New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS PRI’CF TH REE ( LNHé NE\V BRX'IAI\Y @ ONNECTICU'I Ty LSDA\ MARCH 19 1918. —TEN PAGES HYPOCRISY AND BRUTALHTY CHARGED BY YON HERTLING Now secnd Natwe and | IS ATURE HEETS T0 g “netre GIVE SOLDIERS VOTE Says, in Speech Bofort Reichstag Teday, ‘Govemor Holcomb Asks Both Branches to Pass Measure. M rch 18—Chancellor the t reading in the peace ' treaty declared he did the opinions of regarding the fir of vith I in today, not wish Ny to di suss - ty ‘mies “Fartford, March 19.—TFor the sec- ond time since the Civil War the gen- eral assembly of this state, today met in special session to enact emergency | legislation. The previous special ses- sion was on September 12, 1916, when the law was passed by which it was possible for electors who were national guardsmen from this state |on duty at the Mexican border to | vote in the field in the 1916 election. Today the seneral ass adopt a somewhat similar law under which Connecticut soldiers who are electors and who may be on duty out- | side the state, either across the seas or in the United States may vote for certain nominees of political parties next fall. The statutes contain no constitutional provision for absent voters and it has become a matter of history in connection with the admin- istration of Governor Holcomb to convoke two special sessions to deal with emergencies involving the right of franchise. The bill to be enacted during the day was drawn by Attorney General George 1. Hinman at the request of Governor Holcomb and it had been carvefully scrutinized. The bill is of considerable length and much detail. Its acceptance with some slight amendment was anticipated with little delay during the afternoon session. One amendment suggested and which was likely to be incorpor- ated was that which would permit sol- dier electors to vote for members of congress and for county sheriffs, Will Limit Action. Action by the legislature today was limited to the bill in question. rt was likely to induce the to take up any excise matter as had been reported. H. H. Spooned, who has represented temperance and church interests toid Governor Hol- comb that he had no interest in any proposed legislation to give the gov- ernor the power to regulate saloons during the war period. 1. L. G lohenthal who has represented the prohibition party told members he had no saloon rezulation bill to offer ! or resolution which would attempt to bring up the question of action on the ratification of the national tion amendment, Lieut. senate at 11:30 a. Cooke made the pray Senate clerk John uniform of a major, and called the roll. There were only five senators absent, three of these, Purcell, O'Sullivan and Whitney be- ing in service. Routine matters were taken up, these providing for pay- ment of members’ transportation, adoption of last session’s rules, raising of committees to arrange for the joint convention and finally of the senate with the house in joint session. Governor Holcomb sent in the resignation of Senator O'Sullivan. In the house Speaker Healy called to order, and clerks F. J. Kenealy and Arth | desks. The up considerable In the house Rev. Mr, Mansfield, who took Chaplain net’s place, asked “God's guidance in these perilous times and that the president and other public officials be given wisdom.” Asks Votes for Soldiers. soon as the joint convention w nized, Governor Holcomb peared, unattended. He said: “Mr. president, Mr. speaker and members of the General Assembly: “It is common knowledge that to- day many thousands of our electors who are in the military and naval service of the United States are ab- sent from this stato on the battle- front in France or in cantonments in tica the second “Hypocrisy, hecome chancellor added, | nature to the whose untruthfulness is made by its brutality. ery at- tempt at calm explanation and every real deliberation must fail when the caemy, at the very moment they are Jaying a heavy hand on a neutral country, dare to speak of a policy tided by complete unselfishness, “The treaty with Russia contains conditions disgraceful to Ru provinces breaking away from it in accordance with 1 wish and the wish is ac- Russia. | mperial chancellor declared an Lithuania were united to oiitically, economically and and added: 1 :d Esthonia are the frontier fixed by the treaty, they also will have close relations with any, to the exclusion of their relations with Rus Po- not mentioned in reaty hall endeavor to if it's to live in stable zood tions with new “has worse T s is « hope iendly however, endly ia} iar the and w see and the neighborly rela etate treaty, front Feb. ers to the Reichstag adopts the peace peace on the whole eastern will be restored as I announced 24, but among the Entente pow- there is not the least inclination finish this terrible war. The re- sponsibility for bloodshed will n the heads of those wh tinuation of bloodshed.’” WILL FIX PRICES. Announces be G o wish co be Washington Croation’! orl| 22dy Committce to Protect Governmel Washington, March 19.—Creation £ a price-fixing committes under the war industries board, which will pass upon prices for all basic raw ma- terials purchased by the government and establish price-fixing polic from time to time to be approved by the president, was announced today by the council of national defense The committee is comprised of the following: Robert S. Brookins of the war industries board, chairman; Brig. Gen. Palmer E. Pierce, surveyor gen- eral of supplies for the war depart- ment; Paymaster John Hancock of the bureau of supplies and accounts of the navy; Fuel Administrator Gar- ficld, F. W. Taussig, chairman of the tariff commission; W. Harris, chairman of the federal trade com- mission; Hugh Frayne, of the war industries board; Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the war industries board, and another civilian member to appointed later. a v m, and Buckley, was at his desk RODUCTION DECRIEASES PAPER Pi Experts Attribute It To Workless | Order of Garfield. Washington, March 19 paper production in the months of the year against 222,540 ast year, in the federal trade commissio ard news production re: 206,333 tons to 176, s ascribed to the fuel al mill stocks on han Newsprint 30,192 tons; st 24,886. Monday Newsprint E two tons period toda by tand- from "he decrease shortage. To- irch 3 were andurd news first 192,599 calling of the roll took time. for the same estimat Smith of s given - ~ —— or. aj GERMAN SPY FOILED. Saint March The outfit one Nazaire, 18, police have discovered a wire concealed in a large villa at the fashionable seashore re- the right bank of the Loire. owner of the villa, a foreigner his valet we France, of sorts on The and GERMANS HELP BOLSHEVIKS. London, March 19.—Two thousand (Continued On Ninth Page). embly met to | Governoy Wilson opencd the | Chaplain | the | r Countryman, were at their | Bon- | srohibis | K | in the | | the TWD HEN KILLED J3 INJURED, WHEN HANGAR COLLAPSES| Unfinished Structure Destroyed Dinnerhy Naval Air Station During Storm INJURED TAKEN 10 MIAMI FOR CARE Ear Morning Disaster Occurs Before Night Shift En Work—>Matthew Iyn Identificd—One Unknown— Were Hustling® to Get Building ished. Miami, Fla., March 19.—Two were killed and 33 others early today in the collapse of an un- finished hangar at the Dinnerhy naval air station, near here, during a storm. Nine of the most seriously injured were brought here for treatment, the others were given first aid on the ground The dead are Matthew Mullen, Brooklyn, N. Y. and un- identified man. About 40 workmen, whites and negroes, were on the night shift rush- ing to complete the plant., They were working around a concrete mixer be- neath the hangar when it collapsed in a wind storm. Although incomplete the station al- ready is being used for training naval air pilots and observers. men an INTERNED GERMAI\ TAKE DUTCH U-BOAT Crew Which Escaped From San ncisco in January Vio- late Ncutrality. San Francisco, marine of the Dutch navy was cap- tured at Batavia by sailors from the interned German steamer Graf Luttwitz who succeeded in evading the marine patrol and putting to sea with their prize last January, cording to Fritz von employe of he Dut government in Sumatr s today on the wa to Holland. The capture was rigorously censored by the Dutch officials, von Ebelshon suid. This submarine was sent out by the Royal government for patrol duty in Bast Indian waters, he suid. “One night during the absence of the crew at a reception tendered them by col- onists, when only an anchor watch was left aboard the submarine, sail- ors from the interned German steam- er Graf von Luttwitz rowed alongside, boarded the Submarine and after a fight in which a Dutch guard was killed took possession of the vessel. “When the loss was learned two Dutch cruisers as well as several Al- lied v started in pursuit, but whether the submarine was captured, we never learned.” ac- an Ind here els JRMAN-ALLIANCE DEFENSE. shington, March 18.—The Ger. man-American National Alliance, whose activities are und tion by a judiciary sub-committee senatc Dt red today > o stand in its own behalf. have testificd in support of Senator King to revoke the charter of the organization of its alleged disloyal act: o of to ny make o AT witn bill by federal because HAS HARD JOB. March 19.—Count von Kayserling has been appointed com- missioner for Lithuania, Courland and other east territory, except Po- land, s a dispatch received hero from Berlin. He is authorized to deal with all political matters as well as the development of these territories and their future form ship to Germany. Amsterdam, 2 irmed German prisoners epabled the Bolsheviki to defeat the non-Bolshe- in the fight at Blagovieschtch~ capital of Amur province, Si- last Tuesday, says a semi-offi statement in Tokio Sun- transmitted by Reuter, nsk, eria 11 issued and . W| W. IS ACTIVE. Butte, Mont., March 19—TFifty per. sons arrested here after a disturb. ance Sunday in connection with 3t. Patrick’s Day celebration were be- ng held today in bonds of $10,000 | Germany sach. Officials asserted the disturb- [ g wnce was planned by the I. W. W. and pro-German sympathizers. London, March 19.—Fifty were killed and great material dam was done by bombs dropped by Allied when they raied Coblenz, March 12, to who the Time the veler persons airmen according Mon- on 18 traveler arrived Hague, believed were the tr “I was in the neighborhood of a munition works at Muelheim (north of Coblens and the Rhine’ at ten minutes past noon, when suddenly all the factory whistles started blow- ing and the sirens were sounded. Many wemen rushed from the works P bomb proof shelter ma sirect cars were stopped as the crews into houses. Four or five air- visible in the clear sk someone exclaimed* they neutral \t The The people Americans,’ da; E raiders COLONIZATION London, March “ol tion ich 1an OF COURDAND. 19.—The Bavarian society meetinz in Mun- decided to send 50,000 Ger- colonists to Courland, a tch to the Daily Mail An- France. said. big also on says from lispa COTTONSE PRODUCTION. rch 1 the period et for to Cotton from an- eed statistics L last 1 1ay teceipt U screamed aloud A Dut person ire coming’ h- 50 KILLED IN RECENT AIR RAID BY AMERICAN AND BRITISH AIRMEN man I knew rushed up to me and | saiad ‘Didn’t T tell you the Americans would come sooner of later? ‘I cannot | whether the machines actually were American but the striking thing was the evidence that there had been eeneral skepticism whether American planes ever would come and equal fear of them when they do.” The traveler added that although the machines mercly passed over Muel- heim on their way to Coblens it was not until 4 o’clock that the “all clear” signal was sounded. Coblenz is the province of Pruss ¢ announced ¢ day British a capital of the Rhino The British war March 12 that on iators had dropped factories, denied v Allied air raid but if W 1 ton and barracks Berliy To. Germ of hombs on i m » station over tervito filty ‘ln/nv killed at Coblenz the serious 1o id resulted reported from Just | Day’s | Muilen of Brook- ! Pins injured | March 19.—A sub- | von | message investiga- | s | ot and relation- ! AUSTRO-GERMANS CAPTURE ODESSA WITHOUT FIGHT Sudden and Unexpeoted Attack by Four Regiments Is Not Resisted by Russians - | WAR MATERIALS TAKEN | WITH OTHER BOOTY Germans Tiake Control of Banks— | Prisoners Reported to Have Cap- tured Rostov—TIamous Russian Guards Are the Disarmed By In- vaders—Head of Turkish Army to Accept Proposal of Separate Peace. ! Petrograd, March 18.—Tour ments took Odessa without a fight, according to advices received here. The Austro-Germans capturing enor- mous quantities of war materials and other booty, the rapidity of the Aus- reg 1 | AMERICAN AlIf GERMAN LI ON HIS VISI SECRETARY O1 WAR BAKER On Board Sccretiry Special Train in 11 (By the Associated “While we home,” sald Nc the American war in a talk American staff school “with our industrial tions and training our hearts are transplanted to Irance. My visit has brought me a great uplift in spirit. As & boy takes apart n watch to see how it is made in order to understand the functions of its parts, I have been taking this army apart.” Baker’s Mareh 1y D secret vion to officers at the today, prepara- of troops, FLAG GIVEN 10 U S. That Used at Funerals of Tuscania Made by Scotch Women Sent Here, tro-German occupation having made removal impossible. Before retreating | the Russians made a feeble effort to | * prominent set fire to Odessa, but were frustrated | by the quick arrival of the enemy. At Nikolayev, the hanks immedi- | ately resumed business under Ger- man control. Krarkov was vacated hastily when it was learned that the Austra-Germans had occupied Bak- hamateff, and Kostonof. | Three thousand Austro-German | prisoners at Rostov are reported to have armed themselves and captured the town. The famous Guards re ment from Moscow has been armed. The head of the Turkish army has accepted the proposal of the autono- mous government of the Caucasus to | negotiate for a separate peace. | Romanoffs Must Register. i All members of the Romanoff fam- ily over 16 years old living here hav. been ordered to register immediately by the commission for the suppres- & sion of the counter revolution. Grand | Duke Nicholas Michaelovitch and Sergius Michaelovitch are the only Romanoffs now in Petrograd | An order has been published the coraplete demobilizati of troops in the Petrograd district. Lithuanian arrested at fo1 the The ational council has been Veronezh. M. Bibenko, the Bolshevik 1 commissioner, demanded a special train to be made up for him to trav cl to Moscow and threatened to ar- rest the railway administration if he | refused. The special revolution- 1wy bureau threatened to arrest any member of the government disor- ganizing transport. Tt is rumored that resign. i | na A1, Bibenko will Kakamoff For War. Russia can only expect the support of the international prolefariat if she ws we can fight to the end, M. Ka- ared in a pro-war speech | 'w congress of the Sov- jets. He said Germany was buying up Russian foreign loans and would force Russia to pay fifty per cent. of all foreign loans a at the Russians On Wilson's Message, Moscow, March 16 (By the Asso- ciated ~ Press)—President Wilson’ to the Russian people is very significant and a limited re of the Soviet government in the the non-socialist and con- Ranneye Outro. the determination the United not to interfere in Russian internai airs, &dds the newspaper, which continues “In these grave days there is great mora] support in the firm intention of the powerful transatlantic repub- lic to secure for Russ complete sov- ereignty and independence in her own affairs. The United States, which | s red to be capitalistic by the Bolsheviki, proves faithfu) the principles prociaimed by her and tho <incerity of her position was ac knowledged by the Bolsheviki in tho hearty ption the Soviet congress the president’s message.” | The Jzvestia, the offi ment or n, characterize Wilson's message as a ‘“document the greatest political importanc ind adds “To understand essential to our the is ogni- | 1 tion | opinion of servative The mess: s de rece zave to al govern- | President of | Nue the ectly it and is cause to | interest tion The editorial declares that of great Russian revolu- although | 1 | | the United States is an Hn"(!'l(l“\‘ir'! government struggling for the Rus- | | sian market, it is far less of a | menace than Germany Japan which are near neighhors seels | to annex Russian territory con- | trol the policies of R as well as | to make a commercial conquest “\With the United States.” con- | tinues the Izvestia, “we could misunderstandings, clashes and eles, but also an a Germany, and probably | should her | an invasion o [ only a deatl or and and have reement Japan realizo aevilish in Siber g Hartford for e nify: Fair: Mareh Prit: “air ton st i and v Wedaes- ay warmer | samples. London, son, a March 19.—Hugh Scotch landowner, who took « part the ef of burial dead the Morri- in reli the it to \merican women funerais sent in a 1 ur- vivors and from the ‘Tuscania, ciated P Scotch anian of has ress an made all nest and with Pr museum which bears thi used the ident be m re Wilson select- 1o him he ilag oS asu inscrip- \n American Islay, - Tuscania 1St Islay Morrison of the flag Scotland nion at Tslay hoisted funerals Scotch and all the 1 the Juck victinis on of co housd t Mr two vesidence of land cemeteries. LYMAN ESTATE $17,000 Former who gave the for Tuscania Local Sewer Contractor Held Considerable Property About the City—Stock on Hand Ao Valuabie Charles Cadwell : rott I vs of ih late Abner ud Willi A Maplie stree Lyman of “por Ihe ¢ 5 $17.- e er items included in this and at 113 and 1 nventon hou lot treet N Whiting lots in two buildi tile $2 Newington, $6¢ on 200; book account other total 500 e 2,000 and 1ucident the to $17 items bringing 966.47 FISHERY INVESTIGATION, From Glouchester Wiy A Lobstermen Trying Yo 1 xplain es Soar, Bostan March i9 lobstermen appeared special legislative com- h is investigating the tish to explain why the has been advanced wrings fishermen from ports deeclared of had put prices ap the charge that bination among men came port the that the proii new selling them only a slight return estments and labor. wa ph delegation Tepre to- day mission hLigh price At recer Glouchest that the made it Denial was this was duc dealers, here with contention margin rate gave on their in The commission investigate e dusiry enting before wh of 1o he and cost sther increused cost har necessary to made of and tl lohste evidence heretorore to at the mpowered the ory in- WISCONSEN [} Stite’s neatovial of ction Regarded Test M rinations tarted Wisconsin's Joseph i oyalty Nation. N ukee, reh 19.- > contest United The elec- test of nittion federal rles rian on the democratic Irvine Len- war La re the Ber- for part States tor today LIty being a 1oy 1o the Davis, former Di trade comn uind ) 1t torn Thomp. candidate, Victor L, ist field. o ettc idate the sci LOSS I8 8 M $10,000 FTIRL Milford at which the sample port Wood fire the origin of whi determined, arted in of the huilding burning out the upper floors and a large part of the finished The plant is now owned by Dupont 10,000, New 19 nated irch Was caused last night partially burned department of the Bridge- Finishing Co., here. The has net been the upper part Loss es- by a ‘,,.. Co. i 1 DI 1 Botany ¢, N. J., which Low ANS STOE York, March treasure t tlans Stoehr, Worsted flgured investi 1 died Attorney teneral - Ve into an ra N wool hoarding scheme ves- ' operation e was 41 v Germany. for old ap- and s ; Patrol i I ---En Befor ANTI-AIR ECRETARY TO STA New Chamber of | Commerce / tive Comes te¢ This City With Execus Excellent Qualifications. | Leon A. Sprague, the new execu- ! tive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, will arnive in this city | April 1, to take up his new duties in the organization. Secretary Sprague comes here well recommended and the directors and members of the or- Asso- | that he will in him Chamber vnder hi confident entrusted ganization 1ill creditable are the duties in-a and the prosper manner, of Commerce will qui Mass. ition in n A completed the e s of Till, e edu natiy received He Dartmouth B. degree in a post Harvard Law worlked Walker Francisco, his rad with ¢ 1907 then graduate s in school - two vears the be as assistant \dvert in San Cal., was employed with the Puget T & Light companys vears ago, the Stone & Web- mpany tendcred Mr, Spragu flatteving offer to become of the New London office of necticu PPower company. filling this berth. ent of the New' London Commerce, and is the or- and president of the New London Rotary club, He is a member of New London War Bureau, the commitice on clations to foreign population commercial — economy commitice and the housing commit- te 1 of company anager ing later he nd Four ster, retion a manager He Sprague is at present M. ce presi Chamber of ganiz fivst the FOR DRAFTEE 19.~Plans to train Class 1-A under the may be fitted for regiments, were Wentworth In- titute with the approval of the war department A 12 wi course will e given like that by which a Massa- chusetts National Guard unit was treined as an engineer reziment last year. The students also will be taught machine gun emplacement and repairing. TARRED AND FEATHERED. H. B. Myers of I W. W. At Yakima is Then Ordered Out of Town. TRAININC Boston, March aen registered in C draft law so they 1vice in engineer mounced today by Yakima, Wash., March 19.—H. B. Myers, secretary of the Yakima local of the I. W. W., was taken a mile out of town by a mob early today and given a coat of tar and feathers, told 1o leave and not to return here. Myers also was told to warn his associates that any other secretary of | the I. W. W. who came here to work would receive the treatment accorded Little in Montana. Little wias hanged by a mob more than a year ago, in Butte, Montana. CARS DERAILED. Bristol, March 19.—Traflic over the east bound track of the New Haven road at Doolittle’'s Crossing here was blocked today by the derailment of five heavily loaded box cars of freight train, the track being torn up for a distance of about 100 vards. Spreading rails caused thc accident. Trains are being detoured the west bound track between wnd Terryville. over Bristol and | the Con- | n—A\ L From Obtained ¥ ic Tempy Footing—Three Gevman Plane stroyed Bl Wi March American fron the cons j\«u | | | niere Seich n e mm, onei | nun | fles | Jumr snipc shots t and Six Badly Damag iss and Sims at War Council th th is American (By Army in Frf Associated F the towns the artiller t bombarded enemy lines rivble > dropped. ped on today W several oceaf On ider number The projectiles Americans on Ge me 1 of I h American shells hit in Vo otl n (bey encoun ot patro Jury wood Fleury) patrol early half the to malkc but ¢ s weod and nemy today. American of the enemy result, and a some without of fights urr ping from ma althoug with pistols an Germans to trec Ame] number of | occ as the troc a ref T de a oday and Germans were to fall Tk enemy shell ESY crossed that T of t and \1 with A1 trooy | down a strik tent fron | London, | chief Adm | erati the the Lo man | were {an o | by B lon s | tonig Imob Lo troops carried last Vacq capt war trenches raided by enemy street last e Ameri ) ni n shones W tapped 4 r from v occurred. number merican lines were patrol artillery s at e well h encounter fired a o lines. our weather last night for and suited aerinl work \ccomplished runs drove ¢ t veraft 1t rpl: whil a the they were 1st night \meriean Cerman 7 lines out such I from th crossed o Soon aft urplanes ines flashes ection seen the dic et the Germans second line. st line in of abandd accurate A something to their this ' American patrol composec deleted ) the rly today rmans whal the = Intey on )s (name Luneville ¢ by th in G harr: the fire wered mg among wrtillery t all party proceeded At Supreme War Council, March 18 General J of the American staff, and iral Sims, chief of the naval ons in the war zone, repre: United States at the meeting supreme war council in Do week Off German Planes. ndon, March 18.—Eighteen machines were destroyed, 4 driven down out of control bservation balloon was d r ritish aviators in the air fig] unday an official state: ht d(ndm with the aecrial ajf on the western front. sh Take Prisoners. March 19. out successful night near Villers-Guislain, uerie and Bois Grenier, ared @ number of prisone office announces. “The ene! st of Neuve Chapelle Portuguese troops, Drive Br ndon, brought back prisoners and two chine guns. “During temp and with consi ity ir Pa { fighti | dun state: | there tions ing. On were a ballo viat Gern An Judg Chile | German:s on Mz the ni three Bois enier, loss in each derable hostile A hi the ids mear leur| but was repul There artillery the forward and back enemy ted case a areal the Ypres sector.” More Fighting at March 17 in progress tonig P Verdun, irtil the i’ ol On gian 1 severe les before were expelled from p) where iined a f ris, ng front, ment were Heavy says s e ug they had thre our on Sunday destroved badly by on was set ors 1an arch German six others pilots. A capl fire oue of It is learned that two of planes were brought dde 15 and 16. Abmassador Shea Arrives, Atlantic Port, March Joseph 1. Shea, of TIndil United States ambassador! rrived on an American ste (Continued On pl a4 by o Ninth 19