New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 1

Heney, " been taking be esel todian been y cBmmittin asked for age inquir Veeder, appeals restrained a marshal from res, moving % ) ¢papers already seized by the governs | arguments will be aimed at the ment. b % espionage o r v‘t * cau already the determination whether t] for court to retain such preve court the HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERA PR!C” THPEF CLNTb NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918. —TEN PAGES. YGRESS ASKED TO. F"F AWAY BARRIERS . SHIELDING PACKERS Federal T,x.dp Gommlssmn Seeks‘ Laws Enabling 1t to Examine Papers Protected by Gourts AMENDKENT T0 ESPIONAGE ACT PROPOSED BY HENEY | Papers Ield by Veeder, Counsel for Big Mecat Houses, Used in=Commis=~ Felonies, Investizator Already Gath | red Proves Conspiracy to Control sion of Claims—Evidence 1s Allegation. ston, Feb. 28.—Special and ation to lay bare the.cons files of the great meat packs lose what governmrent in- helieve will show plans to iplete control of the meat in- asked of congress today deral trade commission. | recommendation of Krancis | special counsel conducting tha ommission’s investigation, who has strained by court orders from further papers and also frora those already seized by his the commission laid the facty | congress and asked for action. | that Henry Veeder, coun- | the packers, still is the cus- of many papers which hava | used as instrumentalities in the | of felonies, Mr. Heney supplement to the espion- i law to facilitate the government’s | into the industry. | After Federal Judge Landis of Chis » had issued a search warrant au, ing the seizure of important | uments in the possession of Mr. the federal circuit court of fider er ves tak dustry the On as v using gen Charg! or or examinin vers in Veeder’s v 1 examining or in a any of the wlt and further ¢ way using ro | Mr. Heney asked that | amend or supplement the act so that the “d on | »f o judge who issues a scarch wars rant shall be conclusive upon quess ion of the existence of probable | , and that a summary proceeding | provided by the statute for of the question of the property scized undet writ shall likewise be conclusive the purpose of only enabling th{ proper! in the of the law until the purpost | zure shall have been served. Specifically ongres: he ustody Court Order Blocked Exposure. action of the appellate cour! the stay, said Mr. Hen nted the government from e amining papers already in its pos- and which a federal district had found had been used a3 means of committing felonies by & Co., and other corporatio its letter to Vice President Mar sident of the senate, the ibed this question to be of such vital importance to its work and possibly the work of | other departments of t rnment as to require its callin matter to the attention of co “In his letter, Mr. Ileney Veeder, at the bect tr trial in 1912, after the statute of limita- tions had expired, had testified that | for many years his office w the clearing house for the five biz pack: in a criminal conspiracy whicl maintained for the xing of and control of the meat indus- t | n | ion Swift in 1 commi | | | W the ess, declared | they prices evidence which have in the present estiga- continued Mr. Heney, “strong- ly tends to prove that this conspiracy with E ‘ht modification to its scope and purpose, has continued in existence ever since and is still active wnd Veeder is custodian of many papers which have been used in the pursuance thereof as instrumentalis ties in the commission of felonies. fhe Swift, Armor, Morris, Wilson Cudahy packing companice are mentioned in the alleged felonie: we inv some and specifi commiss SOLDIER GIVEN FIVE YEARS| ) Iliness ally n of Cambridge () Conscript Guilty signing and Speaking Disrespectfully to Officer. Ayer, Mass, Feb, 28.—John jean of Cambridge, a private in Com 2, 501st infantry, charged with illness and making disre- remarks to officers when or- perform military duty was \ five-year prison sentence by martial ION 0" HONOR AWARD. 28.—President Poin- ay conferred the Legion on Dr. Louis Borsch, given court a Hono | rines and mines in the | February 23. | the | thi | advocate a different method | sessin | either have an entire | city property, or -3 ¥ POWETS. which reported today, | the Central Po ol ) FRENCH AND ITALIAN SHIPPING ESCAPES U-BOATS DURING WEEK s T —No French r more than 1,600 tons was sunk by enemy mines or submarineg during 23. One lost vessel ~ Madrid, Feb. 27.—TDhe Spanish press announces today without official confirmation the torpedoing of the Spanish ship Efforts to obtain official confirmation clicted this comment: -boats obtain better re- sults against Spanish against Italian and last week.” Tuesday it ish steamer doed. Shc sel to be many ords ing a Spanish i " sarniero. the week ending February wsm under that tonnage wa but no fishing ships were sunk. {ries into French ports 016 and departures 901. French tonnage Rome, Feb. 28.—Ttalian immune from Germs week el v ported Neguri had be was the fifth Sy by submarines in a weeks. Available shipping re .ontain no information concern- ship named Sarniero. the Span- torpe- anish v hipping subma- ending was at- submarine was n sunlk One v and beat off it tacked which attacked a MUST PAY TAX O DESTROYED HOMES ASSISTANT MANAGER OF YALE 11 KILLED Court Decides Against Rebates to | Curtis Scaman Read Meets Death Owners of Property Burned Whi Plying in ) s at Halifax. N 1 Aviator. Halifax, Feb- 28.—Own of prop- | erty destroyed by fire which vept | received over an area of two and a half square | statcd ¢ miles after the explosion on a muni- |of 1915, tions ship in the harbor here on|ensign, ilying in December 6, must pay taxes on homes | killed. Read w which no longer exist, under a ruling | of the football squ by the court of tax appeals he remained in In dismissing petitions for remis-|been manager this year. sion of taxes the court held that as nity connecctions were Scroll and the assessments had been levied be- | Keys, and Delta Kappa Epsilon. fore the fire there was no legal way | He was the son of the late Wi by which property owners could be!| A, Read of New York city relieved of liability. It was pointed | brother, Barme, freshman clas: out that the magnitude of the disas-|also flying in France with a ter did not make the case any differ- contingent. ent from one which might arise from destruction of a single building, ESSEX RECTOR HURT BY AIRPLANE BOMB and the city was in no position to | assume an attitude of generosity. | | 1, leh, Yale irtis Sean: wiator ance assistant d last year collegc 28—\ mess (6 n atead with had a naval Leen ma r and had would have His frater- s liam| is naval The taxes in question were levied | for the year beginning May 1, and the appeals were based on the ground that such property would not be in existence during that period. MAYOR FOR REASSESSMENT Will Continue to Advocate and Work | Rev. Parker Vaname, Trinity '07° Wounded in France But Returns to Post. Essex, Conn., Feb. 28.—Lieut. P: ker Vaname, Trinity 07, rector of S John’s Memorial church, who has been serving under Gen. Pershing in France for some time, has been | wounded by a bomb from a German airplane but has sufficiently recov- ered to be back in his battalion. He is as far as known, the first priest of the American church to suffer cas- ualty. HELD AS GERMAN SPY Man, Yor Different System of Taxing Property. Having started his re-election mayor, today said that one campaign Mayor Quigley of his platform as- ‘While this will not be incumbents, but wiil tem used in id that he will of ors’ office. directed at the rather be aimed at the , the mayor s property. explained that one of Bridgeport Loading Bayonets, he will two re: have He put through try things, ment of an all-time wys that he e enough to Never Reach Destination. | board of assesso | thinks the city | have an all-time : of two or three men and he will work to this end. As an ument in favor of a different system in the assessors’ of- fice the mayor says he knows of one piece of property for instance that is not assessed as high as the mortgages on it. With an all-time board of two or three men, or a reassessment of the city property, the mayor thinks the men would have more time in which to - the grand list and make mwany additions that must in- e the city’s revenu MINOTTO CASE HELD UP Charged Bridgeport, Feb. 28.—Walter B. Schade is being held under $1,000 bond by the police here, pending in- vestigaticn by the federal authorities on the charge that he is a German spy. Schade, while loading bayonets at the freight house, is alleged to hav, said that “he woud see that they would ncver reach their destina- tion.” hade said he was a Pole, but is believed to be a German. His case will be brought up again in court on March KILLED BY TLive Bomb in Box of Dummies Show- Death. ers b Corporal John s Killed, Honolulu, ¥ Simmons, Piedmont, With Being Encemy Alien, Was Hosg | Captain Pcter Sorenson and Hanna were seriously injur three other officers received slight in- juries from the explosion of a gren- ade at the school of fire, Schofield Barracks today. The explosion was said to be due to the presence of a Jive bomb in a box supposed to con- tain dummies. son-In-Law of Louis Swift, to McAdoo. Washington, Feb. 28.—Decision in the case of Count Minotto, son-in-law of Louis Swift, the mecat packer, charged with being an enemy alien, is being held up in the department of labor, while there is a further review of evidence against the count gathered | by the intellizent office which called his arrest. His case in described as a very unusual one. Evidence shows that while Secretary McAdoo was in Buenos Aires, as head of the Inter- national High commission cultivating relations with Pan-Americans, Min- otto entertained him. Minotto con- tends his connection with CGerman banks was severed some time ago. PRIZE GREW LEAVES SHIP German Seamen Quit Spanish Ves- scl and Are Marched to Internment Camp by Swedish Troops. Coperhagen, Feb. 28 cr2w and a Spanish offics nded from the German Igotz Mendi, which refuge in Davish waters. The flag is mow flying from the A detachment of Danish corted the Germans to Ska they have been interned. The EXAMINE MEXJICAN MAIT Documents For German Official ported Found at Havana. sought Spanish vessel Re- sol- Favana, Feb. 28.-—Postoflice de- partment officials and secret, service agents are examining the mail from | Mexico on the Spamish steamship Reina Mariz Christina. The Spanish | minister to Cuba, who charge of | German interests, is watching the in- | spectio | Au unconfirmed rumor was current Eoston. n- | | where DANGER AVERTED. STRIKE Leaders Favor vated Road Offer. Feb. 28.—Dan, cmployes of the Boston Union of a Ble- was r last night that certain decuments | girike by fmm the interior of Mexico ad- |vated railway planned for tonight dressed to a German consular officer | pelieved today to be over, as a in Spain had been found. The doct- | wuit of an agreement reached by rep- ments were said to contain informa- | resentatives of both sides last nizht, tion relating to the military plans of | The union leaders who conducted the the United Stat and Cuba towards eed to recommend ht that the men ac- of an greement assista of Henry o negotiations < meeting ton cept 101 at te with dicoit the ed 1 rms the executive publi nded GOMPERS I IICAGO. Chicago, Feb. amuel Gompers, president of the American Fedcration of Labor, arrived here today to testify | in behalf of the employes' side in the | cre manag et w 500 curn tein . e i of cents an hoy resident of Paris and for- Philadelphia. in ices as litary n of eve surg Lospital FoAR I «lockyard wage arbitration. He is to | thou nico e i of the chief witnesses and it is, | nc ill plead for adopting YlH“ i hour day and in of 1 ¥ ¥ niloye declined it reached, it was 1 e for af 156 Do WO c¢ent increase wonld c ision ance ith pro i shipping than | rank of | Al Alleged to Have Said They Would | con- | en” ccepting Ele- | BALFOUR SEES NO CHANCE FOR PEACE {Yon Hertling's Speech Fails to Drive Away Clouds of War | Yoreign Sceretary Warns English Against Supine Acqulescence to Von Hertling's Conditions—Frankfurter Zeitung Ready to Discuss Peace. London, Fcb. -Foreign Secretary Balfour replied tonight in the house of commons to criticism of his recent speech concerning Von Hertling and Count Czernin, made by Richard Holt, a radical member. Mr. Balfour main- | tained his previous position that { nothing had yet happened to make diplomatic conversation fruitful of | z0od results. He added: “I say it with profound regret, but | I think that have not t had that happy stage me feel that clouds of war still lowering over the whole civili world. There is no clear obvious di- rection in which sunshine of ap- proaching peace can make itself felt. May that time come soon. But | should be deceiving ourselves in the | case_of Von Hertling’s speech if we took that supine view.” Frankfurter Zeitung Optimistic. Amsterdam, Feb. 28.—Chancellor von Hertling’s denial of any intention by Germany of encraaching in Is- thonia and Livonia, says the Frank- furter Zeitung, excludes misunder= | standing. 1t adds: | “It now must be assumed there is no fundamental difference of opinion between the chancellor and President Wilson and peace discussion based on the president’s principles might begin immediately. It is important, however, far the president to induce his allies to recognize the principles.” CHEROKEE UNSEAWORTHY Commander of Lost Navy Tug Had Protested That Vessel Was Not Fit for Duty. | Philadelphia, Feb. 28.—Rear Ad- | miral Tappan, commandant of the Philadelphia navy yard, has begun an investigation into the sinking of the | naval tug Cherokee on orders from e ngton. Twenty-nine members of the crew including Junior Lieut. dward Newell, commander of vessel, were lost when it in a gzale off the Maryland Licut. Newell's wife and vira Martin, wife of A. A. Martin, a second cl: petty officer, who was rescued from the sea after the dis- aster, declared here today that their husbands had repeatedly informed them the Cherokee was unseaworthy. “Many a time my husband told me the Cherokee was unsafe,” said Mrs. Newell. - “His death was unnecessar: He protested over and over again to coast. Mrs. 13 ss of the danger to his crew. He the boat was not fit to go up down the Delaware river.” Mrs. Martin gave out a letter from her hubsand, written yesterduy, in which he reminded her of a predic- tion that the Cherokee would go to the bottom. “Remember I told you she would sink,” Martin wrote. KIDNAPPERS EXECUTED said Mexican Oflicials Made Practice of Abducting Young Society Girls On Way Home From Theaters. Juarez, Feb. 23—Kight Mexican federal officers were excuted at Chi- huzhua City recently after having been convicted of being members of a gang which had been kidnapping rryin them away in tomobiles nd detaining them da according to information eived here last night. ps re- cure voung society girl as she em- ged from a theater, hurry her into ers the automobile and drive away | her before she could give an alarm. | | Gre Think to Tease American Soldiers and Two Receive Bullet Wounds s Souvenirs, El eral wounded States | of shot {y Mexic Paso, Feb ergean Ly cavalTy ~A Mexican fed- a private wore erday by United rols in an exchange -ross the Rio Grande cast of 15 miles from here. The ins opened fire on a patrol par- ty of vight cavalry men, who re- { turned it. The six Mexican soldic | took refuge in an adobe hut but later { attempted to escape, when of | numb wounded nd ves 1 two | their ——— WENTI rd. Feb, 28 —Foie. New Britain and PProbably rain ar colder, Vi~ late (onight Friday. | i } s e s s, REITERATES FORMER STAND | a1l indications are that we | and it is that conviction which makes | are | 1] we | the | foundered | the navy yard here and in New York | and | au- | The practice of the men was to se- | with | \CAVALRYMEN NIP MEXICANS | DEATH T0 vm\uuzlzst Two More Die F;(;n Ellects o SIXTY OTHERS OVERCOME POISON GAS DEALS Vapor Shells Thrown by Enemy American Artilleryman Scorc Hit On Iar German Dugout— | Scout Airplanc Earthed—Italian | Gunners Harass Teutons in North. | With the American Army in France, Feb. 27 (By the Associated Pres Two more American soldiers died hospitals today from thc cffects of the German gas shells, making five dead in all. Sixty others were affect- ed by the gases. The enemy todav the American batte gas and high expiosive shells, while | the American artillerymen sccured a direct hit on a larze cnemy dugout. | The American ‘s also reached | many working parties One of a group «f seven enemy air- | planes which crosscd the lines was shot down. in heuwvily shelled | positions with There Is Conned German Esp onage. _+‘ 1 Feb. 28/ Senator owner’ of the Journal, | rested last week, the atement. The Ttalian Rome, Feb. 27— fice statement tod “Bety the A and ta ther 15 activity hy connoiter patrols. They pulsed everywhere by our Ther le hetw posing ot zella and wlong teries fired of Mo ing carr “In the enemy aminunition our aviator lesday ing squadror ly railway structires Epigrime. Numerc chines incurs plain habitated {and Venicec over Venir Italian reads: e Ghe , var of Paris, N | Humbert, the Bren- hostile re- were ro- outposts. cen the op- Van Fren- Ou it nemy iroops wpa and MOV- | funds on the lower sl rhood of C | " An investigation made at the re- S quest of the Trench government by night our fv- | yttorney General Lewis of New York led successful- | sa16 chowed that Senator Humbert's at Bulsano and § gonasits were in excess of $200,000. liostile - m&- | " phe senator asked & hearing on this el ‘h“': | subject. Part of the money in L he writes, came from his M fortuno being deposited in 1915. for the purpose of hasing print paper for the use of the Journal. Another in connection investigation of German wi i of | court a letter saying he has been the placed in a false light by the cabled on s6 on deposit to his Morgan & Co. credit with neis | homba ions i bomt between particilar ques- per- Au- v T ar tion it sonal g gust, with slish Raids Suceessiul. sum had been deposited Central Bank of Norway purpose. As a A4ys N0 paper was houg better terms having in Norway. “Lnglis carried E sful 1 ight agoinst the enemy’s tre Frecnland Hill, north of th today’s war oflicc welva prisoners gun were captured and Scottis Lot troops | with | the | fact, he { America { obtained fof the for out Al same ¢hes on Scarpe’ repo machine ht in been and 1so u'h aided m part -t ma Pa tor Bolo death ha, recently sentenced treason, w paid over asserts, to enable him Mnie, Lenoir. TORPEDO KILLS 144 or oops Ger- th imd md man of Ho | twe posiion t senator to re back chine brou three thel | imbu s | “The near Ta e both early Ypres. RURNED AMERICAN FLAGS cner 1 3 ' el of | t v nd south artillery ourt arpe’ river was the s durin Pt Reported | Only On Loard Hospital Ship Accounted Tor Without Warning. T.ondon, pitil Ders ally, in the Feb, 28.—-The tle ate down Tuesd Three been d British | | ship Sinn Feiners Said to Have Scized and on « n she went Bristol channel wting 38, have Milford the The female Descerated Stars and - Stripes—— parties landed at Pembroke been include sgre; anse: | None | from seven Irish. Disorders Spread. L others The reports Feb heard print oths | Londnsn, 28 to end newspapers of missin nurses. continuc ahout of by lice these report American rrying seizures Jawlessnc e acts of s Treland unable to prevent | other incidents is Feiners od two boys N land Sinn s in — to e Amor thy m flags which in street in tore and burned them Henry Duke, sceretary credited with the opir nuch of the present lawle u an organized the Irish convention many Ithy families west of Treland ¢ the dis po- | Survivors of the ded at Swanses | was torpedoed by a submarine, whi | was not secr, but a dim light w: on the surface of the water i the ship was shattered by an ex- | plosion. LIEUT. JACKSON ADVANGED Former nart C: ared the ars said istle 1ets ship s a we ind | scen o for Ireland, that, smess 1 on to conspir It gainst i reported siding in the to Dublin to CONVICTS KILL GUARD Inmates re- sone we: has Newspaperman Passes 1ix- n cape yrders. aminations and Will Be Instructor in Musketry in National Army. First 1t Comjrany Lic 1 nart homas F. Jackson, 309th Regiment, Nation- {al Army, stationed at Camp Dix, | Wrightstown, N. J., has passed final | examination in the schol of musketry and has been awarded a certificate of efficiency. It is believed that he will be appointed an i musietry in the National Arm First Lieutenant Thomas F. Jack- son, Co. L, 309th Regiment, Nation- examination in the school of musketry Lieutenant Jackson has been at- tending the school of musketry for several months and the news of his sluceess be pleasing to his legion of friends and acquaintances. He is the son of Mrs. Thomas Jacksen of 376 Chestnut sireet and was formerly circulation manager of the New Britain Herald. He won his bars at the schcol for officers at Plattsburg N. Fscaping of Missouri State Prison Stab Officer \s He Opens Cell Door I Missouri City guard at killed with Ao the Jefferson | Jenkit Ik 5 two cons 28, —Bl state this morning by third whom they the walls and es- then released sealed | cape | When to let stabbed h leased Jenkins opened the cell the two convicts to work, they to death. They then re- companion convict, placed bo: against the walls and escaped. They were serving sentences of five to eight y door m ds 'O EXTRADITIE 0 The quest of West that statc inaicted wt was Hays toc the 3 distriet REFUSES Bosto: the federal ginia for the Join Johnson, a negro violation of the Mann nied by Commission The government snnounced would appealed to the court. NEGRO of Vir- of for de- y. uthorities return to 28 FREIGHTER ON LEDGE Coastwise Steamer Sighted in Distress | om Coast—Communication Estab- lished From Shore Point An Attantic Port, I'eb. 28—A coast- Wwise freighter was aground inh this vicinity today. The vessel appears to be resting on a ledge. Communica- tion is being made with the vessel from shore. There was heavy fog last nisht, which continued thii forenoon, ARPER H., ¥eb, Danicl DlEsS SOON WIEE For- Boyd, here returned last week to had dicd during his »f pneumonia. He Londonderry, N mer te Senator M | who disappeared from his home |in Jar find th e st uary and his wite died toc years old Charles ar- with propa- ganda in France, has written to Cap- ain Bouchardon of the Paris military dispatohes from New York regarding pur- | matter of | The remainder | the money placed to his eredit hy | to | the Sunk | Conncil. 28.—The orders a, says of the Gern| to stop the Pe xcha ance into Russ 1d cqrrespondent | Telegraph Co. No Word From Washington, Feb | word from Ambassador | his plans for leaving Petrograd | been received here v today | Secr Lansing, when asked ab | unofficial reports that the am 2 and some of the other embassie | departed, declared the departm| ll\.’lr! no information whatever. New Call to Arms. London, Feb. 28.—The Council People’s Commissaries, says a. Ret dispatch from rad, has iss another call arms in the co of which it declared the Gern invaders arresting the Wol men’s and Soldiers’ Councils, shd captured Red Guards and arm ind Austrian prisoners ne. The proclamation the troops at the front pulled themselve together resisting invasion des “May cqual the ir Francis. — No furt Francis as 1 | Petro tc is ori we ure | the the strug hlood le fall on ocialists Gerr ed ) ¢ heads are all to and Gern who uen amo Cains llment of the new army is j e chal nents the in Petre ion being s o deta fry in regiments direet of o ’'sov and formed marching rehments he children inixe the sailors det in to of ¥ from Finla invalids hf to leave | ments veral arrived Women, a )een given permission German Force in London, I%e nnish soldiers lar weapons Finland. 28.—Twelye hun from Germany transport loaded with Ger: munitions arrived Wednesday, says raph dispatch f Berlin telegram s a large Gej left a Baltic to be going i | | | Copenh: | ceived naval and is land. It was reported some days soldiergot Finnish descent in the man army were being permitted aided in returning to Finland to } the governme against volutionists. and nd Tele n. A there sa force ha supposed to forces AVIATOR FATALLY HURT. Magill ana Licutenant Dies Soon Al Lou Accidert, La., Teb. 28.—L Magill, of Je the army avia Lake Charles, tenant William I City, a member of corps, was fatally injured and IJ tenant Telland T. Colman, of marine corps was slightly hurt w their airplane fell 250 feet late terday, according to information day at Gerstmer Field. Magill soon after at the field hnsrl(.’fl WAR PRISONERS SLAIN Eight Killed and 20 Wounded Duy Night Raids On Their Ba: Near Trent. Amsterdam, Feb. prisoners have been wounded during recent the barracks at Bosen, 35 miles from Trent. Eight killed and night rajds| in the Ty Sk T e KS PROMOTIO] Ieb. 2 LENROOT Washington, tive Irvine L Wisconsin, Represer} Lenroot, republican today authorized friends at Madison to file his nom tion papers as candidate for United States senatorship to sued Paul Husting who died last Oeto e announced the issue would loyalty to the government. sole FRENCH HIRE SEIZED VESSEH] Paris, Feb. 28.—The chamber deputies voted today to appropri 110,000.000 franes to be used to ek ter German ships placed at the posal of France by Brazil. The was 317 to i1l