New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW B ITAIN H { ERALD! HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINES! —=a PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDA ESTABLISHED 1§ ORI ERSS 1918. —TWELVE PAGES. AMERICA REMAINS DEFIANT; | NO HALT IN MEN AND FOOL Secretary Daniels States No Interruption in Flow of Soldiers and Munitions Will R sult From U-Boat Raids—Naval Fieet Hunting Down Submarines PRUSSIANS FAIL TO GAIN BY BLOWS AT ALLIED MAIN LINE ~ Four Spots on French Front ! Selected by Enemy for Attack But All Prove Im- pregnable. AMERICAN BAYONETS DRIVE ENEMY BACK . Brilliant Dash By Pershing's Men Routs Foc Northwest of Chateau- Thierry—I¥eavy Machine Gun Fire Only Makes Yankees More Deter- mined to Win—Fight After Al Night Ride. Par J tinued June 5.—The attacks last evening and night battle war office announced tod Attempts made on the F) Wood, ne! Germans con- Jocal the the during front, on the main ench ling arlepont the Dommiers, (Corc and in hhorhcod of Cheay failed. In the region north of Corcy an ac- the ¥ isted recti line on of tion by by tan the borde rench infantry, @ ied the French the forest. Raid British. German troops raid the Morlan- Amiens, Germans to London, June 5. this morning attempted to Dritish lines southwest of court, in the region east of the war office announced today. Al- though the enemy was supported by heavy artillery fire he was repulsed and left prisoners in the hands of the British. Yankee Bayoncts Drive Enemy Back. With the American Army : Tuesday, June 4, (By Press)—The American troops thrown into the present great battle on the front Northwest of Chateau-Thiery in a brillian bayonet attack, drove the Germans from Veuilly wood, in which the enemy attempting to estab- lish himself after occupying the vil- lage of Veuilly-La-Poterie in severe fighting. The Germans chine gun fire into the American ranks, but the Americans rus for- ward and destroyed the hastily erect- ed machine gun positions on the edge of the woods. Continuing their ad- vance they engaged the Germans at close quarters and cleared them en- | tirely from the positio: (‘.ri\’hig{ them back upon the ruined villages. In a sharp combat, marked by the fierceness of the allied machine gun French and American troops, ing side by side, almost wiped mall German forces which had ched the left bank of the Marne Jaulgonne, east of Chateau- Thierry. Mos of the enemy survi vors were rounded up in small groups and made prisoners. On Monday in the attack agai the Germans at Veuilly the Ameri- cans drove them back one and a half kilometers on the front of a narrow salient. The sround was cleared of the enemy and the Americans are now holding their position there. The American losses, according to the latest reports available, were ex- ceedingly light, most of them result- ing from shell fire. The first Americans to enter the battle zone were troops of a machine gun battalion. They rode cn trucks during all of Friday night and ar- rived at their new position' on Satur- day mornir These were the troo which repulsed the enemy which tempted to cross the Marne river. The machine gunners were sta- tioned within a certain town and be- gan operations by poking the muzzles their weapons through broken s, bushes and holes knocked in side of houses ‘Dhe guns were skillfully hidden and the Germans were unable to locate them, The temmansg shelled the town heavily and the Americans took mositiens accord- ingly. Later on the enemy ecntered in France, Associated was poured a heavy ma- at- | Davi HARTFORD OFFIGER IS TAKEN PRISONER Lieut. Benjamin C. Byrd Was Previously Reported Missing 110 ON 7CASUALTY LIST Western States Figure Prominently in Killed-in-Action Roll—Five Connec- icut Soldicrs Mentioned in the War | Department Statement. Wa casualty shington, —The contained as follows: June today army list names, divided Killed in action, 39; died of wounds, 13; died of 3: died of d case, 6; wounded severely, 47; missing rceident, in action, 2 Officers W Captains named were Ber- c: Colonel Clayton, Salisbury, N. Harry A, Bullock, Cam- Edward O. Fleur, Des Moines; Lieutenants Clarence Green, Winterset, Iaw Richard Mortimer, Jr., Tuxedo 'k, N. Y., killed in ac- tion; Lieutenant Howard R. Smith, New Castle, Ind., died of accident; Lieutenant Abram P. Craddock, Lynchburg, Va.; Adam P. Dam- Philadelph Walter T. o, and Frederick August Westphal, Providence, s v wounded: Lieutenant Ralph Noble, Galesburg, Ill., missing in ac tion; Lieutenants Benjamin C. Byrd, Hartford, Conn., and Robert Baker McDowell, Jersey City, prisoners, pre- viously reported missing. The list: Killed Action. Colonel Bertram Clayton, Sal bury, N. C.; Captains Harry A. Bul- leck, Cambridge, Mass.; Fleur, Des Moines, lowa; Clarence Green, Winferset, lowa; chard Mortimer, Jr., Tuxedo Park, N %5 Willie Murray, Newfounc ; Jesse 1. Tillman, Creston, als Walter J. Dixon, Mattson, Kipling nk W. Orr, Des Moines, Bugler ¥red N. Davis, Lorime Cook Joseph Downs, Kinmundy, Privates Nicola Alongi i Sigurd O. And- Towa; Claude City, lowa; Oscar Towa; Carl R. Bev- Towa; Frank R. Tow Lloyd P. Md.; Otis tram K. Towd; Towa; s Ita son City, Mason Dubuque, Dubuque, Red Oak Coulborn, Salisbur 5 Craig, Cedar Rapids, Towa; Bruce Croft, Winterset, lowa; Eugene IFord, Winterset, Towa; Wiliford Funder- burk, Durand, Ga.: Lloyd W. Gettys, Stuart, Towz; Smith Hann, Winter- set, Towa; Gladstone C. Hewitt, Cres- Admiral D. Hul , Re- William Kellisch, Fairview avenue, Lancaster, Martin Lizdas, Waukegan, II1 . Meyer, New York; Ernest F. nor, Thornton, F ; Merle L. Nau- man, Arispe, Towa; Joseph H. Pfab, Dubuque, Towa; Everett Powers, Car- lisle, Towa; Jessie R. Salsbury, Pat- terson, Towa; Clemens W. Schuster, Dubuque, Towa; arl G. Shaw, Du- Luque, Tow Arthur C. Van Dyne, Californ Pa.; John Zauisza, 91 William strect, Middletown, Conn. Died of Wounds. Sengeant Gordon E. Perry, Creston, Towa; Corporals Carl J. Lechner, Cedar Falls, lowa; James C. Shea, Roslindale, M: Cook Everett C. Nora Springs, Towa; Private: Clemmie Atkinson, Denmark, Ore. Holly Coffee, Morgan, Ky.; Samuel Hazard, Atlanti Towa; Wayne Huxtable, Le Towa; John Saunders, G bert, Ford City, Pa.: Pr ‘A, Stal Council Bluffs, D, Thayer, Milford, Conn, Died of Diseasc. Dudley Patnode, Privates Frederick Flushing, N. H Mars, Corporal James Port Henry, N Y.; Joseph Dondero, (Continued on Sixtn Page) (Continued on Sixth Page) 110 § COMPARATIVELY FEW YOUTHS REGISTERED { Only 240 Enrolled Up to 1 0’Clock This Aiternoon MANY ALREADY ENLISTED rst Estimate of Draft Boards was | | | That There Would Be About 700, But this Numbcr Now Scems to Be High, The* registration of young men who 21 last have become vears of June 5 of year smoothly in both the fir districts today,” although district does the number of registrants age > proceeded t and second has in neither pear to approximate the estimated Originally the draft board officials estimated that between 700 and $00 men would register, but at 1 o'clock today, after the registra- tion booths had l:een open six hours, including the busy noon hour, only but 240 had registered in the entire city, The registration open until 9 o'clo second district reg corridor of city hall on the second floor, while the first district board has quarters in Skritulsky’s block on Broad street and on the top floor of city hall. The second district com- prises the second, fourth and sixth wards, while the first, third and fifth warders are in the first district, Al- though the number of registrants who had appeared up to 1 o’clock nv: surprisingly small, it possible that this evening there will be a big rush number. places will tonight. rars are in be The the are employed at factories where they work on a bonu tem and would prefer not to hreak in on their work- bonus. Also, there are a very number of young men who are 21 years of age who have enl voluntarily before the call for tration came and such man required to register, Only a Few Alicns. In the first district Chairman A. Corbin stated that in the fifth war aliout half of the total number registrants are aliens, but in other wards the percentage of aliens is low. In the second district there are comparatively few aliens registered and a large those who are not full fledged citizens have at least taken out their fi pape There are isolated cases however, of aliens, both friendly and enemy. One young man who re tered today only recently arrived in this country from Sweden. Another has lately arrived here from Italy and although the registrants are not ques- tioned as to their ideas of war this man expressed a keen determination to fight under the flag of America. At 1 o'clock about 135 men had re- gistered in the entire first district, while in the second district the count was 105. Chairman Corbin of the first district expressed some surprise at the figures, but would not venture an opinion as to what the total would be, although he did say that prev- iously he had joined with other offi- cials in expecting a new class of about 700. In the secoud district about 200 more, or a total of 300 men, pected before the office closes. Anticlipating a wall from the gov- ernment shortly, which will clasgsif; the new registrants along industrial ®grounds, the second district board to- day had each registrant fill out an “industrial qualification” card which (will be used later. This system was not carried out in the first district, however. large now ed are is NORWEGIAN SHIP SEIZED. Washington, 5 Nor- sundasund which Mmad a German safo conduct, has been {{captured b .June Che wegian steamship 12 taken to Swinemunde ag a pri vices to the state department day. The ship was on its way Stockholm with a cargo of herring consigned to the Swedish Food com- mission. inasmuch a many of the younz men ! ing hours and thereby forefeit their | ol regis- | not being | majority of | a German submarine and | MINE REPORTED THICK IN DELAWARE WATERS Lewes, Del., June 5 prevail here that the Gemman U-boats which raided coastwise shipping on Sunday and Monday have strewn the Delaware Bay and the waters around the Dela- i ware Capes with floating mines, Ten mines have Leen found, it reported, and government mine sweepers are searching for others No confirmation of these reports can be obtained from government official; Shipping has been held up for the present, no vessel being al- lowed to leave without permission of the naval authorities. —Reports 'MURDER AND SUICIDE IN MILLDALE BLOCK Boarder Shoots Woman and Then Fires Shot Through Own Heart. June 14 Stasmania, 5.—Semon Zat- k, aged shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Zlatlznot- nick, aged 24, wife of John Zlatlznot- nick, and then killed himself, night. The woman died this { ing. She had received two bullets through the breast. The man ended his life with a single bullet through the heart, The affair took znotnick flat on four tenement Southington, | zwi place in the Zlatl- the second floor of house at Milldale Park, two miles from the center of the town. There were no witnesses, and the story was obtained by Dr. Stedman, the medical examiner, from the woman before death came. Zat- zwick boarded with the Zlatlznotnicks The husband works nights in a br: shop at Mixville. The boarder had shown no attention to the woman, but last night be entered her room. s:reamed and the man shot her { then shot himself. Tenants aroused, | McCabe and Cons | son, and sent for Sheriff able G. P, Thomp- The man’s body was viewed as soon as Dr. Stedman could reach the place and sent to an sent to the husband s he missed the last trolley car from | Mixville he did not arrive before his wife had died. He said that he had f‘no cause for complaint against the | hoarder ‘who wa n old friend. The | couple had no children, All the parties are Austrians and they had lived at Milldale Park three or four years. s FIVE KILLED IN TUNNEL TRAIN CRASH Passenger Train Hits Light Engine on Line Between Cambridge and Burlington, Vt. Burlington, Vt., June 5.—A collision between local passenger train and a work train on the Central Vermont railroad, between this city and Winoo- a ski, today, killed five persons and in- | jured several others. Seven persons were removed to hospitals. None of the dead was a passenger. The accident occurred in a tunnel when the south-bound local from Cambridge for Burlington ecrashed head on, into a work engine running light. It was claimed that dent was due to mistake in orde for the passengor train should have been held at Winooskl until the worl engine had passed north. the acci- WEATHER. J Hartford, ne Hartford and vicinity: F tonight and Thursday; slight- Iy warmer tonight. She | undertaker's. | but | ALL EXCEPT 10 PASSENGERS ON LOST CAROLINA ACCOUNTED FOR Ten Newly Commissioned Officers of U. S. Army Given Only Passing Notice by U-Boat Captain. SKIPPER SILENCED WIRELESS APPEAL Commander of Submersible Promised Immunity From Attack If Operator Stopped Flashing S O S—Auxiliary Schooner Samuel C. Mengel Sunk 174 Miles Off New York, Refugees Report, 5.~—All but 10 of aboard the New Rico liner Carolina, submarine, have been ac- counted for, officers of the line an- nounced this morning. These figures were arrived at by checking up the names of the pas- sengers 'who arrived here today on a schooner and those +who reached Lewes, Del, and Atlantic City, N, J., vesterday with a list of passengers, furnished by Captain Barbour, com- mander of the vessel. The names of the missing, it was said, would be given out later. mes of the crew are also being ichecked up, New Submarine Victim. The American auxiliary schooner Samuel C. Mengel is another victim of submarine attack. She was sunk { Sunday afterncon, 175 miles off New York, and 11 men of her crew were brought here today by a Danish steamship, The Mengel, according to the crew, was on her way to New York with cargo from the West African wcoast. The vessel was sunk by bombs after the men had taken to the boats at the command of the U-boat com- mander, The Samuel C. Mengel was a vessel of 915 igross tons and was built in 1916 at Bath, Maine, her owners of record being the Axim Transportation Co. New York, June the 2 passengers York and Porto sunk by a U-Boat Hunts a Bargain. “Don’t use your wireless won't shoot,” is the newest “made in Germany” war slogan under which the emperor’s submarine commanders are carrying their campaign of frightfulness into American waters, according to persons among 250 sur- vivors of the steamship Carolina who were brought to this port aboard a coastwise schooner early today. Stories told by passengers and crew of the sunken vessel indicated that dwin W. Vogel of New York City the ship’s 19 year old chief wireles operator, played a spectacular part in the dramatic raiding of the Caro- lina. When the submarine messaged the “Use mno wireless—we won't shoot,” Vogel defiantly rpeeated his S O S signals, which he had already begun flashing and was on the ver of answering queries from Cape May and Brooklyn navy yard stations for the Carolina’s position when Captain T. R. D. Barbour, Vogel’s commander, ordered him tc quit his key and see whether the Germans would keep their pledge, passengers declared. Captain Barbour said he decided to accept the proposition laid down by the U-boat skipper because believed dissent would have forfeiture of the lives of the women and children aboard the waylaid ves- sel. Sang “Star Spangled Banner.” After abandoning ship, reaching here said someone in a life- boat began whistling “The Star Spangled Banner” and it was instantly taken up by those in other boats the men joining in the whistling and many of the women singing the words of the national anthem. Veteran mariners who superintend- the allotting of lifeboats to those the Carolina declared the cool- and expedition with which the wi omplished was remark- able, ¥Few women became hysterical, they declared, and most of these col- lected their wits under the rebukes and we survivors ed on ness task (Continued on Seventh Page) he | meant | Airmen Photograph marines hereafter may come to no check on the flow of men and Daniels said today. has been accomplished the road open.” heard from. had concluded that the German €er; by same dispatch brought the news schooner, the Edward Baird, Jr the Radioleine, was PRESIDENT APPEALS AGAIN FOR MOONEY Writes to Governor of California Urg- ing Pardon For Labor Leader Convicted of Murder. ‘Washington, June 5.—President Wilson has written a second letter to Gov. Stephens of California, urging the pardon of Thomas J. Mooney. The president asked for clemency for Mooney in March, but Gov. Stephens replied that he could not act until an appeal for the convicted man had been passed on by the courts. The ! courts have refused the plea. Mooney was convicted of complic- ity in the bomb explosion that killed ten persons during San Francisco’s preparedness parade, July 22, 1916. MINISTER EGAN RiSIGNS esentative of m Famous Diplomatic Rep America to Denmark Gives Health As Reason, ‘Washington, June —Maurice Francis Egan, United States Minister to Denmark, has tendered his resigna- tion to the state department, owing to ill health. The resignation will be accepted. Mr. Igan had been minister to Den- ark since June, 1907, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt. Minister Egan's lensthy service at the Danish capital made him a fayor- ite with the Danish royal family. He an author of note. TRY TO SLIP JEWELS OF CZARINTO U. S. A. Romandoff Gems, Valued at $2,000,- 000 Were to Be Smuggled Into This Country. New York, June plot to smuggle into America the crown jewels of the dethroned Ro- manoff dynasty, stones valued at $2,- 000,000, is Lelieved it is said to have heen discovered by United States cus- toms officials, it has been learned here today. —An alleged KUNZ TAKEN AWAY, Jehn Kunz, who was sentenced the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., cently in the United States court, for making seditious remarks about the sovernment, and who received a sen- ttence of one year and one day, left to re- in custody of a deputy marshal this afiernoon for Hartford to commence the trip to the prison, Washington, June 5.—Whatever the marine raid off the Atlantic coast and whatever number of Pursuit Moves F arthe; South, in Belief S mersibles Have Gone in that Directic New York in Darl ---Attack on Transatlantic Tanker Fai purpose of the American waters there will munitions to France, Secrg “The great duty of our navy,” said he, “is to keep ope: door to France; to carry our men and munitions to the greatj tlefront and to guard food supplies for our belligerents. thus far and we will continue to The navy department had no further advices at noon from the patrol fleet hunting down the submarine that was| Concentration today of American naval forces off the N land coast followed the receipt of advices by the navy depa that German undersea craft, having sunk a probable total 4 vessels off the New Jersey shore, had yesterday transferred scene of their depredations further south. Just as naval offf raiders had left American for the home port there came the news that a French tank s saved from destruction early yests an American destroyer 65 miles off the Maryland coast. that there has been added an| ., to the list of submarine vig The Baird was found in a taondition by the destroyer, tcok on board two of the schi survivors. The Baird of 279 tons, hailing from Wj ton, Del. No report had bed ceived early today as to the other members of the schj crew, and it was not known other additions would be madg list of 58 persons believed tof been lost when the steamshig line was shelled and sunk. First Shot at Transatlantic In attacking the Radiolein German raiders made their fi tempt to sink a transatlantic The navy department dispateh that the tanker was later o having reached an Americs Transfer of the scene of tions from the waters off Ne: to the Maryland region was by navy department officials that the large number of pat sels, seaplanes, and othe; which went out in search raiders when the first news sinkings was received Monda; ing had made it too uncom for the enemy in the northef Naval forces from Nof peake Bay were toda; more on the alert than yeste liopes of hunting down the While no official announceme heen made, it was indicated army aviators' service had jd the search. U At Least Two € a Navy department officialg ter reading the stories toldd} vivors, were somewhat inclin vise their previous views ag: Leing only one submarine @ the raid. The survivors' storde to establish the theory there lea two U-boats, and ident two craft as the U-37 and thdl Officlals today declared work of the raiders thus far § a failure in that the tonna stroyed in the sinking of thi vessels reported only about tens, and that what Dbelid have been the primary namely the creation of a def the American people for thy of American craft fighting sufd abroad, had been completel ed. Submarine da at this time to government was @ nb; is is not ustify advi marine insurang the treasury announced todi rate on life insurance for off) crews of merchant vessels en truflic through the war zone| dvced today from 25 cents to per $100 rated before the rine attacks off the Atiantie New York, June 5—TUlpon sults of photographic observa tained Ly army aviators, W over darkened New York Ia will be determined the qu further darkening the city caution against possible Ger raids, it was stated today. signs and all lights, excep| lamps and lights in dwellin| out last night by order of Pol (Continued on Eleventh