New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN ERALD HERALD “ADS” MEAN ' BETTER BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1876, PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1918. —TEN PAGES. Break Up Violent Attack Between Bouresches and Belleau Wood, Inflicting Heav ~ Losses and Retaining Ail Gains Previously Made---French Deliver Stiff Blow ERICANS ST IN MARNE F CYCLONE HITS WEST END OF CITY; N GERMANS ONT ASSAUL] | HOUSES MOVE; GARAGES TURN OVER; | . 300 TREES PROSTRATED BY STORM ot L | e ! — ! — ' Supply Reduced S i Volks Zeitung L Loss ol | G Attempting to Flee Find | Wholesalers' Supply Reduced| Damage From Storm Esti mated at $100,000—Roofs | Volks Zeitung Laments Loss ol Germans Attempting to Flee Fin | i ' i arri ir—Pi ‘ ican Blacklist; Path Blocked With Shell One-Hall by New Order Ripped Off and Carried Through Air—Pillars Blown (ommerce hy American Blac m‘t ath Blocked With Shells T S g T v —— | —_— — Off Verandas—Chicken Coops Carried Away—Near | | ics i : | OFFSETS CONQUEST BY ARMS GLAD T0 BE CAPTURED MUST FEED BOYS ACROSS, Panics in Theaters. ) | . . e | _ Stock at Beef Boxes Ixhausted and | BLAZING TROLLEY WIRE IN CENTER; Shipbuilding Yards, Docks and Vast n Military Clique Planning to A . g } Maritime Investments Gone lor- End War by Fall, P ers Sa; Little Slaughtering Being Done— LIG ¥ ie 1 “nd War by Fall, oners Say— AGHTING AND PHONE SERVICE HIT i e, ; R aneatcais AN TEISh) o) Thetr ] ever—Seizure of German Estates | Scarcity of Officers Emphasized by Menu. | During e cyclone Wednesday rate, possibly nearly miles an hour,| Added Cause for Gricf Their Statements. afternoon one person, Patrolman Wil-| “It was not the speed with which| Washington, June 13.—In the| With the American Army in Fr: Meatless d in New Britain Will | jjum O'Mara, of the police department, | the cloud traveled that impressed me, | crushing out of Germanism in the | U5 (DY The Asiociateq Bi probably become compulsory throu { received a painful cut on his head | but rather the whirling and whipping | United States, the Koelnische Volks |YuRe 12 (By The “““‘Ld_ WSS)-‘ lack of supply. At the beef boxes in | ,nq six stitches were required to close | of the cloud. There was no doubt in | Zeitung sees a disaster in measure | The excellence of the American artil- tiiefcitygrodayglifvas “‘“,““',““l‘:‘_ the | the wound. Women living within the | my mind about its being a cyelone,” | halancing the Teutonic military suc- |lery fire was largely responsible for supply of fresh beef is practically ex- | area of the storm were prostrated by | said Rev. Mr. Cook cess. An official dispatch from France | the capture by American marines of hausted and the supply has been cut igjoh( Na other personal injury was; The cyclone passed over New Brit-|today commenti uponil B eesTniS G ISRl S down by order of government officials { qone. The property damage will be|ain going in an casterly direction. discussion in the German press of | APProXimaten e one-half. ’ g labout $100,000, when reckoning in i Garage and Auto Turncd Turtle. events in the United States quotes the | fighting which resulted in the clearing <A representative of (he Armou the value of the 300 or more beautiful R el is e ues ik ; Volks Zeitung as follows: out of the Belleau Wood, northwest of g - Rl e e A garage with an auto in it, the Go. said their source of supl trees ruined the hwina Bmnel prons e e B et e haTas “Mr. Wilson hopes to succeed in|Chateau-Thierry. The Germans, who been reduced one-half and there orty da nearly esthwas [ i T el s 4. | crushing the German clements. Heo | p. Y & A L ad o s e i U nodrly S st Ma s , was overturned. | CLushing tb i Rl i had been told to avoid capture because o fresh bee considerable. The force of the ¢¥- | phe building was almost completely | Will succeed he German press is| . et : s nieat have arrived this week. A car|cjone d its damagi WeEE ot (o cliened | ann (he snte. bl olreany senrly censhod o of exwy | f2 SUiSEICane mould Horcure jtheom), i expected today or tomorrow. The halt-dozen or more | wreeked. The door of the sarage way | ence in America. The greater part of | started to run after the American ma-~ usual requirement is \xo.l.\n]‘ B b eotl; 11 types of build- | plown 00 feet onto the roof of Fra the German schools are closed. The | chine gunners had made the wood un- 75 catile weekly. Under t e ,.n]«‘l ' if they were SO | [, Johnston's house. German associations are required toltenable, but the artillery barrage was conditio ! supply “:“ Hropabiv| ch paper. Between ine and| Near by was a small wooden shed |Strip themseclves of all vestiges of}so perfect that the Germans were cut not exceed 1 : he sub-4 South Burritt streets the tail of the ev- | yeaq by Mr. Littlehales in the manu- | Germany. It is a complete debacl off from escape. ply of hout the {ejone seemed to have hit hardest. The | tacture of violins. This building, | It is unnecessary to be pessimistic | Among the prisoners are six offi- Lime. ; y two and one-half sto )t C. E. | which is about 18 by feet in size, | to realize that the consequences of | a major, a captain and four pseUh Andrews of Andrews |Andrus on South Bur about | was lifted as a whole from the foun- } Our European victories are in a meas- tenants. All were poorly clad and Bwift & Co,, @ this afternoon th 40 1 5 fect in dimensions, was push- | qation and set down about two feetUre Palanced by the sum total of the had pieces of bread tied to their his normal of between 75 ed aside about two inches, cracking|from the original mooring. Three|l0SSes Wwe have suffered in America. | uniforms with string. The prisoners 100 beef week is cut 50 to 33 the brick foundation. An ell part in | yaluable violins just finished by Mr. |All this cauld hawve been foreseen. | saia they were glad to be captured and per cent The wernment s €OM-fthe rear of the home of George I. | Littlehales were in the shed and they “After the war, Germans will no | gseveral expressed a desire ta go to tho mandecring considerable quantity of imyler at 25 Vine street was torn off | came through undamaged longer be able to enter America; the | United States after the war to live. beef weekly and as the war g0es N janq carried into the front yard. Roofs There w a stack of windows in | Hamburg-American and North Ger- All of Germany’s plans, they added, and more troops are sent across the | of three houses on Black Rock avenue | the yard and thev were lifted and|man Lloyad lines are eutered in tho| callea for ending the war next fall. shortage will be felt more keenly. The | 530 one on Vine street and another | aropped several feet away. black book. Shipbuilding yards and | mhe prisoners were told, they said, use of provisions in place of fresh|gn Lincoln street and part of the| When the cyclone struck, Mrs. Lit- | offices have been sold with the pro-|that the Americans had many negroes beef is urged by the head officials as | Lincoln street school were torn off. | tlehales was trying ta hold an awning | hibition of reselling to Germany after | opposing them. one way of helping to win the war. The whereabouts of the roofs torn |that had been partially blown down, |the war. The American press speaks) - The scarcity of officers in the Ger- The order reducing the meat sup- | from the houses on Black Rock {When windows in the rear of|©°f forbidding Germans to buy ship-|man army is shown by the fact that ply is at the instance of the federal | syenue is a mystery. They could not!the house began to blow in, | Puilding vards. Tt will be the end of | yne of the prisoners, a first sergeant, authorities and its purpose s be located t evening. Parts of tin | she let go. 'The grape arbor in the | German transatlantic commerce. commanded a company. He said this plained in the following despatch | roofs were scattered in the front yard | rear was demolished by trees. IFences| “Besides ihese marvitime forces, | yas a common thing now. All tho from Washington: !of the home of the Misses Whittlesey | separating vards there were blown | German estates representing millions | jrisoners expressed admiration for the “Washington, D. C., June 12.—T0 | a¢ the corner of Grove Hill ana West | down. Cherry, apple, pear and plum | of dollars, stocks of copper, nickel, | fghting qualities of the Americans. meet the needs of 'h)x American and | Main street. The nearest tin roof [ trees, numbering 11 in all, were up- | cotton. leather and chemical products} The barn in which the prisoners allied armies and th vilian popu- | Gamaged in that vicinity was at the|Trooted and blawn in the vard. have been seized and utilized to fab- | ere confined today in the rear of of France, Great Britain and | property of Thomas W. Mitchell on Garage Shifted; Auto Damaged ricate American war the American lines held more prison- the American people Wwere |Vine street, but considerable tin was S . At e = of war than the United States has 3 erious amage v a = i i i ,asked Dy the food administration to- | found curled up in the back yard and | i, (‘(,‘\\,‘;lh',”“i‘ g‘_’: ":gé“’i:c t;‘]“ }‘(“r GERMANY ON VERGE in one building at any time in day to place themselves on a limited | it is presumed to represent what Was | oe's0 South Buriltt steoet. The build more than 50 years beef allowance from now until next|the whole of the house covering. Tti;n '\ "ireeq from its foundation and| OF HUNGER SCOURGE | Comparative quiet prevailed along September. is possible that some of the tin in the |\ G’ nround and left about thres AN the Marne sector. “Householders were requested not sses Whittlesey’s yard came from avie 5 i - Houselolders were reques ot | Mis W hittlesey's yard came from | oot away from the concrete faunda- | Inmates of Orphans’ Home Dying of to buy under any circumstances more | westerly points. Wires were dragsed | tion Iy wag a two-story garage and than one and one-quarter pounds of | down by the' falling trees and on| op.) it settled aftor being shifted it Starvation—Economist Warns of Americans Buried With Honors. Slear beet weekly or onc and one- | Church and Main streets and at the|janqeq on Mr. Cowlishaw's automobile 1 3.—Eight American half pounds including the bone, for |Elm street railroad crossing, crossed | py©C O F 5 CONASIAN S automonye. Wheat Supply Paralysis. S L each person in the household. Hotels | wires caused electrical fires and fite | counoq in, the rear whoels eollapsed ; soldiers, who died of wounds received and restaurants were asked not to jalarms were rung in and added to the ! ;nq the shrings were broken. Paris, Junc 13—Germany, although | g0 o' oo week at Bouresches, serve boiled beef more than two [ prevailing excitement. el e e attacking on the western front, is 3 ¢ Choteau-Thierry, were | meals weekly, beefs more than New Britain's fisst expesience with| oo™y chicren conp, about 10 ‘:\“; starving, s the Echo de Paris. An | northwest o hateau-Thierry, > | one meal weekly and roast beef more ; the stray cyclone was decidedly dam- | root housing Sl ‘m; r,"fl,‘_l,p o 9l article appearing in the Berlin Ar- | buried yesterday with military honors. than one meal weekly. aging to property, and although a| (¢ JCEIRE RAOKE teb chicktens The | heiter Zeitung relates the details of [ The guard of honor —consisted of | Dr. C. S. Witte, who has charge at | miniature of the wWestern variety was| ., e 4 over a four-foot fonee "w‘l ”‘2 children starving to death in an | American marines and a detachment the municipal abattoir, said today |attended with circumstances equally| qimave to the fence or in’{‘(fif“‘ ‘?;‘ orphanage at Zenefort, Thuringia. | of Republican Guards. Representa- that the shortage of beef has mot|as thrilling. chickens and deposited in :":{\ciwsh‘\;& The orphanage was found to have | tives of the French republic and the caused any increase in local slaugh- | C3clone Cloud Discovered. 165 lot about 36 fot noes heen ransacked by its Starving = in- | city of Paris attended the services tering, as might be expected. There el | i Four trees, two of fhem fruit trees| D2tes and physicians who visited the | which were in charge of the Rev. is always some slaughtering going on o Lh‘l“ n: o\:vl«:l “\”mr ‘v:d\m R e e m}:;‘}c place found several of the children | john §. Banks, assisted by Chaplains - e spring and summer the o INOILE, of Sans Gl dbes s APle | cheer skeletons. Tewsal c - but in the spring and swmmer (e on atmospheric conditions and | tree in front, were uprooted. o igely | Flennigan and Coakley. : stock is put out to pasture to fatten . Prof. Fran Hein, the widely 5 wer Sures- stock is ¥ experiences in the west, where he Moves a H The bodies were interred in Sures a0 that nsuel smpunt o€ kil (SYPELRES A WORS TE S S . 8 £ Hues known economist, writing in the Bay- | nes cemetery, which has been dedi- | is considerably reduced. toured giving aviation —exhibitions ! The home of Charles I. Andrus, erischer Zeitung of Munich, Warns | cateq to the American expeditionary | The scarcite of beef is already “\‘»\" mmh"hm‘ ‘-0"‘\‘ ":_rmd :':i": next to Cowlishaw's, was partially | the Germans that the coming Weeks ! s ces The caskets were draped with X Jle in restaurant Menus | storms, speaking 1o Assists “ire | blown from its foundation. The house | v be harder than any that have | i . , e e Imost l(‘h;‘ ,.,1‘ ‘C,‘,’A Chief Noble yesterday afternoon and| wpjen s about 40 by 25 feet ]-\nrio‘\\’n p‘;lsl(-dgq‘:?]rpylor. sses m“ oranesil (ISR etican 19g ang withavrestha e, e O s s less Prlces o |pointing to a pecullarly shaped dark|and one-half stories in helght, was | general paraly in the supply of ""f“’;'"‘ f" ’?‘},Frem’“ Epieramenty) 15hents have been Increased. Even the cloud In the west, hr‘»ffn‘;\-:;\:\g SAW it sorced in a northerly divection. The | wheat. | price of soup has been raised ver | 20 7 ""““”_“j;‘ A e e such a | force of the wind cracked the founda- | ——— e _— | cent at one eating house, the new WA Bl o or the coclons | tion wall, separating the bricks over | : e i s miED cloud they would duck for the cyclone | 5 yi0h and a half from the house KUNZ GOES FR]DAY SHIP LOST s ON SHOAL charge being E = cellar 1id Nelson. They were at the Brady Eleotric and Manufacturing | S!lIS 0 the sround. | - e he Brady Electric and Manufacturing . A < A ha a ree ron WITH DEATH | U foeiomon Comter strest “They | 0% pittions, 290 1120 s | : IN RAGE watched the cloud and in a few min- | ZO% BPTOOMA @ A8 SIONe WAS | New Britain Man Convicted of Scdi- xcrican Steamer Alcor, On Way to | utes darkness settled, the air was filled B ¥ i DS s o Novil. SBootis | R e Tears Off Rear Veranda. tious Ttterances Leaves Tomorrow | FUurope, Grounds Off Nova Scotia | Licut. Church, Yale Graduate, Hurried genuine cyclone,” shouted Damage was done to the rear porch ; and Cannot Be Saved. Vith Back | Nelson, and he said: “Beat It to the | of Charles McIntyre's home on South Ly Ry Rennen 68 AR ! ! To House in Boston With Back | oy, Burritt street. Railings were blown | Fartford, June 13.—Deputy U, §.| A Canadian Atlantic Port, June 13.| Broken in Balloon Accident, | Rev. Cook from Land of Cyclones, | 20WN d‘“"”,"_ section of the roof was | Marshals John Kelleher of this city | —The American steamer Alcor, 3,500 | % 3 carried away. A power boat on skids | and Thomas A. Carroll of Torrington | tc S e e e Warren, O, June 1 Somewherg in “That cloud the makings of a|in the rear vard and a little Work | il start for Atlant Ga Friday | 1 % . the eastern part of the United State: . «32' ne,” remarked Rev. | shed were blown in a northerly direc- { with five foderal prisoners who are to | Dutch steamer, bound from ¢ ew | today a luxurious special train run- W BT ook, w?;‘tur iof Tr\{m\ tion about two feet A fine t'h(-rr\'i,m imprisoned in the penitentiarv | I°ngland port for a transatlantic port ning at top gpeed i, raging with death. i‘}“’”"-‘-“ & hureh, Pl f:\:}!\n tree was Dlown down. | there. . The five are Charles Nygers, | went ashore at a point on the south- | ; e W Churen | Kansas, where cyclones grow, =||MlThe icherry itrcel inlD 1 S Uose NG| s SRR s S e e Jeotia 1 - It iy carryir o . e Cloud 1n thalarooes vt RO | Austrian of this city; George Kowal- fern coast of Nova Scotia in a thick son of John H. Church, a well known | > e A l sky of Iast Harvttord and John Kunz | fo¢ last night and is now breaking up, i S , | sky. He watcheq the funnel-shapedl gireet was laid low and the chimnev S e 7 | Ll | capitalist to his homt in Boston. Young | 550 4% (WIEEE Ll e the e 4 or New Britain, all accused of scording to word rveceived by the | Church, a aduate of Yale and a S ‘\ e e e RlownL TEoc e oo | tious utterances: and two drug Marine und Fisheries department to- | " e Bl e g et he watched the approach he| mhe hoys' house of the Children's | George . Monty, Norwich and s | sEudentioicerigi Mhic SRatlon S COXDEM hiniime miore and more convineed Hof [y muniley el supervisiontot i Reval v t 2 day | trom an army balloon near here |y Fonuinencss of the omen in tho |y Sinden fio uRen s £ Rev | Boreum, wrested in Providence. Tlie crew of 35 was a, suid the | k | # £l Klingberg, wis damaged, bu i | broke hix huack in a high wind | Ho look to shelter merely as | rees in the yard were spolled } HOOhE niessage, which came fom the light- | about six week, ago. Since then he | ier of instinet and more or less| . e e — liouse-keeper on an island near the yeen hovering between life and | unconsciously Nhiae desdbts oo Another Garage Laid Flat. 1 WEATHER. it hich the steamer strand- ath in a hospital here | havoe in the western part of the city \ owned by A. B. Porter In | e . Five foot of water stood in the Last night physicians decided he | following the cessation of the storm, !the rear of his place on Liberty street | Havtford, June 13.—Fore- igine room and she was rap- could be moved to his home and the | he expressed respect far the reality of | was literally laid flat. It was carrled | cast for New Britain and vi- | idly separating. The prevailing wind, trip was begun. Two surzeons and |the cyclone. off its foundation and thrown in the cinity: Fair, cooler tonight. souther ords little or no chance three nurseg accompany the young The cyclone came from a south- I Friday fair. of eaving the ship, the lighthouse- 1 officer, . Awesterly divection ang.went at a rapid (Continugd on Ninth Fage) keeper reported. Petain Strikes at Advancing Forces on Easter Wing of New Front and Hurls Enemy Bac to North Bank of Matz River—Kaiser Cal on All Reserves Now Stationed in East Paris, June 13.—French troops last night struck a heavy ble: against the German forces which have been advancing on th eastern wing of the new front of attack. The war office an nounced today that French had hurled back the enemy to the nor bank of the Matz river. Violent combats continue between Villers-Cotterets forest. The Germans have progressed as far the ravine east of Laversine, north of Cutry. The Germans last night made a violent attack on the Amer; can sector between Bouresches and Belleau Wood, on the Mar front. The Americans broke up the attack and inflicted serio losses on the enemy, holding the gains which they had made. After violent fighting the enemy has obtained a foothold i Couevres and St. Pierre-Aigle. the Aisne river and b Aisne-Marne Attack Breaks Down. Paris, June 13.—The attack southwest of Soissons, on f front between the Aisne and the Marne, has been broken by t violent resistance of the French, says a Havas correspondent, tel graphing from the front. The enemy, he says, has made progre: which is insignificant at a price of heavy losses. In addition, points out, the German advance had been held up for several da; and the morale of the German troops is suffering in consequenc Germans Pushed Off Mery Plateau. London, June 13.—The Germans, at severe cost, continue push down the Matz valley, where an abundance of small wood afford maximum protection for French machine guns and artiller| says Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters, telegrap ing Wednesday. Further west the French have pursued the progress on the Mery plateau and have pushed the enemy the eastern slope into the valley. British Advance Flanders Line. London, June 13.—DBritish troops last night advanced thg lines a short distance on the Flanders front, in the district sout] west of Merris, the war office announced today. The French d this front likewise improved their positions near the Ridge Wor Prisoners were taken in both operations. “A successful daylight raid was carried out by us southeast of Arras”, says the war office report. y casud ties were inflicted on the enemy. One hostile trench mortar w]| brought back to our lines and others were destroyed. During ti night local operation were undertaken by us successfully sout] west of Merris and east of Dickebusch Lake. “In the former sector our line has been advanced a shd distance with little cost and a number of prisoners taken. In t latter area the French troops improved their positions near t Ridge Wood and captured 30 prisoners.” French Control Foe's Communication | tion of the French to retain Paris, June 13.—There was plenty | session of the village. ) of fighting yesterday but it did not The spirit of the offensive wa affect the general situation s the | high among the Allied troops 4 Germans are fighting against time | they continued their advance on this result is a distinct gain to the |Jeft today despite the fatigues defense. had undergone since the beginning The Germans, it is true, made |the week. Another batch of sews slight progress on their left toward | hundred German prisoners Compiegne from which, at Melicooq, | brought in together with maeH they are now only five miles away, | guns. ul but so did the French on the other Huns Call Eastern wing in the region of Mery. Reseryes. As the nature of the ground) Tondon, June 13.—Germany around Mery provides the French | about to withdraw the bulk df with excellent gun positions behind | troops now in Russia for service) hills from which they can pound at| {he western fro according to short ge the road by which all|gatement in Maxim Gorky's nd supplies must pass to the German | panertho potroerad Novais 2 center in the thrust toward Com- | qyoted by the D: ily News corresy piegne, the French can claim an ad- dent at Stockholm. vantage on the day’s operations, for The Novala Zhizn claims to, they also stopped the German efforts | ¢ o o W5 oh ment Br M south of the Ai:j‘“ 2 Talkenhayn, former chief of the ¢ east of Ville OLLer man general staff, which, it sa; Falkenhayn intercepted, in which French Still Hold Courcelles. ;lflr(\s that the iv\‘mo.s o the wes| e iemt In Trance. | front are critical and decisiye) With the F i SR ':‘”‘ > | that in order to insure definite June 13 (By the Associated Press.) | tory and the end of the war the 4 —The defense of Courcelles, on tk left wing of the battle front, by the | French against attacks repeated day nd night from June 9 to June 11} centration of enormous forces wil necessary. “In view of the fact that our trd in Russian and Ukrainian fronts makes a wonderful story of heroism. | i -t = S The village, wh ost important ;"“t‘:‘!‘)“"}“"l:‘]“ mu_‘ ,‘”‘1‘(; o ‘:;‘f owing to its commanding position, | P €5, B BISE LG B Ao was for 48 hours almost surrounded ; e . ¢ by the enemy, but the French held | Eeneral staff to take measiines fo on and when a favorable opportun- | iransportation to Ifance of the ity came sorticd and counte jo of the German forces in Wi ticked, repulsing the Germans from | Russia, Ukraine and Great Rul e leaving there only small detachm The Germans tried every possible | hecessary to maintain order.”” S s The transportation, according to "he growing crops on the|duoted message, was to be effy land in the vicinity were a | Within seven days of considerable trouble to the - i fenders, s the Germans coul’ oo ARk through them until they SIGN PEACE TREATY, reached the edge of the village. The | Amsterdam, June 13.—A enemy also covered their helmets |treaty has heen signed between with clumps of grass and weeds and | key and the Trar aucasus goy) crawled slowly forward. They could [ment, savs a tele A not, however, shake the determina- |inople., s