Names of 51 Others Who Have Not Filed Necessary Papers Given -to Police Today by First District Ix- cmption Board. Immediately following the publica- tion of last evening’s paper: in which app s of questionnaire first exemption these alleged board's office in ared lis the several delinquents in district, of slacker City He to plead the hished visited t i, their c all, were to explain ses nieney In five 1 men whose names pub- | appeared to fill out their ques tionnaires in each instance they ined had thei 1d addr they cither queseionnaire, had been One failed | that | changed in aid that wrong, expl their the meantime his name had so he did not get his notice. Detective Sergeants Richardson and Malone today located Bugricio Pizalozo 434 Myrtle streetat the Stan- ley Works where he w working under an assumed name. He was taken befare Judge John Walsh where he complied with the regulations of the questionnaire. The officers also lo- cated Clarence Sivio of 19 Beaver strect at the Hart & Cooley concern, where he also was employed under a fictious name He also filed out his questiannaire bofore Judge Walsh. In addition to the list of names published last night, the first exemp- tion board announces the following names of men who have failed to re- spond with their questionnaires: Salvatore Prietzs, 2t Lafayette street. Henry Domenico street. Guiseppi Recchio, McClintock road. John Figura, 24 Gold street. Razurierz Jurkulewicz, 24 street. Joe Joseph street. Stephen Rosconoff, street. John TLagosz, 93 Broad street. Viadislaw Sude, 102 Rockwell avenue. Boyunn Papez George Valskas, t nancy street. Stanislaw strect. lvatore Stanislaw street. Anthony street. Mardiros street Albert man been spelled 10 Bond street. 345 Myrtle Cirek, Sciar Booth street. Lafayette 109 Orange 135 Blancato, Sestivick, 64 Cleveland street. hington 341 100 Union Wa str Corgyca, 183 Broad Bojnowski, 1 Glen 50 vk, street. Horace Beaver 50 Cofoly, Zos Jasewicz, Horace Taslokan, Beaver Phelps, care L. F. C. John Pinea, Shuttle Meadow ave. Livorio Cante, 56 Lafayette street. Anthony Bolnulski, 113 Orange str 61 Grove street. 179 Washington Stanle 1zd Peter street. Joseph Borgensky, Giovanni Galiandri, ton strect John Wrotkicwiez, | Krikor Yaccopian, 8 Grove 121 Washing- street. Washing- ric 145 .ph Kulegowski, 130 Beaver strect Tony Angelo Joseph Adolf Ldwin street 476 Myrtle street. 400 Myrtle street. Arch street. Orange street. 150 Main Baliviano, Gabriel, Bargoge, Burinski, Youngquist, >hen N Lubinski, 11 Gold street. Paoletti street. Barthomiez street. George Giovanni, Myrtle 231 Banaz, Dull, 15 Silver Monticello, street. riino 400 Myrtle strect Nvia E. Hosanna, Mic el Tomko, 5 Martrone Sofia, leaver street. Alemmo iti, 380 Main strect. hew Beonshich, 458 Main 103 Grove street. High street. K. nley Zahorhows ton avenue, Tdwin A. Houstanty street Ralph Peter Ifarming ter Road. Orange chilling, § § Krukowski, Crossi, To: Abraham street. 120 36 Yonan, Beaver Grove 160 VW street. street hington ki, | conveyed | trom street. | Ietter from i the CHAMBERLAIN REPE OF INEFFICI] NTERNAL CYCLONE BREWS IN GERMANY Populace Learns of Austrian Strikes and Discontent Grows IRON HAND SUPREME Military Powers Able to Ilold Spirit of Rebellion in Check—Masses Dis- guested With Brest-Litovsk Peace Negotiation, London, Jan. 24.—The impressions in today’s news dispatches switzerland and Holland regard- ing the internal situation in Germany on the eve of Chancellor von Hert- ling’s expected addre before the Reichstag is one of discontent among the masses suppressed by the trium- phant hand of the military party. Efforts of the German censorship to prevent public knowledge of the Aus- trian strikes and peace demands did succeed for a time but the news leaked through gradually and Aus- trian events seem widely known by the German worker. The Austrian hope that the latter would follow their lead, has mot however materialized. Nevertheless, according to the Post's Amsterdam dispatches, the rebellious sentiments of German workmen, especially independent so- cialists, are becoming stronger. This is partly attributable to the attitude of the German delegates at tho Brast- Litovsk conference, which caused widespread discontent as w: mani- fested bby the tumultuous scene at numerous meetings of the Fatherland party. The Dutch Catholic journal Tyd presents an article received through an indirect channel from its German correspondent who says that events at Brest-Litovsk and President Wil- son’s new peace formula, which in wide circles is considered a suitable basis for the regulation of society of the future, have prepared the ground for the Bolsheviki tendency “It ig recognized in educated cir- cles,” ays the writer, “that the wood- en horse has been brought in lest the German attitude gotiations may lead to among the people, The masses turn away from the veiled annexationists lust of power formulated by General Hoffman." The writer temper of the factory the industrial centers and adds: “No wonder fear is expressed here that there are more disgusted with the postponement of suffrage reform, fu- ious with the pan-Germaus, exhaust- ed in body and fortune, and deprived of the hope of the restoration of na- tional and individual happiness will ‘itself take the settlement of its lot into its own hands if any great military setback is suffered.” Tt is in such an atmosphere, if re- ports quoted are accurate, that Chan- cellor von Hertling meets the Reich- stag to speak to his own countrymen and the world. His newspaper sup- jorters say the chancellor it in no wise shaken by the recent political . but on the contrary he has the emperor’s full confidence. SCREW simor in the ne- a division population in Certain Departments Will Not Close Down on Monda Christ, chairman of the lo- administration committee, received a telegram from the authorities at Washington notifying him that the Corbin Screw corpo tion in this city may be partially cmpted from the Monday closir der. This plant, plained factory of one the war operated E. W fuel e does not apply to the entire however, and Mr. Christ ex- that only such parts of the are necessary to the filling certain order, mentioned by department officials, can be Mond SAW NO U-BOATS. D. Kilduff is in -receipt her son, William, of his safe arrival the occan. He was voung men to answer the call for volunteers and enlisted in navy in May, 1917, and is now transport duty Fxcepting vere storms the trip is de- Mrs of a - this af ing her of on side of the first one doing two very Bdward Floltz, Sam Yanyardo, 1 Wiriko, 46 Lafayette street 0 Myrtle street Tony Silver street CALLS FOR HEL] At Port 24.—A steamer An ntic Jan call for Baykerran, help from the British vadly damaged the re radio (he wnd Ly sult by In steanier was Kerran's of a sto Wias rec messt Ul of her istance ived toda : had lo need v said hou The I revealed in ol position was not RILLED IN MERIDEN FACTORY. plenty Rus- | 1 ble to send tobacco to all local boys in the navy as many are isolated nts do not wish | from their fellow citizens paper 1 ¢ 1 t and the bureau finding o what of grain in has n Ve Third it on igned. heen a Meriden, dan. 24 Be old Onesime cauzht killed was and where carpenter Whout ~tory it here he quiet one and of submarines. ribed as heing a very there were tns 2 TO MARRY, liconse has been i 1 to e Louis Sheldon Mun now with the National Army at Devens, and Miss Tvelyn . 543 Stanley street. Be (he nation’s skry lived at nlc prospective hri i ger, i yaipson of entering Munger T™h feacher forc hool WEATHER { Hartford, Jan. ror New Brit cinity: Seow ton Warmer toni L—ore- nd vi- and Frie day SN | at | th Brest-Litovsk and there is an anxlety | op work. speaks of the rebellious | cials ice | | main open. | cism i R. R. BILL CHANGEW SEAZURE IS Washington, Jan. 24—The admini tration railroad bill has heen noti to stipulate federa) opers expressly that tion is undertaken as a war emergency measure prejudice the future government toward ownership of the roads. No specific time owever, 18y fixed for turning the roads back to | private owners. The modification says the act ‘I8 expressly declared to be emergency legislation enacted to meet conditions growing out of the war and nothing herein is to be construed as expressing or prejudicing the future policy of the federal government concerning the ownership, control or regulation of irriers or the method or basis of the capitalization thercof.” all not } policy of the § and s PITTSBURGH SHOPS FORCED 70 CLOSM Few Factories Able to Re-opeu} Because of Coal Shortage THOUSANDS OF MEN OUT| iradual lnun‘nr\“vm::n‘l”\n!«’d f At New York—Boston Schools Shut, Arous- ing Commission of Education Who Declares It Is a Calamity. Pittsburgh burgh indus the center of coal fields worst conl Jan. 24 rinl district the today The- Pitts- located nation’s la soft experienced the shortage of the winte Less than ten per cent. of the mills closed down Jast Friday by the five day suspension order of Fuel Administra- tor Garfield have been able to resumo operations, it was estimated. A large part of the 200,000 men made idle hy pension are still to be out in st st said New York New York York's n administrators in fopeful Mood. While Ne still fuel portation offi- hopeful that tha weather and th placed on eastern dirccetor neral railr, would materially relieve situation. Coal suflicient for the mediate needs of all the hospitals most of the ed. The a few ing the fuellin York harbor lieved" day hy J U 8 bunkering of ships at this port Jan. 24 oal i W 'd for acute, nd tra today wer somewhat milder freight embargo railways by the of the im- nd schools has been distribut s > of bunker coal which | 1s seriously hamper in New ‘ entiroly re- | according to a statement to- | 13. Parsons detailed by the hipping board to supervise the short: | ket days of vessels has been Kxpiains Scarcity of Anthracite. Pottsville Jan. 24 md zero weather prevent unusual output anthracite conl at this time of great necd, sald W. J. Richards, president of the Phil- adelphia and Iron company in a statement today. Mr. Richards added that despite these handicaps the production coal {his winter had been unprecedented and that while there has been a shortage of cars and the roads have been hand- | lack of motive pow the would have been flooded but for the pranks of Pa., Shor of Iabor combine to Reading Coal and of ha icapped by big cities with anthracite winter. Fmbargoes Aid in Relief Work. Washington, Jan. 24—The maove- ment of fuel, food and munitions wenf face of adverse weath= rided by an unof- bound general 11 railroads and north of Potomac rivers ht ahout by em- red by Director a1 MeAdoo for Pennsylvania limore and Ohio cast of Pitts- Philadelphia and Reading soveral days weather permits neral move- forward in tl er conditions today ficial fr east the Th emban ast ht virt of the r0 on ind s situation hro yrmally ord the i by will cont 1 until least m ol for s the a resumipt L more ment. Oflicial the than coaled unable to estimate of the order other that more had been ind complaints from houschold fewer till e resu closing say ships consumers had been Boston Schools Closed. Jan, 24. - Dy sioner of cducation ative department land Woman's club lasc night that calamily that hools must | fuel while saloons re- Payson Smith, told the of the New LZoston commi log n it clos » for lack of to make any criti- wdministration,” he | of our schools | tends to demoralize tem wish ruel cloxing “I do of but several not our said the tou weelk our educational | careful “stances | bought for the supply. | by | discontinued | cendiarism ‘Was Grandson of Late Dr. E. B. Lyon Cheney in a collision of airplanes in France last Sunday will grieve many of the older peoplo of the town and community. | who was for many years a practicing physician in New Britain and recently a resident of Hartford. mother, | hood here and is now Mrs. Schofield of Petersboro, N. H., and is [the head of the Women | eration Cheney | was a leader of his class at H. |and a young man of the highest ideals and chs to the c¢; who knew him will go out to his he- Laconic [Wwith his staff. NEW BRITAIN HER ; ‘Columbus, 0., Jan. 24— Wil Official Announcement Made| | iun sennings Brvan come: o the support of President Wilson here tods when he gave out a formal statement declaring that he believes a minister of muni- tions absolutel unnecessary. He ive out h tatement at the Union station while hi train stopped to change engin of Finding “Impurities” and Sale Stopped. Washington, Jan “impurities” teens issues —Discovery of | | in candy supplied to can- | | ships today caused the of an order suspending the sale of candy to the men and also the pur- »f additional supplies pending tion department offic were not to say what the “impuri- but the announcement of immediately caused a re- of that powdered covered. There confirmation, however, and of sickness from eating the | truth have becn reported. Senator Chamberl declared It was merely stated that *“impuri- | would show that the deaths of the hu ties” had been discovered in candy ! dreds and thousands of men at ca sold to the officers and men and that | tonments and camps were due to t while chemical investigation was de- | war department and “that all epidet termiping what .the foreign sub- have been prevented if t weré no more of the had be effective so0ld and no more will Chamberlain read to t letter from t opposing tion of of aid he d counteract he propo: of navy W » 2 andi firmly that Americs military estabNshment is enmeshed inefficiency, Senator Chamberlain Oregon, chairman of the milits cor mittee, replied in the senate today President Wilson's denunciation of recent New York speech, by repeati the statement which drew the pres dent’s fire and declaring that ¢ president himself not know t shin ton, Jhny . 2 e charge invest Nav ties” were, the order currence report glass had been di was no candy no does cases war department “enator | senatc wounld he cived the ¢ He the had not becn re So far official of is known action of its kind on a roports of food poisoning plotters which have ranged kfast foods to canned goods | finally to candy as this is the firs great | by | president minister munitions crop enemy from br ind now this to irge that rding red presiden nsuly to ac slation in congres: | Senator Chambe had attacked Boston, Jan. 24.—The sale of candy the commissary department at the | navy yard at Newport. Portsmouth N. H. and other naval stations w. today on orders from All candy sold here was the government in the open ' and it was explained today in every case i »onsible de: whose bids were lowest were aw the contracts, Naval officers there was no indiseriminate purchase | and nothing had developed | indicate the presence of im- | in the stock on hand. MUNITION PLANTS BURNED lain said the pr both his verae integrity heretofore unchallengd that in replying he did so witho personal feeling against the prd nt and but iny ident I7or have s Washington 24 years,” said the senator, ved the public in my state the of my ability and in all time 1 have never had my verac called in question nor my integrity i peached, and I have passed throuf some bitter campaigns. It is the fore with some feeling of humilia and also sadness that I rise to & q tion of personal privilege when | veracity has been called in quesf | not by an ordinary citizen, not by ¢ of my colleagues, but a very di guished gentleman who has the Id and admiration of the people and by their suffrage occupies the high place in the gift of the people, may say the highest place of any in the world. “These personal charges against amount to nothing to the Amerid people but affect policies which involve the future of this country, not the entire world.™ Senator Chamberlain said he sumed responsibility for his spe before the National Security Leagu New York. He had read to the sen a verbatim report of it. Upon his return here, Sena Chamberlain said, he received a let from the president containing a g tation taken from the New ¥ World and asking of the quotaf was correct. The president that he did nat like to comment the statements until he knew positi} ly that the senator had actually m: Lyon | them. The letter was received too late a reply Sunday, Senator Chamber] continued, but in a letter sent to White House the following day, replied that he had been quol substantially correct in the Wo but asked the president to read entire speech as printed in The Tig instead of anly a part of it Chamberlain’s letter ad; discussing only the po policy” of the military After stating the military affairs e stimony in the comn tions the senator's le by mar- that | stock here to purities Building Covering Half | Block Destroyed by Tneendiary Fire —Loss Estimated at $500,000. i Camden, N. J., acturing establ Jan. 24—Two man- hments engaged in manufacture of war materials » destroyed in a fire which swept tory building covering a half today. The property loss will $500,000 it is believed. In- suspected. block 1ch is LIEUT. CHENEY KNOWN HERI of This City. The death of Lieutenant William H. Lieut. Chen grand- ther was the late Dr. E. B. more His Mary Lyons grew to woman- William H. Civic Fed- of that state. Lieutenant was a young man of 24, and rd, nator that he was ‘or lck of tablishment perience in mittee and te toe's investis continued I believe I know sc the deficiencies in the Hive Aistoed: tablishment, deficiencies Pazinyg Janlls 1eoGen il Taaker T E | o oy raca g AUN Bilaa, U. 5. &, Bas.arrived in France |5 00we tHRE QUER e S for the proper prosec cter. He has given his lifc use and the sympathy of all his reaved mother. BLISS IN RANCE Dispatch Says He GEN. thing ab militar which proven in be remode! ution of war and have these disjointed unco-ordinated defects weeded out. In his letter the senator also fered to go over the whole situaf] with the president, but said he | and staft Gen. Bliss, the chief of stalf, member of the American the inter-allied conference He returned to the United December, was a mission to at Paris. 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